Mr China

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• Mr China

  MR CHINA is (according to The Economist, anyway) the slightly disguised story of Asimco, founded by Jack Perkowski, a Wall Street banker, who raised more than US$400 million for investment in China in the early 1990s. Asimco, of which Clissold was Pr ... (read full critics)

  asianreviewofbooks published on Wed, 1 Sep 2010

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  Brilliant book. Must read. A practical guide about investment banking/management in China. Although a lot of the scenarios in the book were outdated, but many lessons are still valid today. I have just read some recent news from FT that one could almost say that it was lifted from a chapter of ... (continue)

  Brilliant book. Must read. A practical guide about investment banking/management in China. Although a lot of the scenarios in the book were outdated, but many lessons are still valid today. I have just read some recent news from FT that one could almost say that it was lifted from a chapter of this book. Life, can indeed be stranger than fiction.

  Some people nowsdays still have the concept which goes, "1.3bn ppl in China, if every one of them spend RMB1 on our product, we are never going to be poor!" This is the kind of concept that put good western business into freefall. If you are thinking of going into China, this is an amusing read and would serve as a bit of a idiots' guide to the culture and business practice in China.

  Trust me, this was written nearly 10 years ago, and I still see problems that occured in the book happen in my daily work!!

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  文若 said on Aug 26, 2009 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  Fun read but not a good reflection of modern China

  The stories are fun and will have minor parallels in today's business in China. However, since the accounts are of events from a few years ago, the current situation is likely more complex. It is best to take these stories as cautionary tales but not let them deter from your plans to explore the Chi ... (continue)

  The stories are fun and will have minor parallels in today's business in China. However, since the accounts are of events from a few years ago, the current situation is likely more complex. It is best to take these stories as cautionary tales but not let them deter from your plans to explore the China market. China is far too big and moving too fast to make attempt to capture its essence an impossible task.

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  Ray Tseng said on Sep 2, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 306 Pages
• ISBN-10: 1740513606
• ISBN-13: 9781740513609
• Publisher: Random House Australia
• Pub date: Oct 01, 2004
• Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover and eBook
• In other languages: other languages Libros en Español

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