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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" link="#0000FF" vlink="#CC0000" alink="#CC0000"><center><hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade>Breaking out of Chinatown by shooting and dribbling<hr width="350" size="1" align="center" noshade><p><a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/ChicagoBook.aspx?ISBN=9781592139422&&PRESS=temple" target="_top">Buy this book!</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">View Cart</a> | <a href="https://cdcshoppingcart.uchicago.edu/Cart/Cart.aspx?PRESS=temple" target="_top">Check Out</a></p><p><img src="1518_reg.gif" height=200 border=1 vspace=4></p></center><!--none//--><h1>Outside the Paint</h1>
<H2>When Basketball Ruled at the Chinese Playground</H2>
<h3>Kathleen S. Yep</h3>
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</P><BLOCKQUOTE><I><i>"Prodigiously researched and vividly realized, </i>Outside the Paint<i> tells a story previously all but unknown. Kathleen Yep has made an important contribution to the scholarship of the city game."</i><b>—Jeremy Schaap</b>, <i>New York Times</i> best-selling author of <i>Cinderella Man: James J. Braddock, Max Baer and the Greatest Upset in Boxing History</i> and <i>Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics</i></I></BLOCKQUOTE>
<p><i>Outside the Paint</i> takes readers back to the Chinese Playground of San Francisco in the 1930s and 1940s, the only public outdoor space in Chinatown. It was a place where young Chinese American men and women developed a new approach to the game of basketball—with fast breaks,
intricate passing and aggressive defense—that was ahead of its time.</p>
<p>Drawing on interviews with players and coaches, Kathleen Yep recounts some surprising stories. From the success of the Hong Wah Kues, a professional barnstorming men's basketball team and the Mei Wahs, a championship women’s amateur team, to Woo Wong, the first Chinese athlete to play in Madison Square Garden, and his extraordinarily talented sister Helen Wong, who is compared to Babe Didrikson.</p>
<p><i>Outside the Paint</i> chronicles the efforts of these highly accomplished athletes who developed a unique playing style that capitalized on their physical attributes, challenged the prevailing racial hierarchy, and enabled them, for a time, to leave the confines of their segregated world. As they learned to dribble, shoot, and steal, they made basketball a source of individual achievement and Chinese American community pride.</p>
<BR> <h2>Excerpt</h2><P>Excerpt available at <a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress">www.temple.edu/tempress</a></p>
<BR> <h2>Reviews</h2>
<p><i>"Yep's sports research helps fill a scholarly void in Asian American studies and serves as an inspiration to scholars." </i>
<br>—<b><i>Nichi Bei Times</i></b>
<p><i>"This readable volume provides compelling information about the experiences of Chinese American basketball players in San Francisco in the 1930s-40s.... Providing historical information that may be difficult to find in the broader literature on the history of US sports, this book will interest not only students of sports bus also those pursuing work in Asian American studies, ethnic studies, and US immigration history. Though accessible to beginners, it also offers information of interest to scholars." </I>
<br>—<b><i>Choice</b></i>
<BR> <h2>Contents</h2><P>
<p>Acknowledgments
<br>Introduction
<br>1. The Chinese Playground
<br>2. The Hong Wah Kues Discover America
<br>3. The Mei Wahs Knew How to Use Their Elbows and Push
<br>4. “Mr. Chinese Cager” Plays Madison Square Garden
<br>5. Helen Wong and the “Muscle Molls”
<br>Conclusion: The Chinese Playground and Yao Ming in the Era of Globalized Sports
<br>Notes
<br>Bibliography
<br>Index
</P><BR> <H2>About the Author(s)</H2>
<table><tr><td valign="top"><img src="/tempress/authors/2005_au1.gif" height="90" width="75"></td><td width="100%" valign="middle"><p><b>Kathleen S. Yep</b> is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and Sociology at Pitzer College of the Claremont Colleges.</P></td></tr></table>
<BR><H2>Subject Categories</H2>
<p><A HREF="/tempress/asian_amer.html" TARGET="_top">Asian American Studies</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/sports.html" TARGET="_top">Sports</a>
<BR><A HREF="/tempress/history.html" TARGET="_top">History</a>
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<BR><h2 class="inpageheading">In the series</H2>
<P><I><a href="http://www.temple.edu/tempress/asam_history.html" onMouseOver="window.status='Click for other books in this series!'; return true;" onMouseOut="window.status=''; return true;" target="_top">Asian American History and Culture</a></i>, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ.
</p><p>The "standard" written histories of Asian immigrants to the United States have been imbued with Western cultural biases. As a critique and corrective to earlier work, <I>Asian American History and Culture</I>, edited by Sucheng Chan, David Palumbo-Liu, Michael Omi, K. Scott Wong, and Linda Trinh Võ, aims to develop a history of Asian Americans that is compatible with their own experience, that treats Asian Americans as agents of historical change and as creators of a new culture. In addition, this series intends to focus on the groups that are flourishing in the contemporary U.S.—Filipinos, Koreans, Vietnamese—about whom little has been written as well as to add to the substantial work done on the Chinese and Japanese in this country.</p>
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