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Operation Yao Ming

Author : Brook Larmer
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101216611
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Operation Yao Ming written by Brook Larmer and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-11-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The riveting story behind NBA giant Yao Ming, the ruthless Chinese sports machine that created him, and the East-West struggle over China’s most famous son. The NBA’s 7‘6" All-Star Yao Ming has changed the face of basketball, revitalizing a league desperate for a new hero while becoming a multimillionaire pitchman for Reebok and McDonald’s. But his journey to America—like that of his forgotten foil, 7‘1" Wang Zhizhi—began long before he set foot on the world’s brightest athletic stage. Operation Yao Ming opens with the story of the two boys’ parents, basketball players brought together by Chinese officials intent on creating a generation of athletes who could bring glory to their resurgent motherland. Their children would have no more freedom to choose their fates. By age thirteen, Yao was pulled out of sports school to join the Shanghai Sharks pro team, following in the footsteps of Wang, then the star of the People’s Liberation Army team. Rumors of the pair of Chinese giants soon attracted the NBA and American sports companies, all eager to tap a market of 1.3 billion consumers. In suspenseful scenes, journalist Brook Larmer details the backroom maneuverings that brought China’s first players to the NBA. Drawing on years of firsthand reporting, Larmer uncovers the disturbing truth behind China’s drive to produce Olympic champions, while also taking readers behind the scenes of America’s multibillion-dollar sports empire. Caught in the middle are two young men—one will become a mega-rich superstar and hero to millions, the other a struggling athlete rejected by his homeland yet lost in America.

Yao

Author : Yao Ming
Publisher : Miramax Books
ISBN 13 : 9781401359836
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book Yao written by Yao Ming and published by Miramax Books. This book was released on 2005-09-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2002, Yao Ming became the NBA's first foreign #1 draft pick and a media sensation. Sports writer Ric Bucher was the only American reporter with unrestricted access to Yao's first year in the NBA. Now available in paperback, Yao: A Life in Two Worlds captures Yao's private story and traces his remarkable journey from Chinese success story to international icon. Whether winning over skeptical teammates, or treading lightly with ever-watchful Chinese officials, Yao reveals the many challenges he has faced with delicacy and humor. Spanning sports, politics, business, and popular culture, Yao's fascinating memoir reveals the humble, profoundly likeable young man behind the myth.

Yao Ming

Author : Jeff Savage
Publisher : LernerClassroom
ISBN 13 : 0761338934
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Yao Ming written by Jeff Savage and published by LernerClassroom. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief look into the life and career of basketball player Yao Ming.

Yao Ming: the Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Most Dominant Centers

Author : Clayton Geoffreys
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781541225268
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (252 download)

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Book Synopsis Yao Ming: the Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Most Dominant Centers by : Clayton Geoffreys

Download or read book Yao Ming: the Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Most Dominant Centers written by Clayton Geoffreys and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-19 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the Inspiring Story of the Houston Rockets' Legendary Center Yao Ming! Read on your PC, Mac, smartphone, tablet or Kindle device! In Yao Ming: The Inspiring Story of One of Basketball's Most Dominant Centers, you will learn the inspirational story of one of basketball's greatest ambassadors, Yao Ming. Yao Ming was the face of the Houston Rockets franchise alongside Tracy McGrady. Throughout the 2000s, the duo led the Rockets in a tough Western Conference. While Yao ultimately was forced to retire early due to injuries, the impact he left on the game at an international level was profound. Yao served in many ways as the bridge for the NBA to gain a viewership in China. Millions would tune into Rockets games to watch the dominant center overpower his peers. In this short unauthorized biography, you'll learn Yao's inspirational story into the league. Here is a preview of what is inside this book: Childhood and Early Years Chinese Basketball Association Career and Yao's Road to the NBA NBA Career Entering the Draft, Rookie Season, The Rise of Yao Ming Teaming Up with T-Mac, The Injury-Plagued Seasons, the Falling Great Wall The Return from Injury, Breaking Past the First Round Missing an Entire Season Short-lived Return, Final NBA Season Yao Ming's International Career Yao Ming's Personal Life Yao Ming's Impact on Basketball Yao Ming's Legacy An excerpt from the book: The east and the west have always been worlds apart in every aspect. Culturally, Eastern countries have always been a lot different from their western. People eat different food, wear different clothes, speak different languages, and have various views about life in general. In the world of sports, the gap only grows larger. Eastern countries enjoy soccer and cricket among other sports, compared to the Americans who prefer basketball and football. However, one man dared to cut the gap between the east and the west, particularly in basketball as his larger-than-life frame acted as the bridge between the two different worlds. Yao Ming is the sole reason that basketball became the language which united the sporting worlds of the east and the west. Historically in China, the Great Wall was constructed to protect the nation's capital from foreign invasion. As long as the Great Wall stood, the country remained secure and harmonious, safe from any outside interference or influence that could have disrupted the people's daily lives. However, the great wall called Yao, as tall and as long as he is, did not shield the country of China away from the foreign influence of basketball. Instead, the wall opened its gates up and allowed a bridge to be created between China and the United States as far as basketball was concerned. The sport has never been as popular in China as it is today thanks to the influences of Yao Ming. While Yao has long acted as a basketball ambassador of Asia to other Western countries, he was a dominated figure in the game itself, just as the Great Wall of China stood as a symbol of strength and dominance for the great eastern powerhouse. From the moment he first stepped foot on an NBA court, and to the final second he played in the league, Yao was always a towering and fearsome figure in the game of basketball. Tags: Yao Ming Bio, Yao Ming basketball, Houston Rockets basketball, tracy mcgrady, shaq, yi jianlian, jeremy lin, allen iverson, michael jordan, kobe bryant, shawn bradley, dikembe mutombo

Yao Ming

Author : Chunfei Xiao
Publisher : LONG RIVER PRESS
ISBN 13 : 9781592650026
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Yao Ming written by Chunfei Xiao and published by LONG RIVER PRESS. This book was released on 2004 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NBA phenom Yao Ming's early years in China.

Yao Ming

Author : Michael Bradley
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
ISBN 13 : 9780761417583
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Yao Ming written by Michael Bradley and published by Marshall Cavendish. This book was released on 2005 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the personal life and basketball career of the Houston Rockets centre.

Yao Ming, 2nd Edition

Author : Matt Doeden
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 146770413X
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Yao Ming, 2nd Edition written by Matt Doeden and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yao Ming is a force on the basketball court. The center, born in Shanghai, China, towers over opponents at 7-foot-6. His strength, agility, and hard work have made him one of the most dominant big men in the NBA today. After leading his Chinese team to a championship in 2002, Yao was the top pick of the NBA draft by the Houston Rockets. His arrival in the United States has helped to break down cultural barriers and has made Yao one of the most recognized athletes in the world.

Yao Ming

Author : Lydia Pyle
Publisher : ABDO Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1617844888
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Yao Ming written by Lydia Pyle and published by ABDO Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of Yao Ming, the Chinese basketball player who is a star with the Houston Rockets.

Yao Ming

Author : Therese M. Shea
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9781404255388
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (553 download)

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Download or read book Yao Ming written by Therese M. Shea and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2005-12-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the personal life and basketball career of the Houston Rockets center.

A Floating Chinaman

Author : Hua Hsu
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674967909
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book A Floating Chinaman written by Hua Hsu and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Floating Chinaman is, in the broadest sense, a book about who gets to speak for China. The title is taken from a lost manuscript by H.T. Tsiang, an eccentric Chinese immigrant writer who self-published a series of visionary novels in the 1930s, a time when China was recast as a rich, unexplored mystery to the American public. At this time the United States "rediscovered" China, and the book traces its causes and cues in a variety of sites: the comfortable, middlebrow literature of Pearl Buck, Alice Tisdale Hobart and Lin Yutang; the journalism of Carl Crow and Henry Luce; exuberant reports from oil executives proclaiming a new era in global trade. On the margins--in Chinatowns, on college campuses, in the failed avant-gardism of Tsiang--a different conversation about the possibilities of a transpacific future was taking place. The book is about the circulation of ideas about China; but it is also a book about writers, rivalries, and the acquisition of authority. It is about the creation and refinement of those ideas, as well as the spirit of competition that underlies all critical endeavors. These were decades when China represented a new area of inquiry, and the stakes for writers to flex their expertise were at once intellectual, professional, and deeply personal. The author considers a range of texts--from best-sellers to self-published paperbacks, travel literature to corporate newsletters, FBI surveillance files to flowery letters from an Ellis Island detention center--and considers the competing notions of a transpacific future that animated the literary imagination as well as some satisfying moments of revenge."--Provided by publisher.

Basketball Basics

Author : Jay Triano
Publisher : Greystone Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 155365451X
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (536 download)

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Download or read book Basketball Basics written by Jay Triano and published by Greystone Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides instructions and skills for developing essential basketball skills, covering ball handling, shooting, passing, defense, and rebounding; includes 140 photographs.

How Does A Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun?

Author : Doretta Lau
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0889712999
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book How Does A Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? written by Doretta Lau and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building on the success of the Journey Prize-shortlisted title story, the stories of How Does a Single Blade of Grass Thank the Sun? present an updated and whimsical new take on what it means to be Canadian. Lau alludes to the personal and political histories of a number of young Asian Canadian characters to explain their unique perspectives of the world, artfully fusing pure delusion and abstract perception with heartbreaking reality. Correspondingly, the book’s title refers to an interview with Chinese basketball star Yao Ming, who when asked about the Shanghai Sharks, the team that shaped his formative sporting years, responded, “How does a single blade of grass thank the sun?” Lau’s stories feature the children and grandchildren of immigrants, transnational adoptees and multiracial adults who came of age in the 1990s—all struggling to find a place in the Western world and using the only language they know to express their hopes, fears and expectations.

The Book of Basketball

Author : Bill Simmons
Publisher : ESPN
ISBN 13 : 0345520106
Total Pages : 754 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Basketball written by Bill Simmons and published by ESPN. This book was released on 2010-12-07 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The NBA according to The Sports Guy—now updated with fresh takes on LeBron, the Celtics, and more! Foreword by Malcom Gladwell • “The work of a true fan . . . it might just represent the next phase of sports commentary.”—The Atlantic Bill Simmons, the wildly opinionated and thoroughly entertaining basketball addict known to millions as ESPN’s The Sports Guy, has written the definitive book on the past, present, and future of the NBA. From the age-old question of who actually won the rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain to the one about which team was truly the best of all time, Simmons opens—and then closes, once and for all—every major pro basketball debate. Then he takes it further by completely reevaluating not only how NBA Hall of Fame inductees should be chosen but how the institution must be reshaped from the ground up, the result being the Pyramid: Simmons’s one-of-a-kind five-level shrine to the ninety-six greatest players in the history of pro basketball. And ultimately he takes fans to the heart of it all, as he uses a conversation with one NBA great to uncover that coveted thing: The Secret of Basketball. Comprehensive, authoritative, controversial, hilarious, and impossible to put down (even for Celtic-haters), The Book of Basketball offers every hardwood fan a courtside seat beside the game’s finest, funniest, and fiercest chronicler.

Unsinkable

Author : Walis Nokan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789869639330
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Unsinkable written by Walis Nokan and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The tumultuous recent history of Taiwan surprisingly gave the islands unusually diverse cultures. People immigrated to Taiwan for all kinds of reasons, from missionaries sent to pass on their gospels, businessmen developing new markets, workers seeking bigger money, to refugees running from wars or dissidents looking for asylum. Thus memories of the lost past are a motif of Taiwanese literature and a powerful approach for writers to deal with issues inconvenient to confront face to face. These issues include regime transfer, political oppression, faiths, sexuality, family values, urbanization, fantasies, misunderstanding, cultural clashes and discrimination. Colonialism and poverty are still living experiences and simultaneously memories to many Taiwanese. In literary works, the (dis)continuation of tradition and values are the ever present focus. In these four stories, the authors have successfully woven layers of messages through intriguing plots, characters and metaphors. With extraordinary artistry, they (re)present elaborate human natures. These are the stories of ordinary people who refuse to succumb to hardship or inequality. They are unsinkable Taiwanese.

Yao Ming

Author : John Hareas
Publisher : Scholastic
ISBN 13 : 9780439591089
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Yao Ming written by John Hareas and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 2003-10-01 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of one of the tallest players in the National Basketball Association follows him from his boyhood in China to his arrival in the United States and his first season with the Houston Rockets.

The Tao of Yao

Author : Oliver Clyde Chin
Publisher : Frog Books
ISBN 13 : 9781583940907
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Tao of Yao written by Oliver Clyde Chin and published by Frog Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a basketball player and international spokesman, Yao Ming has quickly become the eighth wonder of the sports world. Amazing fans, players, and experts with both his surprising performance and down-to-earth personality, Yao has proven to be a refreshing font of contemporary wisdom. But perhaps that is because that Yao's words and deeds are deeply rooted in the ancient Chinese philosophy of Taoism.

100 Things Rockets Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die

Author : Jonathan Feigen
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1641251271
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book 100 Things Rockets Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die written by Jonathan Feigen and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Rockets fans have attended a game at the Toyota Center, have marveled at Hakeem Olajuwon highlights, and remember exactly where they were when Houston became "Clutch City." But only real fans have sat with the Red Rowdies or know about the good luck ritual that preceded some of the team's top draft selections. Whether you're a die-hard from the Moses Malone era or a more recent supporter of James Harden, 100 Things Rockets Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate resource guide for true Houston hoops fans. Beat writer Jonathan Feigen has collected every essential piece of Rockets knowledge and trivia, as well as must-do activities, and ranks them all from 1 to 100, providing an entertaining and easy-to-follow checklist as you progress on your way to fan superstardom.