A coming-of-age story set in modern day China centering on the
friendship between an American and a Chinese boy who meet while training
with Beijing’s Junior National Tennis Team.
Chase Robertson
arrives in Beijing as a fourteen-year-old boy still troubled by the
recent death of his older brother. He discovers a country in transition;
a society in which the dual systems of Communist Era state control and
an emerging entrepreneurial culture exist in paradox.
A top ranked
junior tennis player in the U.S., Chase joins the practices of the
Beijing National Junior Tennis Team and is immersed in the brutal,
cut-throat world of Chinese sport. It is a world in which gifted
children are selected at the ages of six or seven for specialized sport
schools where they devote their entire youth to the pursuit of athletic
excellence and are paid as professionals by the state. Athletes find
themselves compelled to do anything possible to succeed—right or wrong.
Those who fail to reach the pinnacle are cast aside and are left facing a
desperate future without hope.
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