A chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing ebook. A chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing kindle edition by yardley, jim. Once again inspired by jim yardleys wonderful new book brave dragons. Jim yardleys brave dragons tells the story of an american basketball player and coach recruited to coach a chinese basketball team. Author jim yardley sees basketball as a metaphor for chinas relationship with the rest of the world. The wonderfully original story of a struggling chinese basketball. Jim yardleys approach to the story of the brave dragons, the sometimes hapless team whose fortunes form the core story of the book, is to chat around and about the subject of basketball and the games, and then through this prism, introduce us to background sporting history, his thoughts on chinese politics, and his wry, often hilarious. Brave dragons is to chinese basketball what laura hillenbrands seabiscuit was to depressionera horse racing. The struggling chinese basketball association team was jolted in 2008, when mercurial, interfering shanxi brave dragons owner boss wang imported former nba coach bob weiss to turn his perpetually. Mar 08, 2012 dennis talks to jim yardley, international reporter for the new york times. Confira tambem os ebooks mais vendidos, lancamentos e livros digitais exclusivos. Brave dragons by jim yardley, 9780307272218, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. It seems fitting that brave dragons, jim yardleys rollicking book about basketball in china, should come out just as the world gets swept up in linsanity, the electrifying rise of.
Jim yardley has worked as a journalist for the new york times for the past fourteen years. In many ways, basketball is a metaphor for the emergence of china as an economic power and its relationship with the rest of the world. Oh so brave dragon is a simple tale of a dragon who scares himself with his own roar. Jan 01, 2012 professional basketball and chinese history and culture are not topics commonly lumped together, but jim yardley takes on the challenge in brave dragons. Dennis talks to jim yardley, international reporter for the new york times. Join us for a book talk and signing by pulitzer prizewinning author jim yardley of brave dragons. In brave dragons, which documents the dragons 200809 season, pulitzerwinning washington post critic jim yardley is persuasive in his overall narrative thrust. Brave dragons is thorough micro and macrohistory, capable of sucking in both the basketballobsessed and the nonathletically inclined. More important, yardleys time with the brave dragons afforded him an. Brave dragons a chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing by jim yardley alfred a.
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Wayne wang will direct brave dragons, a film based on jim yardleys new book about an nba coach who moves with his wife to the chinese industrial city taiyuan to coach the. The wonderfully original story of a struggling chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right. A new book follows an american basketball veteran as he coaches a struggling chinese pro basketball team. Readers meet the brave dragons, a cast of colorful.
Read brave dragons a chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing by jim yardley available from rakuten kobo. Jim yardley s brave dragons tells the story of an american basketball player and coach recruited to coach a chinese basketball team. Apr 11, 2012 yet as jim yardley writes in brave dragons, a narrative of the year he spent with a team from the coalbelt city of taiyuan, the league is wary of its foreign imports, limiting roster spots for. Chinese basketball association, the subject of jim yardleys new book. A chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing jim yardley. Jim yardleys brave dragons takes readers courtside for a tipoff between cultures updated jan 12, 2019. The brave dragons put together a decent season, and yardley a memorable book. Jim yardleys brave dragons takes readers courtside for a. Former new york times beijing bureau chief jim yardley tells the story of the resulting culture clash with sensitivity and a keen comic sensibility.
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