Volleyball!
I had the opportunity to check out for myself Chinese second most popular sport (behind the national sport ping-pong of course!) and to be honest it was actually pretty entertaining. The team in red is the Petroleum University, while the team in white is from a large medical university(not exactly sure what city they were from). As you may surmise from the sharp contrast in height and stature, the Petroleum University's team is quite good. They handily beat the other team and the crowd went bananas.
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
