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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:<p><strong>Shanghai Foreign Correspondent
 s Club</strong></p>\n<p><em>Date/Time: Tuesday\, November 4 2014\, 7pm
 -9pm</p>\n<p>Doors open at 7pm\; Event starts at 7:30pm</p>\n<p>Admiss
 ion: FCC members: free\; non-members 50 RMB. 25-30 rmb drink specials 
 to be offered!</p>\n<p>Book tickets <a href=http://www.shanghaifcc.org
 /events/tuesday-november-4-2014-7pm-9pm-the-forbidden-game-golf-and-th
 e-chinese-dream-dan-washburn/ target=_blank>here</a>.</em><br>\n <br>\
 nStatistically\, zero percent of the Chinese population plays golf\, s
 till known as the &#8220\;rich man’s game&#8221\; and considered polit
 ically taboo. Yet China is in the midst of a golf boom — hundreds of n
 ew courses have opened in the past decade\, despite it being illegal f
 or anyone to build them. In his new book\, The Forbidden Game: Golf an
 d the Chinese Dream\, award-winning journalist Dan Washburn charts a v
 ivid path through this contradictory country by following the lives of
  three men intimately involved in China&#8217\;s bizarre golf scene. T
 he former Shanghai-based writer and Shanghaiist founder will discuss t
 he reporting that went into his critically acclaimed book — described 
 as &#8220\;strikingly original&#8221\; by <em>The Wall Street Journal<
 /em> and &#8220\;gripping&#8221\; by <em>The Economist</em> — and how 
 it almost never got published.</p>\n<p><strong>About the Speaker: </st
 rong><br>\n <br>\nDan Washburn is an award-winning journalist and Chie
 f Content Officer at the Asia Society. His writing has appeared in FT 
 Weekend Magazine\, Slate\, Foreign Policy\, The Atlantic\, The Economi
 st\, Golf World\, Golf Digest\, ESPN.com\, the South China Morning Pos
 t\, and other publications. His work has been featured in the antholog
 ies Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China and
  Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On. Dan is also the fo
 unding editor of Shanghaiist.com\, one of the most widely read English
 -language websites about China. After almost a decade in China\, he no
 w lives in Brooklyn\, New York. Visit him online at <a href=http://dan
 washburn.com target=_blank>http://danwashburn.com</a>.</p>\n
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LOCATION:The Chalet\, 永嘉路385号\, 近太原路\, Shanghai\, China
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