the forbidden game golf and the chinese dream

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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 result Wang, a lychee farmer whose life is turned upside down when a massive, top-secret golf resort moves in next door to his tiny village and Martin, a Western executive maneuvering through China’s byzantine and highly political business environment, ever watchful for Beijing's 'golf police.' The Forbidden Game is a rich and arresting portrait of the world’s newest superpower and three different paths to the new Chinese Dream. 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. 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. Statistically, zero percent of the Chinese population plays golf, still known as the 'rich man’s game' and considered taboo. Visit Dan online at China, just because something is banned, doesn't mean it can't boom. Washburn, who lived in China from 2002 to 2011, spent more than seven years researching and writing the book described as 'strikingly original' by The Wall Street Journal and 'gripping' by. After almost a decade in China, he now works as Chief Content Officer at the Asia Society and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife Bliss, their daughter Isabelle, and the family dogs Ozzie and Tux. You’d think it’s just another in a long line of Chinese golf courses choosing to borrow the name of a well known course in the United States (see Pine Valley, Mission Hills, et al.), but according to the most recent issue of China International Business, you’d be wrong. The Forbidden Game follows the lives of three men intimately involved in China's bizarre golf scene, where new golf courses are at once banned and booming. Dan is also the founding editor of, one of the most widely read English-language websites about China. His work has been featured in the anthologies Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China and Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On.

Dan's writing has appeared in The New York Times, FT Weekend Magazine, Slate, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, The Economist, Golf World, Golf Digest,, The Telegraph, Quartz, CNN Money, the South China Morning Post, and other publications. Dan is also the founding editor of, one of the most widely r Dan Washburn is an award-winning journalist and author of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream, which The Wall Street Journal called 'strikingly original,' The Economist called 'gripping,' and The Financial Times named one of the Best Books of 2014. Dan's writing has appeared in The New York Times, FT Weekend Magazine, Slate, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, The Economist, Golf World, Golf Digest,, The Telegraph, Quartz, CNN Money, the South China Morning Post, and other publications. The Forbidden Game follows the lives of three men intimately involved in China’s bizarre golf scene, where new golf courses are at once banned and booming. Dan Washburn is an award-winning journalist and author of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream, which The Wall Street Journal called 'strikingly original,' The Economist called 'gripping,' and The Financial Times named one of the Best Books of 2014.

The forbidden game golf and the chinese dream