BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//hacksw/handcal//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260904T004655Z DTSTART:20151104T233000Z DTEND:20151105T003000Z UID:20151104T233000Z-20151105T003000Z-18@danwashburn.com SUMMARY:Queens\, NY DESCRIPTION:Author Event: 'The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dr eam'\nThis free program will take place at Queens Library - Flushing.\ nREGISTER NOW\nAward-winning journalist Dan Washburn discusses of his recent book\, The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream\, which u ses the politically taboo topic of golf to paint what critics have cal led “an illuminating portrait of modern China.” The Forbidden Game fol lows the lives of three men intimately involved in China’s bizarre gol f scene\, where new golf courses are at once banned and booming. Washb urn\, who lived in China from 2002 to 2011\, spent more than seven yea rs researching and writing the book described as “strikingly original” by The Wall Street Journal and “gripping” by The Economist. The Forbi dden Game was named one of the best books of the year by The Financial Times.\nWashburn will be in conversation with Brendan I. Koerner\, th e Queens-based author of the critically-acclaimed The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golden Age of Hijacking and Now the Hell Wi ll Start: One Soldier’s Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II.\nMedia coverage of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream: \n\n \n Birdies\, bribes and bulldozers [The Economist]\n\n\n \n Re view: 'The Forbidden Game' [Wall Street Journal]\n\n\nThis program is part of the Asia Society in Queens series\, a partnership with Queens Library. X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Author Event: ‘\;The Forb idden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream’\;

~~This free program will take place at Queens Library –\; Flushing.~~

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Award-winning journalist Dan Washburn discusses of his recent book\, The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream\, which uses the politically taboo topic of golf to paint what critics h ave called &ldquo\;an illuminating portrait of modern China.&rdquo\; < i>The Forbidden Game follows the lives of three men intimately inv olved in China&rsquo\;s bizarre golf scene\, where new golf courses ar e at once banned and booming. Washburn\, who lived in China from 2002 to 2011\, spent more than seven years researching and writing the book described as &ldquo\;strikingly original&rdquo\; by The Wall Stree t Journal and &ldquo\;gripping&rdquo\; by The Economist. The Forbidden Game was named one of the best books of the year by The Financial Times.
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Washburn will be in conversation with Brendan I. Koerner\, the Queens-based author of the critic ally-acclaimed The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Golde n Age of Hijacking and Now the Hell Will Start: One Soldier&rsq uo\;s Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World War II.
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Me dia coverage of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream:
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\n Birdies\, bribes and bulldozers [The Economist ]
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\n Review: '\;The Forbidden Game'\; [Wall Street Journal]
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This program is part of the " \;Asia Society in Queens"\; series\, a partnership with Queens Lib rary.
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