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Ding Hui: Still Chinese, still black, still playing volleyball

The past couple of days, traffic to China Sports Today from people searching for "Ding Hui" has seen a little uptick. Could it be a coincidence that a recent story in The Guardian said that Ding Hui, the Chinese national volleyball team's first black... ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Thu, Nov 05 2009

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