Sunday, August 26, 2007

Press tour to China and Japan: From Mao to Yao


Portraits of Chairman Mao have been common in China for decades. Now there's a newly ubiquitous presence: Yao Ming. The Houston Rockets NBA star's image is everywhere endorsing the Olympics and China Unicom, the state-owned telecommunications utility. It was big news when he got married this summer in Shanghai.

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