{"product_id":"9781786070203","title":"The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn China, just because something is banned, doesn't mean it can't boom...\u003c\/b\u003e Statistically, zero percent of the Chinese population plays golf, still known as the \"rich man’s game\" and considered taboo. Yet China is in the midst of a golf boom — hundreds of new courses have opened in the past decade, despite it being illegal for anyone to build them. Award-winning journalist Dan Washburn charts a vivid path through this contradictory country by following the lives of three men intimately involved in China's bizarre golf scene. We meet Zhou, a peasant turned golf pro who discovered the game when he won a job as a security guard at one of the new, exclusive clubs and who sees himself entering the emerging Chinese middle class as a result; Wang, a lychee farmer whose life is turned upside down when a massive, top-secret golf resort moves in next door to his tiny village; and Martin, a Western executive maneuvering through China’s byzantine and highly political business environment, ever watchful for Beijing's \"golf police.\" \u003ci\u003eThe Forbidden Game\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich and arresting portrait of the world’s newest superpower and three different paths to the new Chinese Dream.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oneworld Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47140134093040,"sku":"9781786070203","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781786070203_p0.jpg?v=1763728556","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781786070203","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}