Word: zheng
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...past. Throughout “The Post-American World,” Zakaria breaks the Westernized lens through which we too often view history, illuminating the Chinese history that our high school textbooks weren’t required to elaborate on. I had never heard of explorer Zheng He, whose gargantuan fleets of colossal ships in 1405 were superior to Christopher Columbus’s almost a century after. I was fascinated by Zakaria’s account of communist politician Deng Xiaoping’s speeches about economic reform in the 1950s that pointed China away from the elusive...
...women's tennis schedule continues in an unrelenting fashion. Safina plays Li again in a women's singles semi-finals on Aug. 16 at 4:00PM, just 12 hours after she and her Russian partner lost to the Chinese pair. Zheng and Yan meet Spain's Anabel Medina Garrigues and Virginia Ruano Pascual later in the evening in a doubles semi-final match...
China's success so far in women's Olympic tennis - coming close on the heel's of Zheng's strong performance at this year's Wimbledon - is a relatively recent phenomenon. In China's more vehemently socialist days, tennis was frowned upon, viewed as a marker of capitalist excess. (Any sport in which a major tournament has English nobility sampling strawberries and cream on the sidelines hardly bespoke of communist equality.) But China has changed, and a decent backhand is now considered de rigueur among many progeny of the Chinese elite. There's also the matter of international glory: Like...
...plan seems to be working. In the 2004 Athens Games, a Chinese women's pair brought home a surprise gold. Two years later, at the Australian Open, Yan and Zheng claimed the country's first Grand Slam title. Then came Wimbledon, when the diminutive Zheng made it to the semi-finals as a wildcard before succumbing to the younger Williams sister. Zheng, a native of Sichuan province, which was rocked by the May earthquake, donated her Wimbledon prize money to the reconstruction effort...
...crowds at the Opening Ceremony. Instead of holing up in a luxury hotel, Nadal is staying at the Olympic Village, fielding dozens of requests from other athletes to have their pictures taken with him. And the Chinese tennis players are meriting their share of attention at home, too. Zheng, who could stroll the streets of the capital unrecognized a couple years ago, now requires a bodyguard. And Li's Aug. 16 upset of Venus Williams has made the highlights reel of Chinese Olympic T.V. In Beijing, it seems these hometown heroes aren't so different from the Williams sisters, after...