Sign in with Facebook
1,128 books
|
87 friends
378 books
|
230 friends
218 books
|
108 friends
219 books
|
86 friends
54 books
|
40 friends
10 books
|
181 friends
13 books
|
52 friends
27 books
|
101 friends
More friends…
Dan Washburn
Goodreads Author
Born
in Danville, Pennsylvania, The United States
Website
Twitter
Genre
Member Since
December 2013
URL
https://www.goodreads.com/danwashburn
To ask
Dan Washburn
questions,
please sign up.
|
The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
— published 2014 — 5 editions |
|
|
Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
by , — published 2013 — 5 editions |
|
|
Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On
by — published 2008 — 3 editions |
|
* Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. To add more, click here.
Wayne Ma reports:
Read more of this blog post »China has nearly 1.4 billion people, but at most perhaps three million golfers, Gilligan said. New golf-course construction has technically been banned since 2004, and the country has less than 500 courses—compared with more than 14,000 in the U.S.
The sport has long been a symbol of Western excess in the minds of many Chinese, said Dan Washburn, author of “The Forbidden Game:...
Upcoming Events
No scheduled events.
Add an event.
Dan’s Recent Updates
|
Dan Washburn
is now friends with
Stewart Lee Beck
|
|
|
Dan Washburn
is currently reading
|
|
"Excellent. Though the premise is on golf in China, the book is truly about how work is done in China & how the Chinese think. I wish I had read this before I went to work & live there. "
|
|
"One of a kind book charting terra nova, as a westerner, by digging beneath the surface of the bureaucratic messiness of golf course design in China and following the development of China's budding golf tour(s) and golf course complexes in Mission..."
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
Dan Washburn
and
1 other person
liked
Rob's review
of
The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream:
"Wanted to read this ahead of my trip to Shanghai to teach a summer course at Fudan University next month. A marvelous integration of the development of golf in China with China's economic transformation in general. Chinese pro golfer Zhou Xunshu s..."
Read more of this review »
|
|
|
Dan Washburn
wants to read
|
|
|
Dan Washburn
wants to read
|
|
|
Dan Washburn
wants to read
|
|
“Even today, the average rural family in Guizhou earns less than a hundred dollars a month – just 4,753 yuan ($780) a year.”
― Dan Washburn, The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
― Dan Washburn, 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.”
― Dan Washburn, The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
― Dan Washburn, 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.”
― Dan Washburn, The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
― Dan Washburn, The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
Topics Mentioning This Author
| topics | posts | views | last activity | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sample chapter from Unsavory: Dan Washburn's essay | 1 | 1 | Dec 01, 2013 09:53PM | |
| China: Record-breaking Reddit AMA for 'Unsavory Elements'! Here's the transcript: | 1 | 13 | Dec 08, 2013 07:45AM | |
| China Book Club: 'Unsavory' group AMA on Reddit breaks record! | 1 | 16 | Dec 08, 2013 07:50AM | |
| Essential CHINA: Unsavory Elements AMA breaks Reddit record! Read the transcript: | 2 | 12 | Dec 08, 2013 09:06AM |
