{"id":2011,"date":"2015-04-06T17:43:13","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T21:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:01","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:01","slug":"forbes-why-chinas-illegal-golf-boom-is-coming-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/forbes-why-chinas-illegal-golf-boom-is-coming-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Forbes: Why China&#8217;s &#8216;Illegal&#8217; Golf Boom Is Coming To An End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Johan Nylander focuses heavily on <em>The Forbidden Game<\/em> in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jnylander\/2015\/03\/30\/why-chinas-illegal-golf-boom-is-coming-to-an-end\/\" target=\"_blank\">his piece for <em>Forbes<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>So how can something be booming and illegal at the same time?<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n\u201cGolf is a politically taboo topic and tightly linked to corruption,\u201d Dan Washburn said during a speech at the Foreign Correspondents\u2019 Club in Hong Kong. \u201cNo golf course is being built in China without government involvement.\u201d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nDevelopers and local officials have typically side-stepped the restrictions by filing applications that designate the projects as sports training facilities, eco-parks or other creative types of developments. \u201cRule number one when building a golf course: don\u2019t call it a golf course,\u201d Washburn said.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nIn his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/The-Forbidden-Game-Chinese-Dream\/dp\/1851689486\">book<\/a>\u00a0\u201cThe Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream\u201d, he states that golf isn\u2019t just a barometer for the country\u2019s rapid economic rise. It also allows us to examine major concerns, such as the ever widening gap between rich and poor, rural land rights disputes, environmental concerns, a real-estate bubble and \u201cplenty and plenty of corruption\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the whole thing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/jnylander\/2015\/03\/30\/why-chinas-illegal-golf-boom-is-coming-to-an-end\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Johan Nylander focuses heavily on The Forbidden Game in his piece for Forbes: So how can something be booming and illegal at the same time? &nbsp; \u201cGolf is a politically taboo topic and tightly linked to corruption,\u201d Dan Washburn said during a speech at the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[362,115,356,43,21],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured","tag-fcc","tag-forbes","tag-hong-kong","tag-interviews","tag-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011","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=2011"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2013,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2011\/revisions\/2013"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}