具体描述
In China, just because something is banned, doesn't mean it can't boom... 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." The Forbidden Game is a rich and arresting portrait of the world’s newest superpower and three different paths to the new Chinese Dream.
作者简介
Dan Washburn is an award-winning reporter and managing editor at the Asia Society. His writing has appeared in the FT Weekend Magazine, the Atlantic, The Economist, ESPN.com, Foreign Policy, Golf World, Slate, the South China Morning Post, and other publications. Washburn's work has been featured in the anthologies Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China and Inside the Ropes: Sportwriters Get Their Game On. He is also the founding editor of Shanghaiist.com, one of the most widely read English-language websites about China. After almost a decade spent living in China, he now lives in Brooklyn, New York.
目录信息
1. Foundations
2. First Club
3. Keep Moving
4. Playing the Game
5. No Choice
6. The Mountain Is High
7. Scrape the Bone, Dry the Glass
8. Time to Make Claims
9. Homecomings
10. Striking Black
11. The Golf Police
12. The Road Is Wider
13. Chasing the Next Dream
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Index
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读后感
用户评价
这部作品的文学价值是毋庸置疑的，它的语言运用达到了近乎诗歌的境地。我读到某些段落时，不得不停下来，反复默读几遍，去体会那些精妙的词语搭配和句式结构带来的韵律感。这本书的“质感”非常强，你能清晰地感受到作者对每一个词汇的选择都经过了千锤百炼。它不是那种一眼就能望到底的小溪，而是一条深邃的河流，水面平静，但水下却蕴藏着巨大的暗流和复杂的生态系统。故事的主题宏大而深刻，探讨了权力、欲望与自由之间的永恒博弈，但作者却巧妙地将这些宏大的命题，融入到极具生活气息的细节描绘之中，使得理论不再是空泛的，而是变得鲜活而触手可及。对于喜欢钻研文学技巧和语言艺术的读者来说，这本书简直是一座宝库，值得反复研读，从中汲取营养。
老实说，这本书的阅读体验是相当颠覆性的。它不拘泥于传统的叙事框架，大量运用了意识流的手法，读起来颇有些挑战性，但一旦适应了那种跳跃式的思维，便会发现其中蕴含的巨大能量。我必须承认，开头部分我花了比平时多一倍的时间来适应这种叙事风格，感觉自己像是在迷雾中摸索，每一个句子都像一个单独的符号，需要自己去解读其背后的深层含义。然而，一旦关键的线索被捕捉到，那种豁然开朗的体验是无与伦比的。作者似乎并不急于给出一个明确的答案，而是将许多开放性的问题抛给了读者，鼓励我们去参与到构建故事意义的过程中去。这本书更像是一次智力上的探险，而不是简单的消遣。它对人性中那些阴暗面和禁忌的探讨，显得尤为大胆和深刻，让人在感到震惊的同时，也不得不反思自身存在的边界。
初读这本书时，我以为我正在阅读一个关于某个特定历史背景下的故事，但随着情节的深入，我意识到作者的野心远不止于此。这本书的核心更像是一个寓言，一个关于人类集体心理的深刻剖析。书中的角色往往被置于极端的情境下，他们的反应和选择，像是在进行一场场社会实验，精准地暴露了人在压力面前的真实面貌。我尤其欣赏作者在处理冲突时的克制与爆发力，那些看似微不足道的摩擦，往往在不知不觉中累积成无法挽回的灾难，这种铺陈的手法，比直接的暴力场面更令人感到恐惧。它探讨了“规则”与“反叛”的辩证关系，让人不禁思考，我们赖以生存的秩序，究竟是保护伞，还是束缚我们的牢笼？这本书的后劲很足，读完很久之后，那种挥之不去的忧虑感仍然萦绕心头，促使我不断地去审视周遭的世界。
坦白讲，这本书的阅读体验是极其耗费心神的，它要求读者保持高度的专注力，并且愿意接受故事中弥漫的、近乎病态的张力。作者似乎并不在乎读者是否会“喜欢”这个故事，他更在乎的是能否精准地传达出那种被困住、被审视、无法逃脱的心理状态。书中的场景转换常常出人意料，使得整个阅读过程充满了不确定性，你永远不知道下一秒会从哪个角落冒出新的谜团。我特别留意到作者对“等待”这一状态的描写，那种时间被拉长、被扭曲的感觉，被描绘得淋漓尽致，几乎能让人感同身受。这本书成功地营造了一种让人既渴望深入又害怕被吞噬的矛盾心理。它不是那种读完会让你心情愉悦的作品，但绝对是能让你在精神层面获得一次深刻洗礼的体验，其带来的冲击力是持久而强烈的。
这部小说带给我的感受，简直就像是坠入了一个色彩斑斓却又暗流涌动的梦境。作者的笔触极其细腻，即便是描写最寻常的场景，也能从中挖掘出一种令人不安的美感。故事的节奏掌握得恰到好处，它不像那些快节奏的悬疑小说那样一上来就抛出重磅炸弹，而是像一个技艺高超的织工，慢慢地将线索编织进叙事之中，让你在不经意间发现自己早已深陷其中。我特别欣赏作者对于人物内心世界的刻画，那些复杂的动机、难以言喻的挣扎，都被描绘得入木三分，让我常常在深夜里合上书本后，还会对着天花板回味角色的每一次抉择。书中的环境描写也令人印象深刻，那种独特的地域风貌和历史沉淀感，仿佛能通过文字的缝隙渗透出来，让读者身临其境，感受到那种特有的压抑与诱惑并存的氛围。这本书的魅力就在于它的多义性，每一次重读，或许都会有新的理解和感悟，这绝对是一部值得细细品味的佳作。
After reading this book, i found some personal stories, like Zhou very funny, but only use three stories to project the broad problems facing china at large is not convincing. After profound changes since opening up and reform, the stories in China is more than these three stories, and China has transformed in a way beyond the author's mind.
一般....牵强附会的地方太多了 适合不了解中国但需要装做很了解中国的老外看。
一般....牵强附会的地方太多了 适合不了解中国但需要装做很了解中国的老外看。
After reading this book, i found some personal stories, like Zhou very funny, but only use three stories to project the broad problems facing china at large is not convincing. After profound changes since opening up and reform, the stories in China is more than these three stories, and China has transformed in a way beyond the author's mind.
一般....牵强附会的地方太多了 适合不了解中国但需要装做很了解中国的老外看。
