^ "The Chinese golf courses that don't officially exist".What I’m looking for is similar fantasy love/obsession like storylines that would fall into line with TFG. I was hoping there are other readers out there that have also read this series. USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Long shot here but when I was 14 back in 1993 (yup I’m that old) one of my favorite books was The Forbidden Game by LJ Smith. Smith : 9781847387387 We use cookies to give you the best possible experience. ^ "Dan Washburn and Karl Taro Greenfeld on The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream". Smith, 9781847387387, available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide.^ "CDT Bookshelf: Dan Washburn on Golf in China".^ a b "Book Review: 'The Forbidden Game' by Dan Washburn". Be mindful when sharing personal information, including your religious or political views, health, racial background, country of origin, sexual identity and/or.The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream. and A.: Dan Washburn on 'The Forbidden Game' ". ^ "Golf as a metaphor for modern China".2014 The Financial Times "Best Books of 2014".In The Wall Street Journal, Edward Chancellor called the book "strikingly original" and "gripping." The Economist, in an unsigned review, said anecdotes in the book "bring China to life in a way that outlandish-but-true statistics … cannot." Jonathan Mirsky, in Literary Review, complimented The Forbidden Game's treatment of "local and high-level Chinese corruption," writing "I know no narrative that surpasses The Forbidden Game in this regard." Simon Kuper, reviewing for the New Statesman, praised the book as "an illuminating portrait of modern China" that offered "a rare insight into ordinary Chinese lives," but noted that Washburn was "a little too fond of detail." Honors The Forbidden Game enjoyed a positive critical reception. Washburn has said he wanted the book to "read more like a novel to be alive and character-driven - more show than tell." Washburn reportedly spent more than seven years researching and writing the book. In an interview with The New York Times Washburn said the "complex world surrounding" golf "seemed to be, in many ways, a microcosm of the China I was living in." In the book's prologue Washburn writes that the growth of golf in China, where construction of new golf courses is officially banned, is "a barometer" for "the country's rapid economic rise" but that "it is also symbolic of the less glamorous realities of a nation’s awkward and arduous evolution from developing to developed: corruption, environmental neglect, disputes over rural land rights and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor." Īccording to a review in The Wall Street Journal, Washburn tells his story "through the lives of three protagonists: Zhou, a migrant worker who takes a job as a security guard but strives to become a professional golfer Wang, a farmer on the tropical island of Hainan-China's Hawaii-who finds a new vocation as a restaurant owner after his land is given over to a golf course and Martin, a hard-working and foul-mouthed American golf-course contractor."
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