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...Canadian doctor of Vietnamese-Chinese origins, and uses his firsthand experience of the world of medicine to underpin the dozen stories in this book. The pieces are interrelated, lightly and adroitly, by the recurrence of four common characters, Fitzgerald, Chen, Ming and Sri, all doctors. In some stories, Lam writes about his characters in the third person; for others, he uses the first. In less adept hands, this technique could easily seem affected. But Lam's handling of the quickly shifting perspectives is deft and gives the collection an agreeable dynamism...
...opening work, How to Get into Medical School, Part I, is an achingly sweet love story featuring Fitzgerald and Ming, both preparing for entrance to the University of Toronto Medical School. The second installment of their tale - which, in a clever use of pacing, runs not consecutively but as the third story in this volume - charts the melancholy end of their relationship. Ming is now seeing Chen - another student and someone, as we find out later in the collection, whom she will marry - while Fitzgerald is left behind in Ottawa to retake his exams. In the finest story...
Before the opening ceremony on Aug. 8, there was frenzied speculation in the Chinese blogosphere about who would carry China's flag and who would light the Olympic flame. The two obvious candidates were hoops star Yao Ming and hurdling legend Liu. When Yao loped in front of the massive Chinese Olympic team with the Chinese flag held aloft, the audience naturally thought Liu would carry the final torch. But that honor went instead to retired gymnast and sports-clothing tycoon Li Ning. Liu didn't even march with the Chinese Olympic delegation. Where...
Among all the fans wearing LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, and Yao Ming jerseys before the much-anticipated U.S.-China basketball game Sunday night, Men Yong Fan, a graduate student at Peking University, had high hopes for his country's historic moment against the United States. "I'm Chinese, so I wish China can sort of beat the U.S.," says Fan. "As a Chinese guy, I hope my country has no regrets." Fair enough. I started to walk away, when Fan tapped me on the shoulder. "By the way, I love Kobe...
...Puerto Rico's drubbing of the U.S. drained the team for the rest of the tournament. The Americans shut down China's guards - Bryant kept his vow to play D, applying choking pressure on Chinese point guards. The U.S. also caught a break; Yao Ming wasn't at full strength. Coming off a foot injury that ended his Houston Rockets season, Yao was slow and tired, often lingering behind on the fast breaks, doubling over to catch his breath. Though he sank a three-pointer for the first bucket of the game, sending the crowd into ecstasy, he finished with...