The chinese media are saying Yao appeared in the Denver game. Anyway, he now owns a basketball team in China he might be here to recruit Asik perhaps ;-)
My neighbor when i lived in New Hampshire was a 6' 10" obese chinese guy. When your population is 1.5 billion, you're going to have a lot of 7 footers. just statistically speaking.
Mainland Chinese who struck it rich quickly after the China economy liberalized in the late eighties to early nineties tend to be the showy, or if you're a cynic, boorish ones. There's all sorts of stories of crass displays of wealth. http://www.wantchinatimes.com/news-subclass-cnt.aspx?id=20120328000003&cid=1503 http://www.today.com/money/china-has-word-its-crass-new-rich-2D11603365 OTOH, the Chinese diaspora did not go through such a sudden surge in wealth. Quite a few tycoons like Robert Kuok, Li Ka Shing etc accumulated their wealth slowly , and in the process , weathered through some hard times. They did not have the equivalent of an oil well spring up in their backyard one day, which I think was the main mode of accumulating wealth for the super wealthy in China. (I'm sure Texans will relate to this metaphor, and also the tired TV stereotype of the gregarious Texan oilmen and their showboating displays of moolah) In a sense, Yao started out poor and slowly worked hard for his wealth (Chinese sport academies are no fun). He's not likely to blow it all at once.
