Chinese Volleyball Coach Lang Ping Has Spent Her Career Thinking Outside the Communist Party Box

As prominent journalist Gao Yu pointed out on Twitter: “Congratulations to the Chinese women’s volleyball team’s gold medal win after 12 years. It is difficult to imagine today’s success without Lang Ping. She is a world-class coach and she is Chinese. She is an independent Chinese who has been exposed to the international field of sport, she is not a cog in the machine of a national bureaucratic sports system.”