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Article: What Table Tennis Mean to China (1)

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April 24, 2001
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In China, table tennis sits at the heart of the nation's sporting culture. Xinhua sportswriter Cao Jianjie provides an insider's view of why ten of millions of Chinese are so entranced by the sport.

In table tennis-crazy China, you are excused for not knowing Michael Jordan, Carl Lewis or any other household names of sports in the rest of the world. Only the admission on your ignorance of Rong Guotuan, Guo Yuehua, Deng Yaping or Liu Guoliang invites a laughter, or even a grunt of disbelief.

I invited an American friend and his daughter Alice to watch the women's table tennis World Cup in Shanghai in 1996, the annual event which featured world top 16 players.

"Who is that girl?" Alice ...

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