{"id":1706,"date":"2014-07-01T22:22:23","date_gmt":"2014-07-02T02:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=1706"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:05","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:05","slug":"australias-business-spectator-calls-forbidden-game-revealing-and-fascinating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/australias-business-spectator-calls-forbidden-game-revealing-and-fascinating\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia&#8217;s <em>Business Spectator<\/em> calls <em>Forbidden Game<\/em> &#8216;revealing and fascinating&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fergus Ryan writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his revealing and fascinating book, Washburn looks at China\u2019s recent development through the lens of a game that was denounced by Chairman Mao as a \u201csport for millionaires&#8221; when the Communists took control in 1949, and was completely banned until 1984.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Golf is a topic that touches on a lot of issues at the heart of what China\u2019s going through at this stage of its development,&#8221; Washburn told China Spectator.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a barometer for economic growth but it\u2019s also a symbol for the environmental issues the country faces, of the gap between rich and poor that is growing wider everyday. It allows you to talk about the kind of Wild West real estate development that\u2019s happening, and then of course it&#8217;s got its fair share of political corruption and intrigue.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessspectator.com.au\/article\/2014\/7\/2\/china\/corruption-par-course-china\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fergus Ryan writes: In his revealing and fascinating book, Washburn looks at China\u2019s recent development through the lens of a game that was denounced by Chairman Mao as a \u201csport for millionaires&#8221; when the Communists took control in 1949, and was completely banned until 1984. &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,292,291,43],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-australia","tag-business-spectator","tag-china-spectator","tag-interviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"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=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1707,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}