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Love, Money & Friendships

Synopsis:

In 1981, David Wong retired after 20 years as an administrative officer in the Hong Kong Government to chance his arm in the city’s cut-throat free market, as the managing director of a large multinational trading corporation. He soon discovered more legal and ethical boobytraps in business than he had bargained for.

Nonetheless, he sidestepped them and in 1982, during the Sino-British negotiations to end British rule, he quickly sensed a unwarranted panic over the value of the Hong Kong dollar. He acted accordingly and made himself millions in weeks.

Wong then visited different parts of China with friends. In the process he fell in love with a young and beautiful member of the Communist Youth League. When he tried to marry her, however, the mainland bureaucracy threw a host of obstacles in his path. After all, he was perceived as a capitalist from Hong Kong. But Wong’s friends used their collective guanxi with members of the Politburo to gain him permission to marry the girl. The title of this volume is thus Love, Money & Friendships.

Interlaced with Wong’s narrative are fascinating insights into aspects of China’s long and colourful history and culture.

Love, Money & Friendships, can be purchased directly from Blacksmith Books

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Love, Money & Friendships – Index of Chapters (CLICK TO DOWNLOAD)

  1. Introduction
  2. Terms of Engagement
  3. Transitions
  4. Exits A Bureaucrat
  5. Enters A Trader
  6. Fireworks
  7. China, My China
  8. Karma at the Great Wall
  9. Suze the Matchmaker
  10. The Runes of History
  11. Making Millions
  12. Unforeseen Consequences
  13. Getting Married
  14. Awkward Passages
  15. Mistress of Mao
  16. Taking Up the Pen
  17. Old Friends Reunited
  18. Gathering Storms
  19. Breaking-Up
  20. Odds and Half-Ends

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