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050 00 $aDS712$b.A88 2007
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100 1 $aAugust, Oliver,$d1971-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb99078702
245 10 $aInside the red mansion :$bon the trail of China's most wanted man /$cOliver August.
246 30 $aOn the trail of China's most wanted man
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin Company,$c2007.
300 $a268 pages :$bmap ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
520 1 $a"Inside the Red Mansion is a 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 China's most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run from corruption charges. Sensing something emblematic in the 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 China's 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."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aChina$xDescription and travel.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024006
600 10 $aLai, Changxing,$d1958-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006062561
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0619/2006026930.html
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852 00 $beal$hDS712$i.A88 2007