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INSIDE THE RED MANSION: On
the Trail of China’s Most Wanted Man Tainted pet food. Toxic cough syrup. Harmful toothpaste. Recently China has grabbed headlines with stories of corruption and confusion. In INSIDE THE RED MANSION, journalist Oliver August (the youngest ever Beijing Bureau Chief for the Times of London) takes you on a harrowing journey through a changing China, exposing the underbelly: the corrupt business, the hidden handshakes and exchanged envelopes. August, mistakenly caught and detained by government authorities, becomes obsessed with the intended target of his captors, China's most notorious criminal: Lai Changxing, an illiterate, tycoon-billionaire-smuggler, who ran a luxurious bordello (the Red Mansion) to bribe government officials. Lai just barely escaped the 600-man task force sent to hunt him down and remains China’s most wanted man. In his search for Lai, August reveals the mad scramble by Chinese entrepreneurs for wealth, and how big risks can lead to big riches, but also big trouble--a fitting metaphor for the “new China” emerging before our eyes.
Author tour: New York City, Washington DC, Baltimore, San Francisco, Seattle
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