The forbidden game
Subtitle: golf and the Chinese dream
By: Dan Washburn
Publisher: Oneworld Publications Ltd
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781851689484
Subjects: Golf courses; Golf
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes index.