Young yao ming biography book
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Operation Yao Ming
Synopsis
The riveting 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. The NBA’s 7’6" All-Star Yao Ming has changed the face of basketball, revitalizing a league desperate for a new hero while becoming a multimillionaire pitchman for Reebok and McDonald’s. But his journey to America–like that of his forgotten foil, 7’1" Wang Zhizhi – began long before he set foot on the world’s brightest athletic stage.
Operation Yao Ming opens with the story of the two boys’ parents, basketball players brought together by Chinese officials intent on creating a generation of athletes who could bring glory to their resurgent motherland. Their children would have no more freedom to choose their fates. By age thirteen, Yao was pulled out of sports school to join the Shanghai Sharks pro team, following in the footsteps of Wang, then the star of the People’s Liberation Army tea
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Richard Krawiec has published 2 novels, Time Sharing and Faith in What?, a story collection, And Fools of God, 2 books of poetry, She Hands me the Razor and Breakdown, and 4 plays, as well as 2 young adult biographies, and book reviews and feature articles for national publications. Time Sharing was a Publisher's Weekly Recommended urval, and made the by Voice Real Life Rock Top Ten. She Hands me the Razor was one of 17 poetry books nominated for a 2012 SIBA Award. His play Creeds had its World Premiere in Durham, where it played to sold-out shows. He has won fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the NC Arts Council(twice) and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His work appears in Shenandoah, sou'wester, Witness, Cream City Review, Florida Review, West Branch, NC Literary Review, 2Rivers View, Connotation, and dozens of other literary magazines.
He has edited anthologies featuring the work of Dorianne Laux, Marge Piercy, Reynolds Price, Lee Smith,
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Jeff C. Young was born in Orangeburg, South Carolina but he spent his formative years in Lebanon, Indiana. Since graduating from Ball State University in 1971, Young has worked as an editor, journalist, free lance writer and librarian. When he was between writing, editing or librarian jobs, Young delivered pizzas in four different decades. In 1997, he became a published author with the debut of his book, The Fathers of American Presidents. Since then, he has written over 40 nonfiction books for young readers in the fields of biography, sports, politics/government, military
history, American history and transportation. In 2007, Young's book, Bleeding Kansas and the Violent Clash Over Slavery In The Heartland, won the prestigious Spur Award from the Western Writers of America for Best Juvenile Nonfiction Book. Young currently works as the Director of the Learning Resource Center at Meridan College in Sarasota, Florida. He plans to continue his writing as long as he has the ment