http://www.time.com/time/asia/2003/heroes/yao_ming.html
Yao Ming
China's Incredible Hulk of the hardcourt becomes an NBA sensation
By Hannah Beech
There are 1.3 billion of them, but Westerners don't really know much about the
citizens of the Middle Kingdom. For decades, China has existed in the
international eye as either a megalomaniacal dictator (Chairman Mao) or a
teeming mass of low-paid factory workers (everybody else). Maybe there's a
hyperkinetic kung fu star or a nerdy computer whiz to r
