{"id":33,"date":"2014-02-25T22:05:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T03:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?page_id=33"},"modified":"2023-08-25T11:05:46","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T15:05:46","slug":"the-book","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/the-book\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8VGFmm3hST0?rel=0&amp;showinfo=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<h2>\u2032One of the best books of 2014\u2032<\/h2>\n<h4><em>The Financial Times<\/em><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><i>In China, just because something is banned, doesn&#8217;t mean it can&#8217;t boom \u2026<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In October 2015, the Chinese Communist Party banned its 88 million members from excessive drinking, improper sexual relationships \u2026 and holding golf club memberships. But, with &#8220;the rich man&#8217;s game\u201d about to appear in the Olympics for the first time in 112 years, they also began to spend unprecedented sums on their own national golf team.<\/p>\n<p>Through the lives of three men intimately involved in China&#8217;s bizarre golf scene, award-winning journalist Dan Washburn paints an arresting portrait of a country of contradictions. A villager named Wang sees his life transformed when a top-secret golf resort springs up next to his farm \u2014 despite the building of golf courses being illegal. Western executive Martin, whose firm manages the construction of golf courses, is always looking over his shoulder for Beijing&#8217;s &#8220;golf police.\u201d And for security guard Zhou, making it as a professional golfer could be his way into China&#8217;s new middle class.<\/p>\n<p>Using the unique lens of The Forbidden Game, Washburn gleans rich insights into the politics and people of one of the most powerful and enigmatic nations on earth.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/praise\/\">Click here to read reviews and advance praise for <em>The Forbidden Game<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Order your copy today:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Forbidden-Game-Golf-Chinese-Dream\/dp\/178074739X\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon.com<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/Forbidden-Game-Golf-Chinese-Dream\/dp\/178074739X\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amazon.co.uk<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/the-forbidden-game-dan-washburn\/1117509585\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Barnes &amp; Noble<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiebound.org\/book\/9781780747392\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indiebound<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/book\/the-forbidden-game\/id1110069983?mt=11\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">iTunes<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.powells.com\/book\/the-forbidden-game-9781780747392\/62-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Powell&#8217;s Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/106987833?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p><strong>Downloads:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream by Dan Washburn - Cover\" href=\"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/The_Forbidden_Game_Dan_Washburn_cover.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Forbidden Game<\/em> cover image<\/a> [1.4 MB]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2032One of the best books of 2014\u2032 The Financial Times &nbsp; In China, just because something is banned, doesn&#8217;t mean it can&#8217;t boom \u2026 In October 2015, the Chinese Communist Party banned its 88 million members from excessive drinking, improper sexual relationships \u2026 and holding &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-33","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2299,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/33\/revisions\/2299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}