Inside the red mansion: on the trail of China's most wanted man
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Published:
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007., Boston : Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
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Book
Physical Desc:
268 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Status:
Longmont Adult Nonfiction
951.05 AUG
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Longmont Adult Nonfiction
951.05 AUG
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Oct 29, 2018
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Due to a mix-up, Oliver August stumbles onto the hunt for China's most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run from corruption charges. Sensing something emblematic in this outsized tale of rise and fall, August sets out to find the self-made billionaire, in the hope that if he can understand how Lai reinvented himself, he will also better understand the tectonic forces transforming modern China. Lai embodies the story of China's recent success as well as its Achilles' heel: the blending of its command economy 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.
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English
ISBN:
9780618714988, 0618714987
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APA Citation (style guide)
August, O. (2007). Inside the red mansion: on the trail of China's most wanted man. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)August, Oliver, 1971-. 2007. Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)August, Oliver, 1971-, Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
MLA Citation (style guide)August, Oliver. Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company, 2007.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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