Mr. China

Liebe Leserschaft. Es ist nicht so, dass ich euch vernachlässigen will. Aber ich stecke zurzeit in der Abschlussphase meines Berichts und muss diesen bis Sonntag abliefern.

Um die Zeit überbrücken zu können, empfehle ich euch folgendes Buch, welches der subjektiven Realität eines Westlers in China sehr nahe kommt: Mr. China von Tim Clissold.

Andrew, danke dir für diese wirklich spannende und unterhaltsame Lektüre :-)

"In the early 1990s, British businessman Clissold--with a passing knowledge of China and of Mandarin--found himself the point man between a group of Wall Street bankers with hundreds of millions to invest and a budding entrepreneur class in China strapped for cash and foreign expertise. This seemingly perfect marriage would become, as one investor put it, "the Vietnam War of American business." By decade's end, hundreds of joint ventures would fail and billions of dollars would be lost. If Clissold was well placed to help create many of these ill-fated partnerships, he's even better positioned to explain, through his own horrific experiences, what went wrong: a labyrinthine legal and political system that Westerners (even with Chinese help) could never decipher, a rickety and hidebound system of factory management in China, an almost-willful lack of respect by Wall Street for Chinese sensibilities, and often-flagrant abuse by Chinese managers of the Western largesse made available to them. A compelling account, related with sly humor and hard-earned wisdom."