Dr Wang Zhenyi
“We may have better knowledge and more advanced equipments than Wang did, but our concern for patients and devotion to work cannot compare with Wang’s.” Wang Zhenyi(王振义Wáng Zhènyì), whose family comes from Jiangsu(江苏Jiāngsū) Province, said he took up…
Qibo of China
Sinologist Paul Unschuld maintains based on phonetic resemblances(if there is a resemblance between two people or things, they are similar to each other) that the elusive Qibo might actually…
Shuttlecock Kicking of China
In the 1930s, the sport of shuttlecock kicking was in decline for a time. After the establishment of new China, it regained vitality and the first formal National Shuttlecock…
Playing During the Lantern Festival
The Chinese Lantern Festival(元宵佳节Yuánxiāo jiājié) has many names. It is also known as Shang Yuan Festival, or the Little New Year, as it marks the end of the celebrations stemming…
Embryonic Forms of Primitive Sports of China
The game called jirang (literally, “hitting the soil”), which is recorded in ancient books, was popular some four or five thousand years ago. A kind of throwing exercise in…
