Inside The Red Mansion: On The Trail Of China's Most Wanted Man
SKU: DADAX0618714987
ISBN : 046442714983
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Features of Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man
Inside the Red Mansion is a suspenseful, slyly entertaining journey into the heart of the new China. Due to a mix-up on a routine reporting assignment, Oliver August stumbles onto the hunt for Chinas most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run from corruption charges. Sensing something emblematic in this outsized tale of Lai's rise and fall, August sets out to find the self-made billionaire, hoping that if he can understand how Lai reinvented himself, he will also better grasp the tectonic forces transforming modern China.Lai embodies the story of Chinas recent success as well as its Achilles heel: its command economy, blended with the free market, is riddled with corruption. Moving ever closer to the elusive tycoon, August introduces us to a people in the midst of head-spinning self-transformation. We meet a nightclub hostess and her gaggle of Miss Temporaries; powerful businessmen on a debt-settling round of nocturnal golf; and a foie gras king who markets his goose liver by the ton and prefers it deep fried. This is a China seething with desire, engaged in a slapstick fight with its past, and hell-bent on the future.Inside the Red Mansion is the first book to capture the giddy vibe of contemporary China and its darker vulnerabilities.
Specification of Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man
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Author | August, Oliver |
Binding | hardcover |
Language | english |
Edition | First Edition |
ISBN-10 | 0618714987 |
ISBN-13 | 9780618714988 |
Publication Year | 2007-07-18T00:00:01Z |
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