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shopping thoroughfare. The street was packed with demonstrators, blowingwhistles, chanting for freedom, and carrying placards calling for a more openChina. No cars could pass, and the sidewalk was chockablock with spectators.The only way to move was to join the march. I slipped into the ow. Peoplestared at me like I didn’t belong. It must have been my clothes; Hong Kongpeople dressed di erently than mainlanders in those days, especially this ganglyteenager with an interest in style.In Shanghai, I stayed with an uncle who’d su ered during the CulturalRevolution. One evening as he and I watched the TV news, tears came to hiseyes. “It’s not going to end well for these youngsters,” he predicted. “They don’tunderstand,” he said. “The Communist Party rose to power by manipulatingprotests, ginning up mass movements, and then suppressing them ferociouslyonce they’d served their purposes.“A newborn calf doesn’t fear a tiger,” he said. “You cannot beat theCommunists this way.”I left Shanghai for Hong Kong on June 2, 1989. On the night of June 3, theCommunist Party declared war on China’s people across the country. In Beijing,army troops massacred hundreds of students and other demonstrators as theyexpelled the protesters from Tiananmen Square. Demonstrations in Shanghaiwere suppressed peacefully, earning Jiang Zemin, Shanghai’s Communist Partyboss, a promotion to the Party’s top position nationwide after the TiananmenSquare massacre.In Hong Kong, my father and I watched the crackdown in Beijing live ontelevision. Both of us broke into tears. For us, it was one of those ⁄ -typemoments. We remember vividly where we were. Given my dad’s early experiencewith the Communists, he always believed that the Party was evil to its core. He’dseen it turn on a dime against its own people. He’d expected the worst.As the events in China unfolded and the Chinese government issued a mostwantedlist of student leaders who were just a few years older than me, myparents emphasized that they’d started their lives anew in Hong Kong so I couldhave a better future. All of their sacri ces, they said, were made so that I mightavoid the fate of people on the Chinese mainland.
I was too young and too sheltered to understand what the chaos was allabout. The whole a air made me want to leave Hong Kong all the more, to getout from under my parents, to nd freedom and adventure, anywhere, even inWisconsin, USA.
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CHAPTER EIGHTWHITNEY AND I WERE DUM
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Nothing was on paper; it was all do
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COSCO’s stake in Ping An to dress
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invariably makes it retroactive, so
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For us, owning all this stu was a t
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CHAPTER NINEALTHOUGH WHITNEY AND I
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Back in Beijing we’d been trying
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Bureaucrats deployed thugs to battl
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monopolized power during the day, t
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on the big decisions Whitney and I
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which had bureaus at all levels of
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lling most of the positions in our
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level of culture is very high!” H
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We started the airport project with
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even if I’d wanted to. Right in t
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to join them. He called his doctor
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down. But I also needed to work har
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CHAPTER ELEVENWHITNEY AND I HADN’
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from word-for-word interpretation,
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Communist communitarian norms, and
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before, I procrastinated and though
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job was to shadow Zeng and take pic
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Approaching seventy, Auntie Zhang w
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given them a leg up by acknowledgin
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After the meal, Wang invited Whitne
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chance to change that, to leave beh
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appointed Party chief of Chongqing,
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With its many seminars and fellowsh
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were that despite their academic ac
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engineering, and math. During Mao
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Kaifeng think tank, we hired as our
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structure. Before, I’d made most
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Alibaba, or Pony Ma, the CEO of the
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The Li Peiying case started me thin
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Second, I argued that we should sta
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Jintao as the next general secretar
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that she and her husband would get
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Moutai believing that foreign store
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construction company mogul nickname
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included a smattering of French cou
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Zhang for a meal in Beijing, he’d
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After a few days, the bandages came
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CHAPTER FIFTEENI’VE WRITTEN BEFOR
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Huadu Hotel had taken up about 450,
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China is awash in hotels partly bec
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In hindsight, I believe that Whitne
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CHAPTER SIXTEENON OCTOBER 26, 2012,
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The Party reacted to the Wen story
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Bo Xilai was the son of Bo Yibo, an
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Xilai or Bo’s wife, because the i
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prognostication; it was her year of
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considering that in the meantime he
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Xi had Chen appointed vice-minister
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Xi’s government curtailed Hong Ko
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didn’t feel that the bulk of the
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donated several million dollars to
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many people gullibly believe the Pa
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If Ling Jihua and Sun Zhengcai hadn
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During one particularly acrimonious
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1949. Machiavelli would have been a
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The rm continued to make solid pro
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me back. It showed that on some lev
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Communist secret police will inject
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that the Party’s main purpose is
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Here I am in Hong Kong soon after m
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This is a classic Chinese-style por
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This picture of me—on the left—
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We took this picture in Inner Mongo
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This picture of Premier Wen Jiabao
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We are in Paris in June 2011 doing
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Chinese mega-artist Zeng Fanzhi sta
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This is the library at Tsinghua Uni
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This is the Genesis development pro
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Our friend Sun Zhengcai was destine
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Ariston painted this portrait of Wh
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than themselves. I still remember J
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR© JONTY DAVIESDESM
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NOTES
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Chapter SixParty elders had already
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Chapter Eightcontract to provide a
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Chapter TwelveA painter, Deng Lin h
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Chapter Sixteenthe Wen family was w
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Chapter EighteenHe was the grandson
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ve-star hotels in, 228Four Seasons
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intellectual property theft in, 62I
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give-no-quarter approach, 270-71job
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fear of the Chinese state, 100ferti
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average height for men in, 27behavi
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suspicious car crash death of, 260L
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Sandel, Michael, 182Shandong Provin
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capitalism in China and, 169-70cash
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Wen Ruchun (Lily Chang), 90-91, 97-
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