Hints and tips:
...The phrase Neng uses for such rule-pushing is ca bian qiu, outlined by Dr Marstine as originating from a move in ping-pong when you land a ball so close to the table’s edge that the other player can’t return...
...It is so desperate that Yu starts to encourage me with utterances such as “Hao Qiu!” (“Good ball!”)...
...In Ping Pang Qiu, she discusses her love for China and its contradictions with self-deprecating charisma – “China no longer exists,” she ventures, after the Cultural Revolution, which destroyed what she...
...Driving around the campus in a golf cart with Liu, his words are drowned out by loud shrieks of “hao qiu” (“good ball”) from the 150 coaches running the Saturday matches....
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