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Ｆｕｋｕｈａｒａ：Ｉ　ａｍ　ｈａｌｆ　Ｃｈｉｎｅｓｅ 　　Fukuhara Ai, featured with a lovely baby face, always catches the eyes of media in or out of the arena. She is avoidably destined to connect with China ever since born and once served in the Super League Matches of Chinese Table Tennis. More than once, she claimed, “I am half Chinese.” 　　 　　A Chinese saying quotes “Fate leads people from thousands of miles to meet”. The Beijing Olympic Games indeed became a bridge for a great many foreign athletes to know China and even fall in love with it. Actually, some of them since their childhood have already got something connected to China, like Fukuhara Ai, the Japanese Table Tennis Player with nickname called “Porcelain Doll”. Fukuhara was coached in China when very young, and more than once, she claimed, “I am half Chinese”. 　　 　　“Mosquitoes especially like children” 　　 　　After dinner, Fukuhara happily came to chitchat with us and together with her Father Arinobu and her 22-year-old Chinese Coach, Tang Yuanyuan. Fatty figure, short hair, rouge cheek, curving eyelashes and wearing short-sleeved sweater and shorts, Fukuhara looks simply like a lovely Japanese cartoon figure. After seated, she immediately showed something unstill, #64258;apping on her thigh or scratching on her arm. “Mosquito!” she complained while bending her legs on the chair with a glimpse on us, “Mosquitoes especially like children.” 　　 　　“I came to Shanghai for my #64257;rst trip to China” 　　 　　Fukuhara has a 10-year older brother who likes table tennis as well. When very young, she was brought by parents to accompany her brother to practice. Sometimes when she fell asleep in her cradle, her parents then put it under the table tennis table. When 3 years and 9 months old, Fukuhara told her father for the #64257;rst time that she wanted to learn table tennis. 　　Probably because Father realized that it was too late when Brother started to learn at the age of secondary school, this time he specially arranged a Chinese