{"id":138,"date":"2006-05-27T08:01:04","date_gmt":"2006-05-27T16:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/27\/operation-yao-ming\/"},"modified":"2015-10-09T12:15:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T20:15:26","slug":"operation-yao-ming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/2006\/05\/27\/operation-yao-ming\/","title":{"rendered":"Operation Yao Ming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review: Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar by Brook  Larmer<br \/>\nThis book is a very readable biography of Yao Ming.<br \/>\nBut I had been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marginalrevolution.com\/marginalrevolution\/2005\/12\/yao_ming_and_th.html\">led to hope that it would inform me about China&#8217;s future.<\/a> I&#8217;m disappointed at how little it tells me about that subject. It provides some moderately interesting tidbits of information about China&#8217;s recent history, but the book doesn&#8217;t attempt to provide the kind of understanding of China that would tell us whether those tidbits are a glimpse of a past that is being abandoned or whether they contain useful indications of China&#8217;s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review: Operation Yao Ming: The Chinese Sports Empire, American Big Business, and the Making of an NBA Superstar by Brook Larmer This book is a very readable biography of Yao Ming. But I had been led to hope that it would inform me about China&#8217;s future. I&#8217;m disappointed at how little it tells me [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-china"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p80O1l-2e","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":464,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bayesianinvestor.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}