By Kathleen Yep
This attention-grabbing e-book unearths that chinese language americans begun “shooting hoops” approximately a century prior to chinese language star Yao Ming became professional. Drawing on interviews with gamers and coaches, Outside the Paint takes readers again to San Francisco within the Nineteen Thirties and Nineteen Forties, while younger chinese language American women and men constructed a brand new method of the game—with quick breaks, difficult passing and competitive defense—that was once prior to its time.
Every bankruptcy tells a stunning tale: the chinese language Playground, the single public open air house in Chinatown; the Hong Wah Kues, a qualified barnstorming men’s basketball workforce; the Mei Wahs, a championship women’s novice crew; Woo Wong, the 1st chinese language athlete to play in Madison sq. backyard; and the terribly gifted Helen Wong, whom Kathleen Yep compares to Babe Didrikson.
Outside the Paint chronicles the efforts of those hugely comprehensive athletes who constructed a special enjoying sort that capitalized on their actual attributes, challenged the present racial hierarchy, and enabled them, for a time, to depart the confines in their segregated international. They discovered to dribble, shoot, and steal.
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I think it builds character. . ”61 Playground basketball helped many young people draw strength from their ethnicity despite the rampant discrimination they experienced elsewhere. Jennie Chong Jue, a member of a Playground girls’ team, comments on the race and ethnic consciousness she developed at the Playground: “You are who you are. There were things that you experienced that you never forget. How they look at you, how they treat you. ”62 Chong Jue reconciles an awareness of herself as a member of a racially marginalized group with a sense of selfrespect.
4 One day in 1939, posters appeared around San Francisco’s Chinatown announcing openings on a traveling Chinese American basketball team. Young men in their late teens to mid-twenties showed up at the Chinese Playground for tryouts. 5 After a series of drills and scrimmages, only six players made the team: Fred Ming Gok, Fred Hong Wong, Albert “Sonny” Lee, George Lee, Robert Doggie Lum, and Chauncey Yip. In the second season, during the winter of 1940, Albert Lee, George Lee, and Robert Doggie Lum returned, and Faye Lee, Arnold Lim, and Douglas Quan signed on to join them.
The different amount of resources was laced with meaning. Mike Lee, a member of one of Paul Whang’s championship teams in the late 1940s, reflects on how the opposing teams’ clothing affected him: “It was scary to walk on the court. ”59 In the end, however, the outcome of the game subverted popular ideas about who belonged: the Playground clinched the 1949 title with a score of 14 to 13. The coach of the team, Paul Whang, explains: “[The] Playground [had] no funds. . We had to play in our street clothes.
