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

Yardley, Jim

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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.

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KNOPF DOUBLEDAY PUB GROUP

Bisac Major Subject

Sports & Recreation

Bisac Minor Subject

Basketball

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Paperback

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Length

8.2 Inches

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EAN

Width

5.25 Inches

Publication Date

2013-01-22

Height

0.68 Inches

ISBN 10

0307473368

Weight

0.71 Pounds

Book EAN

9780307473363

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Adults

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