Mr. China by Tim Clissold
Armed with hundreds of millions of dollars and a strong sense that he and his partners were-like missionaries of capitalism-descending into the industrial past to bring the Chinese into the modern world, one Western businessman got the education of a lifetime.
"In the 1980s, Clissold, a graduate of England's Cambridge University, left his job in a major accounting firm to go to Beijing and learn Mandarin. He was thus on the front line when foreign investors came to China looking for business partners and on the firing line when there was a clash of expectations and unforeseen results. Chinese businessmen and officials did not defer to the foreigners but instead showed them why China led the world in technology, industry, and business-that is, before the last few unfortunate centuries." -Library JournalTim Clissold has spent more than two decades in China, working and traveling throughout the country. He acquired a interest with China after graduating from Cambridge University with degrees in physics and theoretical physics and working in London, Australia, and Hong Kong. He studied Mandarin in Beijing for two years before cofounding a private equity firm that invested over $400 million there. He went on to work for Goldman Sachs, where he recovered distressed assets, and more recently, he founded a company that invests in initiatives that cut greenhouse gas emissions in China through the UN's Clean Development Mechanism. His first book was set in China. It has been translated into twelve languages and was named Book of the Year by the Economist magazine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780060761400 |
| ISBN 10 | 0060761407 |
| Title | Mr. China |
| Author | Tim Clissold |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2006-02-28 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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