This document provides an overview of sports in China. It details China's national and traditional sports like soccer, basketball, badminton, and table tennis. It profiles famous Chinese athletes like Yao Ming and Deng Yaping. It also examines the intense training methods for young Chinese athletes and scandals in Chinese sports involving doping and match fixing. Additionally, it discusses the historical role of politics in Chinese sports from Mao Zedong's rule onwards.

1. China
By: Brian Cooper and Gavin Johnson

2. Facts About China
● China is located in East Asia, and is boarded by 14 other countries,
including Russia, Mongolia, and India.
● China has a ton of history and the earliest records of ancient Chinese
writing was around as early as 1250 BC.
● The population in China is 1.386 billion people, and it is the world’s
most populous country!
● The area of China is also extremely large, ranging 9,600,000 square
kilometers, making it the third largest country by area in the entire
world.

3. Facts about China cont.
● China has had a ton of Leaders among the years, and most recently and
still the General Secretary is Xi Jinping.
● Xi Jinping is a Chinese politician who is not only the General Secretary
of the Communist Party of China, President of the People’s Republic of
China, and chairman of the Central Military Commission.

4. Cities in China
● The capital of China is Beijing, which also means,
“Northern Capital” in English. Beijing is one of the
most populated cities in the entire world.
● China has some of the largest cities in the world,
including Shanghai and Beijing. Other large cities in
China include Tianjin, Shenzhen, Guangzhou,
Chengdu, Dongguan, and lastly, Chongqing. All of
these cities have over 8 million people living there,
with the highest populated being Shanghai, at 23.4
million people!

5. Historical Significance
● With thousands of years and continuous history, China is one of the
world’s oldest civilizations.
● China's history is rich with art, politics, science, and philosophy. It is
home to the oldest of the major world civilizations.
● China was ruled by various dynasties for much of its history. There
have been a total of 13 different dynasties throughout the year, with
them now in the Communist Era, which began in 1949 and is still
present.

6. Chinese Culture
● Chinese culture is one of the world's oldest cultures, tracing back to
thousands of years ago.
● Important components of Chinese culture includes ceramics,
architecture, music, literature, martial arts, cuisine, visual arts,
philosophy and religion.

7. Chinese Culture cont.
● In Chinese culture, family is truly a very important part of life and has
been for thousands of years.
● Chinese family structure has traditionally been rigid and hierarchical.
Many parents and grandparents now still expect their
children/grandchildren to do as they are told.
● There are many different styles of food in China as well. Over the years
there has been eight total different cuisines, and many of the
differences are based upon geography and many other things.

8. Chinese Culture cont.
● The Chinese traditional cultural values of harmony, benevolence,
righteousness, courtesy, wisdom, honesty, loyalty, and filial piety are
embodied in China's diplomacy through the concept of harmony, the
most important Chinese traditional value.
● Chinese culture is called unique in many ways because of the
abundance of the material and spiritual values, that have been
unchanged throughout thousands of years.

9. National/Traditional Sport
● Soccer- Fan Favorite since the 1900’s
● Basketball
● Badminton
● Swimming
● Table Tennis- One of there most competitive sports
● Jianzi
● Cuju- Involves kicking ball through net
● Qianball- Similar to racquetball

10. Athletes
● Yao Ming- Former Basketball player for the Houston Rockets
● Ichiro Suzuki- Former Baseball player from many MLB teams
● Deng Yaping- Former Table Tennis Olympic champion
● Yi Jianlian- Former Professional Chinese Basketball Player
● Guo Jingling- One of the most famous female divers
● Li Na- Chinese Professional Tennis player

11. Video
https://youtu.be/o81tuQSXbiw ←Video here
Analysis
● Young Children are stretched to the limit
● Painful and intense coaching methods
● Half a million chinese children go through this
● Only 10% will ever make it to the Olympic level
● Some Athletes don’t get a real education because of how hard sports
push them

12. National Symbols in Sports
● Mao Zedong
● Den Yaping- symbol of ping pong
● Chinese Super League
● China’s football World Cup team
● Yao Ming- symbol of Basketball

13. Sport Scandals
● Sun Yang chinese Olympic swimmer was suspended for doping in the
Tokyo Olympics
● Was suspended for 8 years from restricting the anti-doping policy
● 1999 Jia League match fixing controversy
● Evidence of bribery that fixed the 1999 Jia-A league match

14. Politics in Sport
● From Mao Zedong's rule of sport in 1949
● Sports were seen as a militarized and socialist movement
● Physical Education was a political purpose to show discipline in the
mind and body to citizens
● The Chinese learned from the Soviet Union to develop a system of
sports
● The Soviets helped develop Chinese athletes