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Hardcover:
9780415540018 | Routledge, November 13, 2013, cover price $145.00
A behind-the-scenes profile of the Chinese NBA star and the factors that drove his career reveals how his basketball player parents were brought together by Chinese officials intent on creating Olympic athletes, his role as a corporate pitchman, and the struggle between China and America over his NBA draft, in an account that simultaneously traces the life of fellow athlete Wang Zhizhi. 50,000 first printing.
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9781592400782 | Gotham Books, November 3, 2005, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The 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, opens with the story of Yao's parents, basketball players brought together by Chinese officials intent on creating a generation of athletes who could bring glory to their motherland.
Hardcover:
9780714652351 | Routledge, April 1, 2003, cover price $215.00
Paperback:
9780714682143 | Routledge, September 1, 2003, cover price $64.95
Miscellaneous:
9780203500712 | Routledge, October 30, 2002, cover price $54.95
Hardcover:
9780824603588 | Jonathan David Pub, October 1, 1992, cover price $22.00
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