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

Name: Brave Dragons A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing
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ISBN: 9780307473363

ISBN-10: 0307473368

ISBN-13: 9780307473363

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Authors: Jim Yardley

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The wonderfully original story of a struggling Chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right its fortunes by copying the American stars of the NBA—a season of cultural misunderstanding that transcends sports and reveals China’s ambivalent relationship with the West. When the Shanxi Brave Dragons, one of China’s worst professional basketball teams, hired former NBA coach Bob Weiss, 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. Desperate for his team to play like Americans, Wang—a peasant turned steel…

Book details

List price: $22.95
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 1/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.21" wide x 7.96" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Prologue: Summer 2008



The Foreign Expert



The Purge



Pieces



Basketball Is Life



Shooting the Messengers



Fight



Selling Air



Rumors



The Ambassador



Birthplace of the Game



Merry Christmas



Bodies



Yao's House



Corner Pockets



Red Soldier



LOL



Cast-Outs



The Promised Land



Black Whistles



Tenth Place


Epilogue


Acknowledgments