[PDF.14bv] 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

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 | #460744 in Books |  2013-01-22 |  2013-01-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.00 x.65 x5.15l,.71 | File type: PDF | 336 pages

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||10 of 10 people found the following review helpful.| Who Knew!!!|By J. Leonard|Who knew that learning about the culture and politics of contemporary China could be such rolicking good fun! The author introduces us to an American former NBA player and coach and his wife, strangers in a really strange land indeed, hired by a Chinese basketball team owner to bring the "NBA WAY" to his failing team, the Brave Dragons; and foreign b| || “Rollicking . . . Lively and often hilarious . . . Yardley’s tale resonates far beyond sports . . . He manages to capture, in touchingly human detail, the essence of a nation in transition.”|-Brook Larmer, The Washington Post |&

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 wou...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Brave Dragons: A Chinese Basketball Team, an American Coach, and Two Cultures Clashing   |  Jim Yardley.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.

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