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GIESLEMANN: China’s national pastime | The Daily Free Press

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GIESLEMANN: China’s national pastime

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Published Apr 7, 2014

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The five-minute walk to the basketball courts is filled with things that Iâ€™ve begun to describe as â€œtypical China,â€‌ things that used to make me double-take but now seem as common to me as Uggs and leggings on BUâ€™s campus. I pass by stray cats, car

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The green, turf-like surface of the Fudan University basketball courts is covered with students, from casual ballers in jeans and dress shoes to lanky kids in long athletic shorts and several wristbands. Regardless of the variety of players on the court,

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Our games go smoothly. Surprisingly, the most interesting facet of the whole day is trying to interpret what everyone around me is saying in Chinese.

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I figured out how to say everything from â€œnice shotâ€‌ to â€œmy badâ€‌ and even some less appropriate phrases. One of my opponents yelled at me to shoot the ball every time I touched it. I taunted him in the same manner the next time he got the ball; un

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Tate Gieselmann is a College of Arts and Sciences junior studying abroad in China. He can be reached at tateag@bu.edu .

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