China Telecom

Author: Christopher Cullinan
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: A British investor who has lived in China for 17 years. He has lost $4.18 billion in China, witnessed a piece of history firsthand, and experienced both the greatest success and failure in China. He still remains in China, deeply understanding the other. Such a person is called a "China Hand." China is incredibly attractive to adventurers, and ambitious Western businesspeople cannot resist this temptation: fluttering red flags, a hundred million bicycles, the world's largest virgin land. After coming to China, they are even more convinced of a hidden hope: becoming a modern "China Hand," like Marco Polo, who knows this ancient country inside out, traveling through China with Kublai Khan's decree; or like early factory owners who lazily sit in Shanghai's opium dens, imagining that adding an inch to every Chinese person's clothing will make them rich. Kissinger might be somewhat like a "China Hand" because he once designed strategies with Zhou Enlai to counter the Soviet Union; Edgar Snow might also be, as he once climbed Tiananmen Square with Mao Zedong. As for those Western businesspeople who come to China out of jealousy for the "market of one billion people," who doesn't long to become a true "China Hand," the one and only foreigner who conquers China? In the end, how does it turn out? From The China Hand, you might find the answer.