June 2010 – The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream

Where’s the other Pebble Beach golf club? China, of course

You’d think it’s just another in a long line of Chinese golf courses choosing to “borrow” the name of a well known course in the United States (see Pine Valley, Mission Hills, et al.), but according to the most recent issue of China International Business, …

A different look at Hainan (er, “Southern China”)

Sorry for the silence here recently. I just got out from under a variety of deadlines, including my latest story for Golf World. That piece, like several of my recent efforts, features China’s Hainan Island, perhaps the busiest place in the world in terms of …