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The Forbidden Game (non-fiction book)
''The Forbidden Game: Golf and the Chinese Dream'' is a non-fiction book by Dan Washburn, an American journalist who was based in Shanghai, China from 2002 to 2011. It was published by Oneworld Publications in 2014. In the book, Washburn uses the contradictory emergence of golf as a "metaphor for modern China."〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.houstonchronicle.com/life/books/article/Author-Dan-Washburn-explores-how-sport-has-become-6005068.php )〕 ''The Financial Times'' named ''The Forbidden Game'' one of the best books of 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/d79f160a-76bb-11e4-8273-00144feabdc0.html )〕
== Summary ==
In an interview with ''The New York Times'' Washburn said the "complex world surrounding" golf "seemed to be, in many ways, a microcosm of the China I was living in."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/q-and-a-dan-washburn-on-the-forbidden-game/ )〕 In the book's prologue Washburn writes that the growth of golf in China, where construction of new golf courses is officially banned, is "a barometer" for "the country's rapid economic rise" but that "it is also symbolic of the less glamorous realities of a nation’s awkward and arduous evolution from developing to developed: corruption, environmental neglect, disputes over rural land rights and an ever-widening gap between rich and poor."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8_-uAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=The%20Forbidden%20Game%3A%20Golf%20and%20the%20Chinese%20Dream&pg=PR11#v=onepage&q&f=false )〕
According to a review in ''The Wall Street Journal'', Washburn tells his story "through the lives of three protagonists: Zhou, a migrant worker who takes a job as a security guard but strives to become a professional golfer; Wang, a farmer on the tropical island of Hainan—China's Hawaii—who finds a new vocation as a restaurant owner after his land is given over to a golf course; and Martin, a hard-working and foul-mouthed American golf-course contractor."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/book-review-the-forbidden-game-by-dan-washburn-1404684064 )〕
Washburn has said he wanted the book to "read more like a novel () to be alive and character-driven — more show than tell."〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2014/11/cdt-bookshelf-dan-washburn-golf-china/ )〕 Washburn reportedly spent more than seven years researching and writing the book.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://annenberg.usc.edu/events/dan-washburn-and-karl-taro-greenfeld-forbidden-game-golf-and-chinese-dream )〕
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