Listen to BBC’s Paul Henley talk to Dan Washburn below. This interview originally ran on June 21, 2014, as part of BBC World Service’s Weekend show.
Read MoreListen: BBC World Service talks to Dan Washburn about China’s ‘forbidden game’ — golf
Listen: PRI’s ‘The World’ on Forbidden Game and ‘ultimate underdog’ Zhou Xunshu
Listen to Clark Boyd’s interview with Dan Washburn below: Read the full report at PRI.org.
Read MoreListen: WNYC’s Leonard Lopate interviews Forbidden Game author Dan Washburn
Read the story at WNYC.
Read MoreListen: Jian Ghomeshi interviews Dan Washburn about China’s Forbidden Game
Read the writeup on Q with Jian Ghomeshi.
Read MoreRead an exclusive Forbidden Game excerpt on Shanghaiist
The $40 million Chinese golf course (that’s now underwater) It’s been 10 years since the Chinese government made building new golf courses illegal. And, over the course of those 10 years, no country has built more golf courses than China. The reason local officials are …
Read MoreFinancial Times review calls Forbidden Game ‘excellent,’ ‘colorful’
In 1995, Zhou Xunshu dropped out of security guard school in the province of Guizhou and made his way south to Guangdong, China’s manufacturing heartland. With almost no money in his pocket, he was following the well-worn tracks of millions of young migrant workers hoping …
Read More‘China’s Quandary,’ my column in this week’s Golf World magazine
I’ve got a column in the July 7, 2014, issue of Golf World magazine. It’s called “China’s Quandary: Big Country Has a Small, Complicated Interest in the Game,” and unfortunately it’s not available online. You can, however, buy a digital edition on Google Play’s Newsstand …
Read MoreIn the UK’s Literary Review, Jonathan Mirsky calls Forbidden Game ‘vivid’ and ‘revealing’
Jonathan Mirsky writes: There are two books here. One is about the intricacies and arcana of golf — irons, niblicks, drivers, pars, cuts, and so on. If you are a golf maven, go for it. But the other book is on a wholly different matter: …
Read MoreIn enthusiastic review, The Wall Street Journal calls Forbidden Game ‘strikingly original’ and ‘gripping’
Edward Chancellor writes: Attempts to explain China’s recent history often fall back on statistics showing the country’s breakneck economic growth: how many tons of steel have been produced, how many miles of high-speed rail constructed. The trouble with this approach is that the figures are …
Read MoreWatch: In-studio interview with Golf.com
Last week I sat down with Jessica Marksbury in Golf.com’s New York studio to talk about The Forbidden Game and China’s complicated relationship with golf. Watch above, or click here. I was also quoted in a related story, “China’s recent golf course crackdown masks staggering …
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