Join us for a book talk and signing by pulitzer prizewinning author jim yardley of brave dragons. The brave dragons put together a decent season, and yardley a memorable book. Brave dragons by the american journalist jim yardley, really is about the shanxi brave dragons based in taiyuan, their unpredictable owner boss wang xingjiang, their 200809 season in the chinese basketball association, and about bob weiss, the first former nba bench boss to work in china, and the very mixed bag of players he had to work. Readers meet the brave dragons, a cast of colorful. Readers meet the brave dragons, a cast of colorful, sometimes heartbreaking oddballs from around the world.
The wonderfully original story of a struggling chinese basketball. Jim yardleys brave dragons takes readers courtside for a. Through basketball, yardley alludes to china as the factory of the world. To do china, learn china, says author triangle business. In writing brave dragons, jim yardley encapsulates his fourteen years as a success ftil journalist for the new york times through the medium of basketball. An adaptation of jim yardleys nonfiction story brave dragons, the book is officially described as follows. 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. The first sign that brave dragons is about more than basketball appears early. Chinese basketball association, the subject of jim yardleys new book. A chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing by jim yardley. In brave dragons, which documents the dragons 200809 season, pulitzerwinning washington post critic jim yardley is persuasive in his overall narrative thrust.
Oh so brave dragon is a simple tale of a dragon who scares himself with his own roar. Brave dragons a chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing by jim yardley alfred a. 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 shanxi. Jim yardleys terrific book, telling the story of an obscure chinese. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. An adaptation of jim yardley s nonfiction story brave dragons, the book is officially described as follows. Pulitzer prize winner jim yardley has a courtside seat from which to observe chinas frantic capitalist expansion. The wonderfully original story of a struggling chinese basketball team and its quixotic, often comical attempt to right. Confira tambem os ebooks mais vendidos, lancamentos e livros digitais exclusivos. Wayne wang takes on basketball tale brave dragons deadline. Jim yardleys brave dragons takes readers courtside for. Jim yardley has worked as a journalist for the new york times for the past fourteen years. Jim yardleys brave dragons tells the story of an american basketball player and coach recruited to coach a chinese basketball team. Brave dragons is to chinese basketball what laura hillenbrands seabiscuit was to depressionera horse racing.
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Brave dragons ebook di jim yardley 9780307957702 rakuten kobo. Leggi brave dragons a chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing di jim yardley disponibile su rakuten kobo. Brave dragons begins as yet another fishoutofwater story. More important, yardleys time with the brave dragons afforded him an. Professional basketball and chinese history and culture are not topics commonly lumped together, but jim yardley takes on the challenge in brave dragons. The brave dragons are no less a study in contrasts, a combination of.
Pulitzer prize winner jim yardley has a courtside seat from which to observe chinas. In yardleys deft handling, the tale of the brave dragons and their american coach. 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. Former new york times beijing bureau chief jim yardley tells the story of the resulting culture clash with sensitivity and a keen comic sensibility. A chinese basketball team, an american coach and two cultures clashing and bureau chief in delhi. Jim yardleys brave dragons takes readers courtside for a tipoff between cultures updated jan 12, 2019. In the prologue, jim yardley reaches back in time to give his readers the image of henry kissinger in an. Brave dragons by the american journalist jim yardley, really is about the shanxi brave dragons based in taiyuan, their unpredictable owner boss wang xingjiang, their 200809 season in the chinese. In his book, brave dragons, yardley chronicles a season of the professional basketball team in chinas shanxi province that took on an american head coach, bob weiss, in an attempt to. Feb 26, 2012 brave dragons begins as yet another fishoutofwater story.
A chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures. A chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing jim yardley. Read brave dragons a chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing by jim yardley available from rakuten kobo. Appalled by the many wasteful, exhausting drills players are required to complete to no evident end, weiss tried to introduce oncourt decisionmaking, individuality, and offensive. Yardley was originally intrigued by the shanxi club because it had just hired bob weiss, a veteran american coach recovering. Lynch, april 18, 2012 jim yardleys new book, brave dragons. Written by the new york times pulitzer prize winner jim yardley, it follows the yearlong odyssey of exnba. Yardley was originally intrigued by the shanxi club because it had just hired bob weiss, a veteran american coach recovering from. A chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing, i present my own experiences with chinese basketball.
Author jim yardley sees basketball as a metaphor for chinas relationship with the rest of the world. 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. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading brave dragons. Brave dragons is thorough micro and macrohistory, capable of sucking in both the basketballobsessed and the nonathletically inclined.
Dennis talks to jim yardley, international reporter for the new york times. A chinese basketball team, an american coach and two cultures clashing and bureau chief in delhi, india for the new york times. A chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing kindle edition by yardley, jim. Mar 08, 2012 dennis talks to jim yardley, international reporter for the new york times. A new book follows an american basketball veteran as he coaches a struggling chinese pro basketball team. 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. Mar 11, 2012 but brave dragons is not just a humorous look at culture clash. Once again inspired by jim yardleys wonderful new book brave dragons. Jim yardley spent a season on the bench with the shanxi brave dragons, one of the worst clubs in chinese pro basketball. 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. 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. Jim yardley s brave dragons tells the story of an american basketball player and coach recruited to coach a chinese basketball team.
In brave dragons hoops are a metaphor for culture clash. 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. A chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing ebook. But brave dragons is not just a humorous look at culture clash. 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. Jim yardley when the shanxi brave dragons, one of chinas worst professional basketball. A chinese basketball team, an american coach, and two cultures clashing, is more than just a good story about basketball in china.
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