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9781851689484

The Forbidden Game Golf and the Chinese Dream

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    9781851689484

  • ISBN10:

    1851689486

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2014-07-15
  • Publisher: Oneworld Publications
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Summary

In October 2015, the Chinese Communist Party banned its 88 million members from excessive drinking, improper sexual relationships… and holding golf club memberships. But, with “the rich man’s game” about to appear in the Olympics for the first time in 112 years, they also began to spend unprecedented sums on their own national golf team.

Through the lives of three men intimately involved in China’s bizarre golf scene, Dan Washburn paints an arresting portrait of a country of contradictions. A villager named Wang sees his life transformed when a top-secret golf resort springs up next to his farm – despite the building of golf courses being illegal. Western executive Martin, whose firm manages the construction of golf courses, is always looking over his shoulder for Beijing’s “golf police”. And for security guard Zhou, making it as a professional golfer could be his way into China’s new middle class. Using the unique lens of The Forbidden Game, Washburn gleans rich insights into the politics and people of one of the most powerful and enigmatic nations on earth.

Author Biography

Dan Washburn is an award-winning reporter and managing editor at the Asia Society. His writing has appeared in the FT Weekend Magazine, The Economist, the Atlantic Monthly, Foreign Policy, Golf World, Slate, and ESPN.com. He is also the founding editor of Shanghaiist.com — one of the most widely read English-language websites about China. After a decade spent living in China, he now lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Table of Contents

Prologue
1. Foundations
2. First Club
3. Keep Moving
4. Playing the Game
5. No Choice
6. The Mountain Is High
7. Scrape the Bone, Dry the Glass
8. Time to Make Claims
9. Homecomings
10. Striking Black
11. The Golf Police
12. The Road Is Wider
13. Chasing the Next Dream
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Index

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