Category: The Great Leap

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About the Playwright

Award-winning American playwright Lauren Yee delved into family history for her basketball diary.

Source: Vancouver Sun
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Mao’s Great Leap Forward

What was the Great Leap Forward? Find out about this tragic time period–millions died of starvation–in Chinese history.

Source: ThoughtCo.
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Why Basketball Is China’s Biggest Sport

Long before the NBA arrived, missionaries, revolutionaries, and communists helped make the game ubiquitous here.

Source: The Atlantic
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The Tank Man

On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a solitary, unarmed protester stood his ground before a column of tanks advancing down the Avenue of…

Source: PBS
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