Ryan Chahanovich

The world is fascinated with China’s new status as a world superpower. Examinations of China’s rise are unavoidable in the global media, most focusing on explaining China through the twin prisms of its rapidly growing economy and military. The China Basketball Project will take a unique view of this ascension by using the Middle Kingdom’s passion for basketball to tell its story. To the rest of the world Yao Ming was the beginning. However, the People’s Republic has embraced the sport for more than 100 years and is quickly becoming a superpower in basketball, too. A multimedia storytelling experience – part short form documentary, part enhanced eBook, and part interactive timeline – the China Basketball Project will offer timely insight into a nation and a sport that symbolizes the power and potential of globalizing culture.