谁帮我用中文介绍一下姚明，然后用英文翻译过来，

China stands accused of engineering its most famous sporting export, writes Talek Harris.

No accident … Yao Ming towers over Jason Smith.
Photo: AP

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AdvertisementFAR from being a chance creation, Chinese basketball giant Yao Ming was knowingly bred for the sport, forced into it against his will and subjected to years of dubious science to increase his height, a new book claims.

The 228-centimetre Houston Rockets centre also underwent years of punishing training as one of hundreds of thousands of potential Chinese athletes who endure miserable childhoods in boot-camp conditions.

The revelations in Operation Yao Ming, by former Newsweek journalist Brook Larmer, are likely to raise further disquiet over China's Soviet-style sports system ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Larmer said Yao, China's first successful basketball export and its most famous face worldwide, was the product of a harsh and antiquated pro