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作者： Brook Larmer 著

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出版时间： 2005-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 350印刷时间： 2005/01/01开本：印次：纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781592400782包装： 精装内容简介

The 7'5" Yao Ming didn't get where he is today because of some lucky genes and a good three-point shot. Everything about him, from birth to first endorsement deal, was planned by a confluence of government and business interests intent on creating a superstar. Basketball has been popular in China since the late 19th century, so a government with a Soviet-style, militaristic sports system intent on creating world-class athletes thought little of mating its tallest athletes in an attempt to pass on their genes. Thus in 1980, Yao was born to the tallest couple in China, the result of matchmaking that carried with it the dark shadow of eugenics. From there, a government campaign worked to turn "a boy with an ideal genetic makeup into the best basketball player in Chinese history," writes Larmer, and it wasn't long before Nike and the NBA had their hooks in him. Larmer, Newsweek's former Shanghai bureau chief, crafts his narrative well, explaining the byzantine interests competing for their pound of Yao's flesh with admirable simplicity. Yao's story is so controlled that when he finally overcomes his initial clumsiness and starts rebelling against his government at book's end, it's hard not to feel empathy for the gentle giant.

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作者简介：

BROOK LARMER was the Newsweek bureau chief in Buenos Aires,Miami,Hong Kong,and most recently Shanghai,where he now lives.Operation Yao ming is his first book.

目录

Preface

PART Ⅰ: East

1. Birth of a Giant

2. Red Guard Rising

3. Mao's Fallen Star

4. Childhood Denied

5. Cogs in the Machine

6. The Experiment

PART Ⅱ: East Meets West

7. NBA Dreams

8. The New Evangelists

9. Strangers in a Strange Land

10. The Gathering Storm

11. Mavericks and Mandarins

12. Hoop Diplomacy

13. The Battle for Yao Ming

PART Ⅲ: West

14. Soldier Gone AWOL

15. Houston, We Have a Problem

16. Summer of Discontent

17. In Da Club

18. American Idol

19. Generation Next

20. The Flag-Bearer End Notes

Acknowledgments

Index

 

 

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