BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240329T080227Z DTSTART:20141108T210000Z DTEND:20141108T230000Z UID:20141108T210000Z-20141108T230000Z-12@danwashburn.com SUMMARY:Shanghai\, China DESCRIPTION:M Book Talk: The Forbidden Game: Golf & the Chinese Dream\ nWith author Dan Washburn and moderator Brook Larmer of National Geogr aphic and The New York Times Magazine\n\nRMB 75\, includes a drink\, s tudents RMB 20 \n\nGolf is booming in China\, yet this “rich man’s gam e” is fraught with contradictions. Award-winning journalist Dan Washbu rn creates an arresting portrait of the contradictions that shape a ch anging China as he follows the lives of three men intimately involved in China’s golf scene\, three different paths to the new Chinese Dream .\n\nWe meet Zhou\, a peasant turned golf pro who sees the game as his way into China’s new middle class\; Wang\, a lychee farmer whose life is transformed when a massive\, top-secret resort springs up next doo r\; and Martin\, a Western executive maneuvering through a highly poli tical business environment.\n\nReservations required: (86 21) 6350 998 8 or click here.\n\nAbout the Author:\n\nDan Washburn is an award-winn ing reporter and Chief Content Officer at the Asia Society. His writin g has appeared in the FT Weekend Magazine\, The Economist\, the Atlant ic Monthly\, Foreign Policy\, Golf World\, Slate and ESPN.com. He is a lso the founding editor of Shanghaiist.com\, one of the most widely re ad English-language websites about China. He now lives in Brooklyn\, N ew York. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
M Book Talk: The Forbidden Gam
e: Golf &\; the Chinese Dream
\nWith author Dan Wa
shburn and moderator Brook Larmer of National Geographic and The New Y
ork Times Magazine
RMB 75\, includes a drink\, students R MB 20
\nGolf is booming in China\, yet this “rich man’s game” i s fraught with contradictions. Award-winning journalist Dan Washburn c reates an arresting portrait of the contradictions that shape a changi ng China as he follows the lives of three men intimately involved in C hina’s golf scene\, three different paths to the new Chinese Dream.
\nWe meet Zhou\, a peasant turned golf pro who sees the game as hi s way into China’s new middle class\; Wang\, a lychee farmer whose lif e is transformed when a massive\, top-secret resort springs up next do or\; and Martin\, a Western executive maneuvering through a highly pol itical business environment.
\nReservations required: (86 21 ) 6350 9988 or click here.
\nAbout the Author:
\nDan Washburn is an award-winning reporter an d Chief Content Officer at the Asia Society. His writing has appeared in the FT Weekend Magazine\, The Economist\, the Atlantic Monthly\, Fo reign Policy\, Golf World\, Slate and ESPN.com. He is also the foundin g editor of Shanghaiist.com\, one of the most widely read English-lang uage websites about China. He now lives in Brooklyn\, New York.
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