Into the swing
China is discovering golf
THE proliferation of golf courses in China is worrying the country's leaders. The first one was built only 20 years ago as China began to relax its curbs on bourgeois lifestyles. Now the country has about 200 of them. And according to Chinese press reports, as many as 1,000 others are planned. Or at least they were, until the government ordered this year that all new projects be put on hold.
This article appeared in the Asia section of the print edition under the headline “Into the swing”
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