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Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man

Inside the Red Mansion: On the Trail of China's Most Wanted Man

August, Oliver

Paperback

Chinese HistoryGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0547053509
ISBN13: 9780547053509
Publisher: Mariner Books
Published: Jun 12 2008
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.73
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.72
Language: English

The notorious gangster Lai Changxing started out as an illiterate farmer, but in the tumult of China's burgeoning economy, he seized the opportunity to remake himself as a bandit king. A newly minted billionaire of outsized personality and even greater appetites, he was a living legend who eventually ran afoul of authorities. The journalist Oliver August set out to find the fugitive Lai. On his quest he encountered a highly entertaining series of criminals and oddball entrepreneurs--and acquired unique insight into the paradoxes of modern China. Part crime caper, part travelogue, part trenchant cultural analysis, August's page-turning account captures China's giddy vibe and its darker vulnerabilities.

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