Dan Washburn
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“Even today, the average rural family in Guizhou earns less than a hundred dollars a month – just 4,753 yuan ($780) a year.”
― The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
― The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
“Parents here only view school as a way to avoid being illiterate. They don’t see education as a way to change their future and help them out of poverty.”
― The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
― The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
“In 1935, a Fortune magazine piece profiled a day in the life of a typical Shanghai-based expatriate, or “Shanghailander”: “At noon you make your way to a club for a leisurely lunch and two cocktails… You return to your office. But at four-thirty you knock off again for a game of golf at the Shanghai Golf Club or the Hung-Jao Golf Club, both resembling the Westchester County variety except for the attendants in white nightgowns.”
― The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
― The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream