Rachel Axon writes in an enterprise piece for USA Today: Despite restrictions imposed by the government and the sport holding virtually no space in the culture of China’s more than 1.3 billion population, golf is enjoying tremendous growth in China. Course construction has been booming for a decade even as a moratorium was established — […]
Alyssa Abkowitz writes in a Wall Street Journal front-page story: Lately, President Xi Jinping’s austerity campaign has sent the sport into a sand trap: More than 60 courses have been closed and several Communist Party officials are under investigation for hitting the links. Since the Communist Revolution, when Chairman Mao Zedong declared golf “too […]
Zach Bergson writes for VICE: As economic development spread rapidly in the country at the turn of the century, local and provincial governments—who own a significant portion of the nation’s land—saw golf as a way to increase their tax bases and make money, according to Dan Washburn, author of The Forbidden Game. They sold their […]
Harold Thibault writes in The Guardian: The sport is getting a bad reputation in other ways. To be maintained properly, golf courses have to be watered regularly – this, at a time when northern China is suffering from chronic water shortages. And building new ones means expropriating farmland, often under highly dubious circumstances – this […]
Alma Lopez Figueiras writes in El Mundo: Para Dan Washburn, que ha documentado este controvertido boom en su libro ‘El juego prohibido: golf y sueño chino’, el golf no sólo refleja el rápido crecimiento económico de China en las últimas tres décadas, sino que también revela las tensiones que enfrenta el país, particularmente la desigualdad […]
Harold Thibault writes in Le Monde: Ce sport « cumule » d’autres caractéristiques gênantes. L’entretien des parcours nécessite un fort arrosage alors que le nord de la Chine souffre d’un manque d’eau chronique ; leur construction se fait au prix d’expropriations de paysans dans des conditions souvent troubles. Le tout alors que le pays le […]
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