Brave Dragons by Jim Yardley

Brave Dragons by Jim Yardley

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.

Over the past fourteen years, Jim Yardley has worked as a journalist for The New York Times, including eight years as a foreign reporter and bureau chief in China and India. He shared the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting with a colleague, Joseph Kahn, for his reporting on China's legal system. He has also won or shared a number of other honors, including the Overseas Press Club Award for outstanding international environmental coverage and the Society of Professional Journalists' Sigma Delta Chi Award for best overseas reporting. He and his wife, Theo, live in New Delhi with their three children, Olivia, George, and Eddie.

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ISBN 13	9780307473363
ISBN 10	0307473368
Title	Brave Dragons
Author	Jim Yardley
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2013-01-22
Number of pages	336
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