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Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
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2014
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Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
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2013
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Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On
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WSJ: Why Golf Can’t Catch a Break in China
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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: Golf and...
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"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..."
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"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..."
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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
