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Brave Dragons

By Jim Yardley

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Brave Dragons

By Jim Yardley

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From the former New York Times Beijing bureau chief comes a closely observed story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to make the playoffs by copying the American stars of the NBA. When the worst professional basketball team in China, the Shanxi Brave Dragons, hired former NBA coach Bob Weiss to improve its fortunes, 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. As we follow this team of colorful oddballs on a fascinating road trip through modern China, we see Weiss learn firsthand what so many other foreigners there have discovered: that changing China happens only when and how China wants to be changed.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
338
Release Date:
2013-01-22
Publication Date:
2013-01-22
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0307473368
ISBN13:
9780307473363
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
378 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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