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China basketball hall of fame honours pioneer who is wife of renowned infectious disease expert

Li Shaofen, one of China’s first female basketball players, has joined the country’s basketball hall of fame. Li, 89, is also known as the wife of Zhong Nanshan, the pulmonologist who became a household name as a leading adviser in managing the Covid-19 pandemic. She was born in southern China’s Guangdong province in 1936. She was a main player of China’s first national women’s basketball team in the 1950s. As a teenager, Li was selected into the national team in 1952. Li played both centre and...


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