' , best known in the West by its postal map spelling Tsingtao, is a major city in eastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It borders Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west and Rizhao to the southwest.
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' , best known in the West by its postal map spelling Tsingtao, is a major city in eastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It borders Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west and Rizhao to the southwest. Lying across the Shandong Peninsula while looking out to the Yellow Sea,...
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) is a female Chinese
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player who was signed with the
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of the
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. She is from
Qingdao' , best known in the West by its postal map spelling Tsingtao, is a major city in eastern Shandong province, People's Republic of China. It borders Yantai to the northeast, Weifang to the west and Rizhao to the southwest. Lying across the Shandong Peninsula while looking out to the Yellow Sea,...
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ShandongFor the people of Shandong, see Shandong people' is a coastal province of eastern People's Republic of China. Its abbreviation is Lǔ, after the state of Lu that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....
in the
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, and is 1.84
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(6 ft 1 in.) tall.
She was the MVP of the 2004–2005
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season, where she led her team Bayi China Telecom to three consecutive championships. Sui was also named the Women's Chinese Basketball Association's most popular player in 2002 and 2003.
On February 15 2005, Feifei signed a contract with the WNBA's Sacramento Monarchs and drafted in April of that year, becoming the second Chinese woman basketball player to join the WNBA. As of 2006, Feifei is currently playing as guard. Her teammate
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also signed with the Monarchs.
Feifei is often referred to as the female
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