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The forbidden game : golf and the Chinese dream / Dan Washburn.

by Washburn, Dan, author.

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London : Oneworld Publications, 2014.

Golf -- Economic aspects -- China.

9781851689484 (pbk.)

1851689486 (pbk.)

xv, 316 pages ; 22 cm

Foundations -- First club -- Keep moving -- Playing the game -- No choice -- The mountain is high -- Scrape the bones, dry the glass -- Time to make claims -- Homecomings -- Striking back -- The golf police -- The road is wider -- Chasing the next dream.

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.

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