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Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing

Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing - Paperback

by Jim Yardley
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jim YardleyPublish date:1/22/2013Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307473363ISBN-10:307473368UPC:9780307473363Book Category:Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Basketball, EssaysSize:8.20 x 5.25 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCQ4PWJV3Z

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9780307473363ISBN-10:307473368UPC:9780307473363Book Category:Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Basketball, EssaysSize:8.20 x 5.25 x 0.68 inchesWeight:0.7099Product ID:SCQ4PWJV3Z
Jim Yardley has worked as a journalist for The New York Times for the past fourteen years, including eight years as a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in China and India. His reportage on China's legal system won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting, which he shared with a colleague, Joseph Kahn. He has also won or shared numerous other awards, including the Overseas Press Club Award for best international environmental coverage and the Sigma Delta Chi Award for best foreign reporting from the Society of Professional Journalists. He lives in New Delhi with his wife, Theo, and their three children, Olivia, George, and Eddie.
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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