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With great power comes the instinct to hoard. China loves to claim ownership of land masses in foreign countries, international water bodies, and, perhaps a little more deservingly, to a series of inventions that have moulded so fastidiously the world we live in today: the compass, gunpowder, printing, tea, toilet paper — and football.
The story goes that during the Song dynasty (960 to 1279 AD), the Chinese played a leisurely game called “kickball”, or cuju, which mainly required players to keep the ball air-bound with no use of hands allowed. Cuju also finds a mention in John Woo’s 2008
