Managing the Dragon provides very good insights into what was needed in the 90s to bring a successful fund into China to build a world-class Chinese automotive components company. The author, Jack Perkowski, started out as a successful Wall Street investment banker. After twenty years, he took an interest in China and moved his family, [...]
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Was the Inspiration for James Bond a Lost Laowai?
Well maybe he wasn’t the only inspiration for British uberspy James Bond, but Peter Fleming certainly was one crazy laowai. Peter Fleming was the older brother of Bond’s creator, Ian Fleming and one of the best known travel writers of 1930s England. A very rich adventure writer, the Flemings came from an important banking family [...]
A Man at the Center of Change in 19th Century China
For all those Chinese parents looking to get their kids into Harvard or Yale, they should take their noses out of those how-to-books writen by parents of successful students and instead read the biography of one of their countrymen. Yung Wing’s My Life in China and America (China Economic Review Publishing) is the biography of [...]
Book Review: China – People Place Culture History
When I got an e-mail a few months back from book publisher DK to see if I was interested in reviewing their new book, “China: People Place Culture History“, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. I had, wrongly, assumed that the book would simply be a token collection of pages about [...]
