{"id":615,"date":"2010-03-09T18:20:19","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T10:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.parforchina.com\/?p=615"},"modified":"2016-05-16T11:58:12","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T15:58:12","slug":"photos-chinas-golf-police-destroy-tournament-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/photos-chinas-golf-police-destroy-tournament-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: China&#8217;s &#8216;golf police&#8217; destroy tournament course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_641\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-641\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/parforchina.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kingvalley-destruction-ryanpyle.jpg\" alt=\"Photo by Ryan Pyle\" title=\"King Valley golf course destruction, Anji, China\" width=\"400\" height=\"263\" class=\"size-full wp-image-641\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kingvalley-destruction-ryanpyle.jpg 400w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kingvalley-destruction-ryanpyle-300x197.jpg 300w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kingvalley-destruction-ryanpyle-260x170.jpg 260w, http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/kingvalley-destruction-ryanpyle-360x236.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-641\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ryan Pyle<\/figcaption><\/figure>Less than one week after Chinese Ministry of Land and Resources officials announced a crackdown on illegal land use, including golf courses, government inspectors arrived at King Valley Country Club in Zhejiang province&#8217;s Anji county. Less than one week after that, bulldozers showed up and started tearing up fairways on King Valley&#8217;s tournament golf course.<\/p>\n<p>The government&#8217;s case was simple: King Valley did not have proper approval to develop around a quarter of its land, and some of the land they used was protected farmland. And anyway, all golf course development in China was supposedly made illegal in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Look closer, however, and things get murky. There\u2019s corruption, betrayal and pissed off peasant farmers. There are policies from Beijing, and counter-policies in the provinces. And to golf professionals working in China, all that sounds like just another day at the office.<\/p>\n<p>Read the whole story, entitled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/id\/2246914\/pagenum\/all\/\">The Forbidden Game<\/a>,&#8221; at <em>Slate<\/em>, and please enjoy the related photo essay below, featuring images from Shanghai-based documentary photographer <a href=\"http:\/\/ryanpyle.com\">Ryan Pyle<\/a>. Just click on one of the thumbnails to get started.<\/p>\n<p>[nggallery id=1]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Less than one week after Chinese Ministry of Land and Resources officials announced a crackdown on illegal land use, including golf courses, government inspectors arrived at King Valley Country Club in Zhejiang province&#8217;s Anji county. Less than one week after that, bulldozers showed up and &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":[72,375,4,73,74,7,75,76,77,78,70,71,79,80],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-anji","tag-blog","tag-china","tag-crackdown","tag-disputes","tag-golf","tag-illegal","tag-jianshan","tag-king-valley","tag-land","tag-photos","tag-ryan-pyle","tag-slate","tag-zhejiang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","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=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/2119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danwashburn.com\/forbiddengame\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}