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The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West.
When the Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of China’s worst professional basketball teams, hired former NBA coach Bob Weiss, the team’s owner, Boss Wang, promised that Weiss would be allowed to Americanize his players by teaching them “advanced basketball culture.” That promise would be broken from the moment Weiss landed in China. Desperate for his team to play like Americans, Wang—a peasant turned steel tycoon—nevertheless refused to allow his players the freedom and individual expression necessary to truly change their games.
Former New York Times Beijing bureau chief Jim Yardley tells the story of the resulting culture clash with sensitivity and a keen comic sensibility. Readers meet the Brave Dragons, a cast of colorful, sometimes heartbreaking oddballs from around the world: the ambitious Chinese assistant coach, Liu Tie, who believes that Chinese players are genetically inferior and can improve only through the repetitious drilling once advocated by ancient kung fu masters; the moody and selfish American import, Bonzi Wells, a former NBA star so unnerved by China that initially he locks himself in his apartment; the Taiwanese point guard, Little Sun, who is demonized by his mainland Chinese coaches; and the other Chinese players, whose lives sometimes seem little different from those of factory workers.
As readers follow the team on a fascinating road trip through modern China—from glamorous Shanghai and bureaucratic Beijing to the booming port city Tianjin and the polluted coal capital of Taiyuan—we see Weiss learn firsthand what so many other foreigners in China have discovered: China changes only when and how it wants to change.
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There is no question that Brave Dragons is aimed at audience with little knowledge of China as many insights provided in the book can be considered obvious for Chinese readers. But I can only imagine the strangeness and exoticism that it may have on foreign...
評分There is no question that Brave Dragons is aimed at audience with little knowledge of China as many insights provided in the book can be considered obvious for Chinese readers. But I can only imagine the strangeness and exoticism that it may have on foreign...
評分There is no question that Brave Dragons is aimed at audience with little knowledge of China as many insights provided in the book can be considered obvious for Chinese readers. But I can only imagine the strangeness and exoticism that it may have on foreign...
評分There is no question that Brave Dragons is aimed at audience with little knowledge of China as many insights provided in the book can be considered obvious for Chinese readers. But I can only imagine the strangeness and exoticism that it may have on foreign...
評分There is no question that Brave Dragons is aimed at audience with little knowledge of China as many insights provided in the book can be considered obvious for Chinese readers. But I can only imagine the strangeness and exoticism that it may have on foreign...
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說實話，在讀《Brave Dragons》之前，我對這類題材的書籍並沒有太多的期待。我通常更偏愛一些寫實的文學作品，但這次我真的被它徹底徵服瞭。這本書的敘事方式非常獨特，它不像我之前讀過的很多奇幻小說那樣，一開始就鋪陳大量的背景信息，而是將這些信息巧妙地融入到故事的進程中，讓我一點一點地去發現和理解這個世界。這種“抽絲剝繭”的閱讀體驗，反而讓我更加投入。而且，作者對於人物內心的刻畫也相當細膩。書中不僅僅有英勇無畏的英雄，還有那些在內心中掙紮、猶豫，甚至犯錯的角色。這些角色的存在，讓整個故事更加真實，也更容易引起讀者的共鳴。我尤其欣賞作者對於人物成長的描寫，看著他們在經曆磨難後，如何一點點地變得更加成熟、更加強大，這是一種非常鼓舞人心的過程。這本書給我帶來的不僅僅是閱讀的樂趣，更是一種精神上的啓迪。它讓我思考，即使麵對再大的睏難，隻要心中有勇氣，有信念，就一定能夠找到屬於自己的齣路。我強烈建議所有正在尋找一本能夠觸動心靈、激發鬥誌的書籍的讀者，不要錯過《Brave Dragons》。
评分哇，這本書簡直太棒瞭！我一開始拿到《Brave Dragons》這本書的時候，並沒有抱太大的期望，畢竟書名聽起來有點……嗯，直接？但當我翻開第一頁，就被深深地吸引住瞭。作者的文字有一種魔力，能夠將我瞬間拉入那個充滿奇幻色彩的世界。故事的開端就設定在一個我從未想象過的國度，那裏有飛舞在天際的奇異生物，有隱藏在古老森林深處的秘密，更有像書中主角那樣，擁有著不屈精神的勇者。我尤其喜歡作者對於細節的描繪，無論是宏偉的城堡建築，還是微小到一顆露珠在陽光下摺射齣的光芒，都被刻畫得栩栩如生。閱讀的過程就像在經曆一場驚心動魄的冒險，我跟著角色們一起感受他們的喜悅、他們的恐懼，以及他們在逆境中爆發齣的勇氣。這本書最讓我驚喜的地方在於，它不僅僅是一個簡單的冒險故事，它還探討瞭一些關於成長、關於友誼，甚至關於麵對內心恐懼的深刻主題。我常常會在讀到某個章節時停下來，思考書中的人物是如何做齣選擇的，以及這些選擇對他們産生瞭怎樣的影響。那種代入感，那種情感上的共鳴，是我很久沒有在閱讀中感受到的瞭。我強烈推薦給所有喜歡奇幻、喜歡冒險，或者僅僅是想在閱讀中找到片刻逃離現實的人們。這本書絕對不會讓你失望！
评分如果說要用一個詞來形容《Brave Dragons》這本書，那一定是“驚喜連連”。我平時閱讀的範圍比較廣，涉獵過不少不同類型的書籍，但這本書無疑是我近段時間讀到的最讓我眼前一亮的作品之一。它有一個非常吸引人的開篇，讓我立刻就被帶入瞭故事的節奏。作者的文筆非常老練，文字流暢而富有感染力，能夠輕鬆地勾勒齣一幅幅生動的畫麵。我尤其喜歡作者在處理一些復雜的情感綫時所展現齣的細膩和深刻。書中角色的每一次選擇，每一次心路曆程的轉變，都被刻畫得淋灕盡緻，讓我能夠感同身受，仿佛也經曆瞭一遍。而且，這本書的節奏把握得非常好，有緊張刺激的冒險，也有溫情脈脈的時刻，更有發人深省的思考。讀完之後，我並沒有立刻放下書，而是沉浸在故事的餘韻中，迴味著書中那些精彩的片段和深刻的哲理。這本書給我帶來的不僅僅是閱讀的愉悅，更是一種精神上的洗禮。它讓我看到瞭勇氣和希望的力量，也讓我重新審視瞭自己內心深處的一些東西。我真心希望更多的人能夠有機會讀到這本書，相信它一定會給你帶來不一樣的感受。
评分《Brave Dragons》這本書，真的給瞭我太多驚喜！我一直以為奇幻小說就是關於魔法和戰鬥，但這本書卻遠遠超齣瞭我的想象。作者在創造這個奇幻世界的同時，也注入瞭非常多現實的元素。比如，書中對於不同族群之間的矛盾衝突的描寫，就讓我看到瞭現實社會的一些縮影。這種將虛構與現實巧妙結閤的方式，讓整個故事更加引人深思。我特彆喜歡作者在描寫戰鬥場麵時的筆觸，那種緊張刺激的感覺，讓我仿佛置身於戰場之上，能夠感受到刀劍碰撞的火花，聽到震耳欲聾的呐喊聲。但同時，作者又沒有過度渲染暴力，而是將更多的筆墨放在瞭角色們在戰鬥中的策略、智慧以及他們之間的團隊閤作上。這讓戰鬥不僅僅是力量的比拼，更是智慧和勇氣的較量。而且，這本書的角色塑造也十分立體。每個人物都有自己的優點和缺點，都有自己的故事和動機，他們都不是完美的，但也正是因為他們的不完美，纔讓他們顯得如此真實和可愛。我真的很喜歡這本書，它讓我看到瞭一個充滿無限可能的世界，也讓我相信，隻要我們敢於麵對挑戰，我們也能成為自己生活中的“Brave Dragons”。
评分我必須承認，《Brave Dragons》這本書的封麵設計真的很吸引人，那色彩斑斕的龍，還有那種充滿力量感的字體，瞬間就擊中瞭我的“書荒”癥。然後，我迫不及待地開始閱讀，結果發現，它的內容比我想象的還要精彩得多！這本書構建瞭一個宏大的世界觀，讓我仿佛置身其中，能夠感受到不同地域的風土人情，聽到各種奇特的語言，甚至聞到空氣中彌漫著的神秘香料的味道。作者的想象力簡直是天馬行空，創造齣瞭許多令人印象深刻的角色。我特彆喜歡其中的一位配角，他雖然戲份不多，但每一次齣現都恰到好處，為整個故事增添瞭不少趣味和深度。而且，這本書的情節發展也很流暢，沒有那種拖泥帶水的感覺，每一個事件的發生都有其必然性，環環相扣，引人入勝。我常常會在睡前讀上幾頁，結果不知不覺就讀到瞭淩晨。這種“停不下來”的感覺，絕對是衡量一本好書的重要標準之一。更重要的是，這本書在緊張刺激的冒險中，還穿插瞭許多令人捧腹的幽默橋段，讓我既能為角色的命運擔憂，又能因為他們的玩笑而開懷大笑。這種情緒的起伏，讓閱讀體驗更加豐富多彩。
评分Loved this book! As long as you're even remotely interested in Chinese sports it's worth a read and it's easy to fly through it.
评分Loved this book! As long as you're even remotely interested in Chinese sports it's worth a read and it's easy to fly through it.
评分題材有趣，但人物都寫得不仔細，與其寫太多關於中美關係等高大上的內容，不如像The Breaks of the Game仔細寫好眼前的人物
评分題材有趣，但人物都寫得不仔細，與其寫太多關於中美關係等高大上的內容，不如像The Breaks of the Game仔細寫好眼前的人物
评分It is possible to move from a good ethnographer to a good journalist, not the other way around though. Most interesting quote: "The court was the same, the ball was the same, the rules of the game were the same, but everything else was different"
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