Benjamin Haas reports: For years golf was banned as a bourgeois indulgence, and more recently China’s 85 million Communist party members were forbidden from playing the sport amid a broad crackdown on corruption. The regulation was later lifted – as long as cadres hit the links at their own expense. In one notorious case, a […]
Tripti Lahiri and Isabella Steger, reporting for Quartz: In his 2014 book on golf in China, The Forbidden Game, Dan Washburn chronicled how a 2004 ban on the construction of new golf courses was accompanied by the building of more golf courses than ever. “People unfamiliar with the way China works often express confusion as to […]
Steven Jiang writes: Xi, an avid soccer fan, isn’t known to be a golfer — and he’s been waging a war on the sport in his country. Since he came to power nearly five years ago, Xi’s government has shut down scores of golf courses across China and effectively banned the 88 million members of […]
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