Firsthand NBA Experience: A Journalist's Notes as the Only Chinese Reporter to Follow Yao Ming Throughout the NBA

Author: Yi Xiahe
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Publish Date: 2004-01-01
Features: Among the swarm of reporters following Yao Ming, Yi Xiahe stayed the longest. Her column in the newspaper became an important window for domestic readers to focus on Yao Ming. And in this new book, those windows have been expanded into a series of doors. Yi Xiahe didn't write Yao Ming as just a part of basketball, like those male reporters who understood basketball. Instead, she used the perspective and style of someone "who doesn't understand basketball" to write basketball as a part of Yao Ming. She opened a world of personality basketball, for herself and for those who love basketball, which was once only her own exclusive realm. The slam dunkers she wrote about were not just ordinary athletes but were human beings with blood and flesh, with souls. The basketball she portrayed was not just a sport but also a culture and a philosophy.