The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream – A book by Dan Washburn
Official website for The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream, the new book about golf in China – and so much more – by award-winning journalist Dan Washburn.
While in Beijing recently, I sat down with Kaiser Kuo and Jeremy Goldkorn to record an episode of their popular Sinica podcast. You can listen to it below, or read more at ChinaFile.
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From the Q&A with New York Times reporter Austin Ramzy: What were your first interactions with golf like in China? Did you play much while you lived in Shanghai? I actually don’t golf, so it’s a good thing my book isn’t a how-to. My first …
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From the Q&A with Justin McDonnell: How did Forbidden Game come to fruition? I guess you could say it’s been nearly a decade in the making. Not long after I started writing about the topic, I realized the story of golf in China is much …
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Listen to BBC’s Paul Henley talk to Dan Washburn below. This interview originally ran on June 21, 2014, as part of BBC World Service’s Weekend show.
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Listen to Clark Boyd’s interview with Dan Washburn below: Read the full report at PRI.org.
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Read the story at WNYC.
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Read the writeup on Q with Jian Ghomeshi.
Read MoreFergus Ryan writes: In his revealing and fascinating book, Washburn looks at China’s recent development through the lens of a game that was denounced by Chairman Mao as a “sport for millionaires” when the Communists took control in 1949, and was completely banned until 1984. …
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Last week I sat down with Jessica Marksbury in Golf.com’s New York studio to talk about The Forbidden Game and China’s complicated relationship with golf. Watch above, or click here. I was also quoted in a related story, “China’s recent golf course crackdown masks staggering …
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Here’s a snippet of my chat with The Wall Street Journal’s Alyssa Abkowitz: THERE’S A BAN ON GOLF COURSE DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA AND YET GOLF IS BOOMING. HOW DOES THAT WORK? There’s a [Chinese] saying I have in the book, “the mountain is high but …
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