Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the by Kathleen Yep HARDBACK

Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground\nby Kathleen Yep\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Kathleen Yep\nTitle: Outside the Paint: When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of the Americas\nPublisher: Temple University Press,U.S.\nPublication year: 2009\nISBN-13: 9781592139422\nISBN-10: 1592139426\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nBreaking out of Chinatown by shooting and dribbling\n\nReveals that Chinese Americans began 'shooting hoops' nearly a century before Chinese superstar Yao Ming turned pro. Drawing on interviews with players and coaches, this book takes readers back to San Francisco in the 1930s and 1940s, when young Chinese American men and women developed a new approach to the game - with fast b.