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Category: Sport
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
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 Bill, a Western executive manoeuvring 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.
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