MANAGING THE DRAGON
How I’m Building A Billion-Dollar Business in China
By Jack Perkowski
Crown Business
Publication Date: March 2008
Contact: Laura Pillar, 212-446-5110 and Angela Hayes, 212-446-5104

In December of 1991, Jack Perkowski decided to abandon a successful twenty year career on Wall Street and move to Hong Kong to start a business. With his working-class Pittsburgh roots, his Yale and Harvard educations, and a concept, Perkowski set out to do what few westerners had done before him: build a company from the ground up in China. While ASIMCO Technologies, the automotive components company Perkowski founded in China in 1994, is now a key player in one of China’s largest industries, his foray into the Chinese marketplace was not any easy task.

MANAGING THE DRAGON is a fascinating and revealing narrative that highlights the rewards and pitfalls of doing business in China, but also contains important clues about how to be successful there. In telling his own story, Perkowski pulls aside the veil of mystery surrounding the country and demonstrates that China’s development is an opportunity for everyone, not just the Chinese, and that you don’t have to be a “China Expert” to succeed in China.