Yao Ming

What's Gold Got To Do With It: China's Post-Olympic Identity

Chi Tung | Posted 10.14.2008 | Politics

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Chi Tung

Winning more golds than anyone else is exactly the kind of paradoxical achievement that enables New China to keep marching to the beat of its own hollow drum

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Yellow Peril Or Power? China Reconsidered (Again)

Chi Tung | Posted 10.01.2008 | Media

Read More: China Milk Scandal, Journalistic Bias, Yao Ming, Old Media vs. New Media, Chinese Culture, Food Politics, Old Media Death Watch, Chinese Government, Chinese Food, Mao Zedong, China, New Media, Bill Nye the Science Guy, China Human Rights, Chinese Censorship, Old Media, Media News
Chi Tung

American media coverage of China tends to slant one of two ways: toward fat, happy and unquestioning globalization, or small-minded, unblinking provincialism.

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Reading The Olympic Pictures: Slam Dunk On The Earthquake

Michael Shaw | Posted 08.09.2008 | Media

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Michael Shaw

2008-08-09-shaw.jpg This incredible shot illustrates how the Chinese government has been using money and pressure to buy the silence of parents who suffered the loss of their children in the earthquake.

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Bryant May Steal Yao's China Spotlight

Meghan Peters | Posted 08.07.2008 | Entertainment

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Meghan Peters

Naturally I assumed China would be rooting for him during the Games. But I've met several Chinese people here who are backing the U.S. basketball team hands down.

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Blowing Smoke: Olympic Torch Relay Fans May Be Faux

LiLi Tan | Posted 08.07.2008 | Politics

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LiLi Tan

It appears that the jubilant cheering surrounding Yao Ming and China's first astronaut Yang Liwei -- though perhaps sincere -- was staged. "They're actors," the son of a Chinese torchbearer told me.

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Green Olympics: Top 15 Eco-Activist Olympians

Grist | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green

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In this year's Olympics, fifteen eco-activist athletes will champion for their homelands and eco-friendly causes. As UN "Champions of the Environment...

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Olympic Village Opens in Beijing (PHOTOS)

AP | Stephen Wade | Posted 07.27.2008 | Home

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The Athletes' Village for the Beijing Olympics held its official opening ceremony Sunday, an all-Chinese curtain raiser with basketball stars Yao Ming...

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Eager Olympic Sports Fans in China

Hongmei Li | Posted 07.25.2008 | Entertainment

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Hongmei Li

Only the lucky few Chinese can get tickets to watch Olympics games on site. The majority will have to stay at home to watch TV like people in other parts of the world.

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Yao Back in China, Ready for Olympic Action

China Daily | Chen Xiangfeng | Posted 06.27.2008 | Entertainment

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Yao Ming is as excited as anyone about the upcoming Olympics on home soil. But the basketball superstar is worried that, with only 42 days left until ...

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