Fan Zhendong: A Journey to the West

A year ago, few Chinese sports fans could have located Saarbrücken on a map. Fan Zhendong changed that. But his move to Germany is more than a curious footnote in Ping Pong Diplomacy. It inverts the entire logic of 留洋, and raises a harder question: what does it mean for an elite Chinese athlete to define his own path?

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