One of my favorite China hands, Professor Susan Brownell – quite possibly the most knowledgeable scholar out there on China’s sports culture and legacy – presented a paper last week at the University of Southern California on Beijing’s goals for the 2008 Olympics. Reproduced in part at the China Beat blog, she argues that there [...]
George Vescey of the New York Times was there.
One NBA Star and 150 Bridges to Sichuan (NY Times, January 26)
That’s two Vescey columns in three CSB posts that have caught my attention for their excellence. This is a great snapshot of Yao’s relationship with his homeland and his generosity – and a great piece of [...]
Bill Dwyre at the Los Angeles Times has written a great piece on one of the coaches who made Beijing memorable: U.S. men’s indoor volleyball head coach Hugh McCutcheon. He led the U.S. men to the gold medal – one of four medals and three golds that USA Volleyball took home from China – in [...]
It’s been quieter at the CSB than I had planned, but George Vescey of the New York Times wrote a column today that pretty much summed up the reason. It’s hard to think about sports being important when so much of what’s going on in the rest of the world is going wrong. Of course [...]
China Daily reports that Liu Xiang’s medical team has agreed with the opinions of U.S. doctors who say that the injury that forced the 2004 Olympic champ out of the first round at the Beijing Olympics requires surgery. That’s likely to be done in the U.S. as well – and it makes Liu one of [...]
Before the Olympics, the Chinese leadership agreed to sit down with representatives of Tibet’s government in exile to try to work out their differences. Now, word comes that the Dalai Lama himself feels the talks have reached a dead end. That’s frustrating to all who hope for better relations between China and Tibetans – and [...]
Whew.
That was some 2008, wasn’t it? I know it’s not over quite yet – but for me and so many others who pay close attention to the Chinese sports world, the most important date on the calendar was August 8, 2008. The CSB shut down for a bit so that I could concentrate on my [...]
A friend sent me a copy of a poem that is making its way around the Internet about the Sichuan earthquake, written in Chinese by an unknown author and translated by a Toronto-based earthquake engineer named Alex Tang. As much coverage as the earthquake has gotten in the States – including a PSA by Yao [...]
I’ve been blogging over at Sports Illustrated’s FanNation site for the last few months and I’ve checked in over here a bit as well, something I’ll be doing more of in the weeks and months to come. So much of the China-related sports news has been political in the past month that it’s been tough [...]
Wow – what a tough time for the Rockets, sitting on a 12-game winning streak going into tonight’s game against the Washington Wizards.
News clips:
Houston Chronicle
International Herald Tribune
Los Angeles Times
Reuters
United Press International
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