Missing Peng Shuai 彭帅 (No. 1) 

“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.”             ––  Milan Kundera Welcome to the first installment of what will be a series of occasional posts about the unfree and silenced Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai. Despite the rhetorical pleas of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and its CEO and Chair, Steve Simon, that Peng … Continue reading Missing Peng Shuai 彭帅 (No. 1) 

What does the 20th Party Congress Mean for Peng Shuai and the Future of the WTA in China?   

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) Finals will be played for the first time in Fort Worth, Texas, starting on Monday, October 31. The year-end tournament was among those the WTA relocated from China in the aftermath of Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai’s (彭帅) sexual assault allegations against retired Chinese Communist Party official, Zhang Gaoli  (张高丽), and her … Continue reading What does the 20th Party Congress Mean for Peng Shuai and the Future of the WTA in China?