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Dan Washburn is an award-winning journalist and author of The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream , which The Wall Street Journal called "strikingly original," The Economist called "gripping," and The Financial Times named one of the Best Books of 2014. Dan's writing has appeared in The New York Times, FT Weekend Magazine, Slate, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, The Economist, Golf World, Golf Digest, ESPN.com, The Telegraph, Quartz, CNN Money, the South China Morning Post, and other publications. His work has been featured in the anthologies Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China and Inside the Ropes: Sportswriters Get Their Game On. Dan is also the founding editor of Shanghaiist.com, one of the most widely r ...more

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	Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China by Tom Carter (Editor), Dominic Stevenson (Contributor), Peter Hessler (Contributor) 3.59 avg rating — 198 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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WSJ: Why Golf Can’t Catch a Break in China

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China has nearly 1.4 billion people, but at most perhaps three million golfers, Gilligan said. New golf-course construction has technically been banned since 2004, and the country has less than 500 courses—compared with more than 14,000 in the U.S.

The sport has long been a symbol of Western excess in the minds of many Chinese, said Dan Washburn, author of “The Forbidden G

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“The best golfers are the ones who are good at forgetting, the ones who realize the only thing they can control is their attitude toward the next swing.”
― Dan Washburn, Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream

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“From 2005 to 2010, the number of Chinese courses tripled to more than six hundred. An impressive feat, especially when you consider that building new courses has been technically illegal in China since at least 2004.”
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“It’s a China thing,” he said. “They screw everybody, so they think everybody screws them.”
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