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Originally Posted by mcsluggo
can there be anything more basic an primevil/manly than the basic game oftug of war? ( I gues a straight, bar knuckled brawl...)
jthig, I taught for a semester in Beijing a few years back, and outside my room at the "frendship house" (the well bugged place where they stored all of the foreigners, whether faculty or not) was a field of stone table-tennis tables, as well as some baskeball courts, and soccer fields etc... the tables were packed ALWAYS, with spectators and all. In the snow, in the early morning, whatever.
they took it VERY seriously.
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Yup, table tennis is the biggest sport in China. It's actually pretty big in most of the rest of the world, just not here.