The Forbidden Game: Golf And The Chinese Dream
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- Synopsis
- In China, just because something is banned, doesn't mean it can't boom. . . Statistically, zero percent of the Chinese population plays golf, still known as the "rich man’s game" and considered taboo. Yet China is in the midst of a golf boom -- hundreds of new courses have opened in the past decade, despite it being illegal for anyone to build them. Award-winning journalist Dan Washburn charts a vivid path through this contradictory country by following the lives of three men intimately involved in China's bizarre golf scene. We meet Zhou, a peasant turned golf pro who discovered the game when he won a job as a security guard at one of the new, exclusive clubs and who sees himself entering the emerging Chinese middle class as a resuThe Forbidden Game is a rich and arresting portrait of the world’s newest superpower and three different paths to the new Chinese Dream.
- Copyright:
- 2014
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781780741055
- Publisher:
- Oneworld Publications
- Date of Addition:
- 04/09/16
- Copyrighted By:
- Dan Washburn
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Sports, Business and Finance
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.