Dan Washburn is an award-winning reporter and managing editor at the Asia Society. His writing has appeared in the FT Weekend Magazine, the Atlantic, The Economist, ESPN.com, Foreign Policy, Golf World, Slate, the South China Morning Post, and other publications. Washburn's work has been featured in the anthologies Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China and Inside the Ropes: Sportwriters Get Their Game On. He is also the founding editor of Shanghaiist.com, one of the most widely read English-language websites about China. After almost a decade spent living in China, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
发表于2024-12-25
The Forbidden Game 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书
图书标签: 英文原版 英国文学 老外看中国 R GW American AS
In China, just because something is banned, doesn't mean it can't boom... Statistically, zero percent of the Chinese population plays golf, still known as the "rich man’s game" and considered taboo. 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. 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. 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.
一般....牵强附会的地方太多了 适合不了解中国但需要装做很了解中国的老外看。
评分After reading this book, i found some personal stories, like Zhou very funny, but only use three stories to project the broad problems facing china at large is not convincing. After profound changes since opening up and reform, the stories in China is more than these three stories, and China has transformed in a way beyond the author's mind.
评分After reading this book, i found some personal stories, like Zhou very funny, but only use three stories to project the broad problems facing china at large is not convincing. After profound changes since opening up and reform, the stories in China is more than these three stories, and China has transformed in a way beyond the author's mind.
评分一般....牵强附会的地方太多了 适合不了解中国但需要装做很了解中国的老外看。
评分一般....牵强附会的地方太多了 适合不了解中国但需要装做很了解中国的老外看。
The Forbidden Game 2024 pdf epub mobi 电子书