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SUMMARY:Nashville\, TN
DESCRIPTION:Author event with Dan Washburn\, author of The Forbidden G
 ame: Golf and the Chinese Dream\n\nPlease join Parnassus Books in welc
 oming author Dan Washburn for a discussion and signing of his book\, T
 he Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream. Dan will appear in conv
 ersation with Jeremy Goldkorn.\n\nStatistically\, zero percent of the 
 Chinese population plays golf\, a politically taboo topic still known 
 as the “rich man’s game.” Yet China is in the midst of a golf boom – h
 undreds of new courses have opened in the past decade\, despite it bei
 ng illegal to build them. Award-winning journalist Dan Washburn charts
  a vivid path through this contradictory country by following the live
 s of three men intimately involved in China’s bizarre golf scene. We m
 eet Zhou\, a peasant-turned-golf-pro who discovered the game after win
 ning a job as a security guard at an exclusive golf club – and believe
 s golf to be his ticket to joining China’s emerging middle class\; Wan
 g\, a lychee farmer whose life is turned upside down when a massive to
 p-secret golf complex moves in next door to his tiny ancient village\;
  and Martin\, a Western executive trying to navigate China’s byzantine
  and highly political business environment\, ever watchful for Beijing
 ’s “golf police.” The Forbidden Game is a rich and engrossing portrait
  of the world’s newest superpower and three very different paths to th
 e Chinese Dream.\n\nAbout Dan Washburn: \n\nDan Washburn is an award-w
 inning journalist and Chief Content Officer at the Asia Society. His w
 riting has appeared in FT Weekend Magazine\, Slate\, Foreign Policy\, 
 The Atlantic\, The Economist\, Golf World\, Golf Digest\, ESPN.com\, T
 he Telegraph\, Quartz\, the South China Morning Post\, and other publi
 cations. His work has been featured in the anthologies Unsavory Elemen
 ts: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China and Inside the Ropes: 
 Sportswriters Get Their Game On. Dan is also the founding editor of Sh
 anghaiist.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\, with his wife Bliss and their dogs Ozzie and Tux. \n\nAb
 out Jeremy Goldkorn:\n\nJeremy Goldkorn is the founder and director of
  Danwei\, a research firm which began life in 2003 as a website and bl
 og that translated and analyzed Chinese media\, Internet\, government 
 regulation\, and censorship. In 2009\, shortly after Goldkorn opened a
  consulting business in Beijing to operate the website\, the site was 
 blocked\, and the company pivoted to providing commercial research ser
 vices. The Financial Times acquired Danwei in 2013. Goldkorn is is co-
 host of the Sinica podcast\, and founder of Great Wall Fresh\, a socia
 l enterprise to help Chinese peasant farmers run small tourism busines
 ses catering to foreign outdoor enthusiasts. Goldkorn's writing\, publ
 ic speaking\, and podcasting activities cover a range of subjects from
  the Chinese internet industry\, media regulation\, Internet business\
 , censorship\, the habits of Chinese Internet users\, Chinese consumer
  culture\, to Sino-African affairs and the Great Wall. He is working o
 n a book on the first 20 years of the Chinese Internet. Goldkorn and h
 is wife\, the musician Wu Fei\, moved to Nashville with their children
  earlier this year. \n\nEvent date: \nThursday\, July 30\, 2015 - 6:30
 pm\nEvent address: \n3900 Hillsboro Pike\nSuite 14\nNashville\, TN 372
 15\n\nhttp://www.parnassusbooks.net/event/author-event-dan-washburn-au
 thor-forbidden-game-golf-and-chinese-dream
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p>Author event with Dan Washburn\, autho
 r of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream</p>\n<p>Please joi
 n Parnassus Books in welcoming author Dan Washburn for a discussion an
 d signing of his book\, The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream
 . Dan will appear in conversation with Jeremy Goldkorn.</p>\n<p>Statis
 tically\, zero percent of the Chinese population plays golf\, a politi
 cally taboo topic still known as the “rich man’s game.” Yet China is i
 n the midst of a golf boom – hundreds of new courses have opened in th
 e past decade\, despite it being illegal to build them. Award-winning 
 journalist Dan Washburn charts a vivid path through this contradictory
  country by following the lives of three men intimately involved in Ch
 ina’s bizarre golf scene. We meet Zhou\, a peasant-turned-golf-pro who
  discovered the game after winning a job as a security guard at an exc
 lusive golf club – and believes golf to be his ticket to joining China
 ’s emerging middle class\; Wang\, a lychee farmer whose life is turned
  upside down when a massive top-secret golf complex moves in next door
  to his tiny ancient village\; and Martin\, a Western executive trying
  to navigate China’s byzantine and highly political business environme
 nt\, ever watchful for Beijing’s “golf police.” The Forbidden Game is 
 a rich and engrossing portrait of the world’s newest superpower and th
 ree very different paths to the Chinese Dream.</p>\n<p>About Dan Washb
 urn: </p>\n<p>Dan Washburn is an award-winning journalist and Chief Co
 ntent Officer at the Asia Society. His writing has appeared in FT Week
 end Magazine\, Slate\, Foreign Policy\, The Atlantic\, The Economist\,
  Golf World\, Golf Digest\, ESPN.com\, The Telegraph\, Quartz\, the So
 uth China Morning Post\, and other publications. His work has been fea
 tured in the anthologies Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on t
 he Loose in China and Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game O
 n. Dan is also the founding editor of Shanghaiist.com\, one of the mos
 t widely read English-language websites about China. After almost a de
 cade in China\, he now lives in Brooklyn\, New York\, with his wife Bl
 iss and their dogs Ozzie and Tux. </p>\n<p>About Jeremy Goldkorn:</p>\
 n<p>Jeremy Goldkorn is the founder and director of Danwei\, a research
  firm which began life in 2003 as a website and blog that translated a
 nd analyzed Chinese media\, Internet\, government regulation\, and cen
 sorship. In 2009\, shortly after Goldkorn opened a consulting business
  in Beijing to operate the website\, the site was blocked\, and the co
 mpany pivoted to providing commercial research services. The Financial
  Times acquired Danwei in 2013. Goldkorn is is co-host of the Sinica p
 odcast\, and founder of Great Wall Fresh\, a social enterprise to help
  Chinese peasant farmers run small tourism businesses catering to fore
 ign outdoor enthusiasts. Goldkorn&#8217\;s writing\, public speaking\,
  and podcasting activities cover a range of subjects from the Chinese 
 internet industry\, media regulation\, Internet business\, censorship\
 , the habits of Chinese Internet users\, Chinese consumer culture\, to
  Sino-African affairs and the Great Wall. He is working on a book on t
 he first 20 years of the Chinese Internet. Goldkorn and his wife\, the
  musician Wu Fei\, moved to Nashville with their children earlier this
  year. </p>\n<p>Event date: <br>\nThursday\, July 30\, 2015 &#8211\; 6
 :30pm<br>\nEvent address: <br>\n3900 Hillsboro Pike<br>\nSuite 14<br>\
 nNashville\, TN 37215</p>\n<p>http://www.parnassusbooks.net/event/auth
 or-event-dan-washburn-author-forbidden-game-golf-and-chinese-dream</p>
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