Chinese community brings generations together at the ping-pong table
By Paige Parsons and Fangliang Xu Hechun Ouyang says his mother forced him to attend his first table tennis lesson 10 weeks ago. At the time, he didn’t know what to expect. At school his friends played basketball and soccer. Nobody played ping-pong. His mother, Shirley Fang, enrolled her 10-year-old son in a series of the lessons offered by the Chinese-Canadian Heritage Centre because she thought becoming involved in a traditional Chinese sport would give him an opportunity to do something his school friend’s weren’t. However, Ouyang was not interested. Why would he want to play a game that none of his friends were playing? Now that he has...