BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240328T164843Z DTSTART:20141105T000000Z DTEND:20141105T020000Z UID:20141105T000000Z-20141105T020000Z-10@danwashburn.com SUMMARY:Shanghai\, China DESCRIPTION:Shanghai Foreign Correspondents Club\n \nDate/Time: Tuesda y\, November 4 2014\, 7pm-9pm\n \nDoors open at 7pm\; Event starts at 7:30pm\n\nAdmission: FCC members: free\; non-members 50 RMB. 25-30 rmb drink specials to be offered!\n\nBook tickets here.\n \nStatistically \, zero percent of the Chinese population plays golf\, still known as the rich man’s game and considered politically 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. In hi s new book\, The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream\, award-wi nning journalist Dan Washburn charts a vivid path through this contrad ictory country by following the lives of three men intimately involved in China's bizarre golf scene. The former Shanghai-based writer and S hanghaiist founder will discuss the reporting that went into his criti cally acclaimed book — described as strikingly original by The Wall St reet Journal and gripping by The Economist — and how it almost never g ot published.\n \nAbout the Speaker: \n \nDan Washburn is an award-win ning journalist and Chief Content Officer at the Asia Society. His wri ting has appeared in FT Weekend Magazine\, Slate\, Foreign Policy\, Th e Atlantic\, The Economist\, Golf World\, Golf Digest\, ESPN.com\, the South China Morning Post\, and other publications. His work has been featured in the anthologies Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners o n the Loose in China and Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Gam e On. Dan is also the founding editor of Shanghaiist.com\, one of the most widely read English-language websites about China. After almost a decade in China\, he now lives in Brooklyn\, New York. Visit him onli ne at http://danwashburn.com. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Shanghai Foreign Correspondent s Club
\nDate/Time: Tuesday\, November 4 2014\, 7pm -9pm
\nDoors open at 7pm\; Event starts at 7:30pm
\nAdmiss ion: FCC members: free\; non-members 50 RMB. 25-30 rmb drink specials to be offered!
\nBook tickets here.
\nSta tistically\, zero percent of the Chinese population plays golf\, still known as the “\;rich man’s game”\; and considered political ly taboo. Yet China is in the midst of a golf boom — hundreds of new c ourses have opened in the past decade\, despite it being illegal for a nyone to build them. In his new book\, The Forbidden Game: Golf and th e Chinese Dream\, award-winning journalist Dan Washburn charts a vivid path through this contradictory country by following the lives of thr ee men intimately involved in China’\;s bizarre golf scene. The f ormer Shanghai-based writer and Shanghaiist founder will discuss the r eporting that went into his critically acclaimed book — described as & #8220\;strikingly original”\; by The Wall Street Journal and “\;gripping”\; by The Economist — and how it a lmost never got published.
\nAbout the Speaker:
\nDan Washburn is an award-winning journalist and Chief Conten t Officer at the Asia Society. His writing has appeared in FT Weekend Magazine\, Slate\, Foreign Policy\, The Atlantic\, The Economist\, Gol f World\, Golf Digest\, ESPN.com\, the South China Morning Post\, and other publications. His work has been featured in the anthologies Unsa vory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China and Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On. Dan is also the founding e ditor of Shanghaiist.com\, one of the most widely read English-languag e websites about China. After almost a decade in China\, he now lives in Brooklyn\, New York. Visit him online at http://danwashburn.com.
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