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style=\"text-align:left;word-break:break-all;font-size:14px;line-height:1.6em;\"\u003e\n\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eBook Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003e* [Economist] Book of the Year 2021\u003cbr\u003e * [Financial Times] Best Books of 2021\u003cbr\u003e * Highly recommended by [The New York Times], [Kirkus Reviews], and [The Washington Post]\u003cbr\u003e * A vivid true story of a billionaire businessman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “What drives China’s politics and business?”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Driven by corruption, conflict of interest, and greed\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eExposing the ugly truth about the Chinese power elite and the red aristocracy!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Powerful and shocking.\u003cbr\u003e It's a book you can't put down from the moment you open the first page until you've read the last line.\u003cbr\u003e What is surprising is that everything in this book is a vivid testimony from an insider and historical fact.\u003cbr\u003e The author is a person who has amassed incredible wealth during China's economic renaissance, which saw it rise from one of the world's poorest countries to one of the G2.\u003cbr\u003e The book begins with the sudden disappearance of his ex-wife, Whitney Dan, who had worked with the author on his rise to the pinnacle of wealth and connections with key figures in the Chinese Communist Party.\u003cbr\u003e Why and where did she disappear?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e This book exposes the ugly truth behind the disappearances that frequently occur in China, where the Communist Party monopolizes power, namely the Party and the red aristocracy (descendants of the families of the leaders of the communist elite group that seized power in China in 1949). \u003cbr\u003eThe author and his ex-wife were now faced with a harsh reality in their glamorous world of luxury and hedonism, where they chartered private jets touring Europe and indulged in ruthless luxury shopping sprees.\u003cbr\u003e The author looks back on the dreamlike past and soberly assesses the past, present, and future of the Chinese Communist Party.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An inside look into the world's most secretive and absolute power.\u003cbr\u003e This is perhaps the first book to expose the extremes of the Chinese Communist Party's power struggles and corruption, something that Chinese President Xi Jinping would most like to suppress by any means necessary. CNN commented, \"China wants you to avoid reading this book.\"\u003cbr\u003e In fact, just as the author was about to publish his book, Red Roulette, he received a sudden phone call from his wife, Whitney Dan, whose whereabouts had been unknown for four years. \u003cbr\u003eHe was briefly released and warned, \"If you don't give up publishing this book, your life could be in danger.\"\u003cbr\u003e However, the author took as his motto the words of the Northern Song Dynasty politician Fan Zhongyan, “I would rather die shouting than live with my mouth shut,” and wrote the book with courage, and finally the whole world learned about the corrupt nature of the Chinese Communist Party.\u003cbr\u003e This is a must-read for anyone curious about the mechanisms that drive the Chinese Communist Party and its vast funds, and the direction China will take in the future.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cul\u003e\u003cli\u003e You can preview some of the book's contents.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cspan\u003ePreview\u003c\/span\u003e\n\n\u003c\/li\u003e\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eindex\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e She disappeared while on the road to success.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 My Love, My Country\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: Childhood in Hong Kong\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: After studying in the US, back to Hong Kong\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: China Wakes Up\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: Meeting Whitney\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: The Amazing Connection: Wen Jiabao's Wife \u003cbr\u003eChapter 7 Like a fish cleaning a crocodile's teeth\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: The Beginning of 'Gwansi'\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Capital International Airport Project\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Ping An Stock Hits Big\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 11: Joining the Super Rich\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 12: The New Guanxi, Sun Zhengcai and Wang Qishan\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 13: Meeting Xi Jinping\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 14: A European Tour and a Shopping Frenzy\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 15: The Chaos Caused by the \"Palace in the Sky\" Project\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 16: The Power Struggle Between Xi Jinping and Bo Xilai\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 17: The Chinese Communist Party Reveals Its True Colors\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 18: Divorce, Leaving China Again\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Author's Note: China Goes Backwards\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eDetailed image\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/image.yes24.com\/momo\/TopCate3787\/MidCate002\/378614185.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Detailed Image 1\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003eInto the book\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Finally, we found ourselves in a position of power in almost every sector of China, and we were able to exchange views with the new, rising powers of the bureaucracy.\u003cbr\u003e We have been working to bring about social and political change to make China a better place.\u003cbr\u003e I thought that if I did it well, I could do it very well. \u003cbr\u003eEven a rough calculation shows that our total net worth amounts to tens of billions of dollars (trillions of won).\u003cbr\u003e But now the Whitney band is gone.\u003cbr\u003e When I contacted Whitney's home manager from my home in England, she said she had not returned from work that day in September 2017 and had not appeared since.\u003cbr\u003e It was as if it had evaporated.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.11\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whitney made a reservation for the meeting at Yuting, a trendy Cantonese restaurant in the basement of the Grand Hyatt Beijing.\u003cbr\u003e The hotel was so extravagant that it seemed ostentatious, a symbolic representation of the ideals of 2000s China.\u003cbr\u003e Custom-made luxury chairs, glossy ebony tables, Italian marble floors, and gold ornaments all blended together beautifully.\u003cbr\u003e Among the guests were two Chinese men who had been present when Whitney first met her. \u003cbr\u003eOne of them was a so-called nouveau riche, dressed flashily, but somehow it didn't suit him.\u003cbr\u003e He didn't even bother to take off the tag on his jacket sleeve to show off the brand of his clothes.\u003cbr\u003e Another person, who appeared to be a Chinese official, avoided the camera, as if to avoid unwanted attention and jealousy.\u003cbr\u003e Whitney and I arrived early to decide on the menu and preview the room she had reserved.\u003cbr\u003e Whitney said that the person she was meeting today was an important adult whom she respected very much, and that she would reveal his identity after they finished eating.\u003cbr\u003e I had no idea who she invited.\u003cbr\u003e I could only guess that this meeting would have an impact on our future.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.110~111\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Wei had no objection to selling part of COSCO's stake to Whitney and, by extension, to Prime Minister Wen's family. \u003cbr\u003eAlthough Wei did not make any special demands, he may have thought that, as an executive leading a state-run enterprise, currying favor with the Prime Minister's family might serve his own purposes later.\u003cbr\u003e With Prime Minister Yuan's influence, we began internal preparations to purchase a portion of COSCO's shares.\u003cbr\u003e Wei wanted to sell 3 percent of Ping An's shares.\u003cbr\u003e We thought we would buy 1 percent and Aunt Jang would be interested in the remaining 2 percent.\u003cbr\u003e Since this was our first joint project with Aunt Jang and it was going to be a one-time investment, we didn't apply the 70\/30 rule.\u003cbr\u003e Moreover, we did not even have enough capital to acquire a 1 percent stake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e It wasn't a sweet deal.\u003cbr\u003e They offered to sell the stock at 10 percent above the net asset value calculated by the accounting firm.\u003cbr\u003e At the time, similarly priced stocks were being negotiated, but none of them came to fruition. \u003cbr\u003eGoldman Sachs, the American investment bank that bought a 10 percent stake in Ping An for $35 million in 1993, also tried to sell its stake around the same time but failed to find a buyer.\u003cbr\u003e So Goldman sold Ping An's shares for a pittance to a then-unknown company called Alibaba (which would later grow into the world's largest e-commerce company). Had Goldman held onto these shares, he could have made hundreds of billions of dollars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.148~149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In a system where the laws that define what is legal and what is prohibited are often gray (meaning the Communist Party applies them as it sees fit), fostering a sense of belonging was crucial.\u003cbr\u003e Because every time we tried to do something new, we had to wrestle with these gray laws. \u003cbr\u003eIn the West, laws are generally clear and courts are independent, so it's easy to see where the line between legal and illegal is.\u003cbr\u003e But in China, the laws themselves are deliberately vague, constantly changing, and sometimes applied retroactively at will.\u003cbr\u003e Moreover, the courts were merely instruments of party control.\u003cbr\u003e This is why we need to build a sense of belonging.\u003cbr\u003e So, if you want to convince the officials that your business is legal and not in violation of the law, you must first convince them to trust you.\u003cbr\u003e Only then can you make it happen and become successful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.197\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Communist Party Secretary of Tsinghua University was a man named Chen Xi, a Tsinghua University graduate who studied at Stanford University in the United States for two years in the early 1990s. \u003cbr\u003eAll universities in China are run by the Chinese Communist Party and have a party secretary. The party secretary of a university, as well as of a primary, middle, and high school, has much more power than the president, dean, or principal.\u003cbr\u003e Just as the General Secretary of the Communist Party ranks above the Prime Minister in the political system, so too does the Party Secretary rank highest in every school, state-owned enterprise, and research institute in China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Cheon-shi worked as a professor at Tsinghua University for 20 years.\u003cbr\u003e Appointed Secretary of Tsinghua University in 2002, he enjoyed strong support within the Communist Party.\u003cbr\u003e He was close with Xi Jinping, who was the party's rising star at the time.\u003cbr\u003e In fact, in the late 1970s, when Chen Xi and Xi Jinping attended Tsinghua University, they were dorm roommates.\u003cbr\u003e When Xi Jinping was appointed governor of Fujian Province in 1999, he offered Chen Xi the position of vice governor, but Chen Xi declined. \u003cbr\u003eWhile always loyal to Xi Jinping, Chen Shi walked his own path.\u003cbr\u003e He was already established as a big shot in Beijing, so why would he turn down a good position and go to a distant province to become a vice-governor?\u003cbr\u003e --- p.240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e While Zhao Lin's smuggling activities continued, his wife (David's mother-in-law), Lin Yufang, worked as the president of the largest state-owned import-export company in Fujian Province.\u003cbr\u003e I heard that when this incident broke out in 1999, Lin Yufang, who was once a leading figure in various party events, suffered from a nervous breakdown and aphasia out of fear that she and her husband would be caught up in the investigation, and was hospitalized in Beijing for several years.\u003cbr\u003e However, neither man was indicted.\u003cbr\u003e This once again clearly shows that in China, it is not who did what, but how powerful the connections are that matter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e --- p.267\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The first problem with traveling around Europe was how to get around. \u003cbr\u003eBy this time, Whitney was enjoying traveling by private jet, and we had already ordered a $43 million Gulfstream G500 airplane from the American aircraft manufacturer Gulfstream Aerospace.\u003cbr\u003e So we suggested that we take a private jet.\u003cbr\u003e David agreed, saying that for convenience there should be three jets.\u003cbr\u003e Finally, in June 2011, the four of us headed to Paris.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The plan was to split the trip into three jets, but at the last minute the men chartered two more jets, saying they wanted to play card games during the trip.\u003cbr\u003e Two jets followed us, empty.\u003cbr\u003e Here too, the good looks played an important role.\u003cbr\u003e “If you charter one more jet, we have to charter one more.\u003cbr\u003e “Because something might come up at the company and someone might have to come back first.”  \u003cbr\u003e--- p.274~275\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anyone with even a passing understanding of China would clearly see that the successive purges of Ling Jihua and Sun Zhengcai were not due to corruption.\u003cbr\u003e It was nothing more than a political maneuver.\u003cbr\u003e But Xi Jinping's anti-corruption campaign has avoided many of the red aristocrats he wants to deal with, especially those linked to Jiang Zemin, who leads the Shanghai faction.\u003cbr\u003e In January 2014, the party ordered the closure of Beijing's high-end nightclubs.\u003cbr\u003e But David's Maotai Club did not close.\u003cbr\u003e David's father-in-law, Jia Qinglin, was one of Jiang Zemin's closest associates.\u003cbr\u003e Because Jiang Zemin's support played a decisive role in Xi Jinping's rise.\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e -- p.335~336\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003ch5\u003e \u003cb\u003ePublisher's Review\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe power struggle at the highest level of the Chinese Communist Party\u003cbr\u003e A sharp exploration of the web of collusion between politics and business!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e About the most secretive country among the world's great powers\u003cbr\u003e An exciting and dangerous insider's testimony!\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe author of this book, Desmond Shum, rose to the heights of power and wealth in China with his now-divorced wife, Whitney Dan, only to lose it all in an instant.\u003cbr\u003e Whitney disappeared four years ago, but this book led to her dramatic reappearance.\u003cbr\u003e The author was born in Shanghai, China, spent his childhood there, and moved to Hong Kong with his parents.\u003cbr\u003e And as he experienced poverty in the unfamiliar environment of capitalism, which he had never encountered before, he resolved that his future would be different.\u003cbr\u003e He earned his degree in the United States through persistent effort and diligence, returned to his home country, worked at an investment firm, and then started his own business.\u003cbr\u003e And then, as if by fate, he meets his smart wife, Whitney Dan, who is as ambitious as he is.\u003cbr\u003e The couple share a dream of accomplishing something historic for China.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eWhitney demonstrates a remarkable ability to establish 'guanxi' with the core powers of the Chinese Communist Party, leading the author into the world of the red aristocracy.\u003cbr\u003e They developed a massive aviation logistics facility at Beijing Capital International Airport and conceived and completed Beijing's premier Bulgari Hotel and business center building.\u003cbr\u003e They also live lavishly, traveling on private jets, donating millions of dollars in scholarships, and purchasing expensive homes, cars, and art.\u003cbr\u003e Before she disappeared, their combined net worth was worth tens of billions of dollars (trillions of won).\u003cbr\u003e However, the couple clashed over issues such as who would take the lead in the business and how to direct it, and eventually ended up divorcing.\u003cbr\u003e Then, in 2017, while Desmond was in England with his son, he heard that Whitney had suddenly disappeared along with three of her colleagues.\u003cbr\u003e Their fates take completely different paths.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThis book features key Chinese leaders, including Wen Jiabao, Bo Xilai, Zhou Yongkang, Ling Jihua, Sun Zhengcai, and Xi Jinping.\u003cbr\u003e The author and Whitney's 'Gwansi' stories of the many key power figures unfold in an exciting way.\u003cbr\u003e This book, which reads like a novel but is based on a vivid true story, sharply shows how the Communist Party leadership is a huge interest group, how they divide up vested interests, how business relationships are formed in China, and how those in power accumulate wealth, through what the author saw, heard, and experienced while doing business with his wife.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e I knew that to open the door to success in China, I needed two keys.\u003cbr\u003e The first key was political savvy.\u003cbr\u003e In China, entrepreneurs could only succeed if they catered to the interests of the Communist Party. \u003cbr\u003eWhether you're a corner store owner or a tech genius in China's Silicon Valley, any business needs a sponsor within this system.\u003cbr\u003e The second key was the ability to execute when the opportunity came.\u003cbr\u003e You need to have both of these keys to succeed in China.\u003cbr\u003e That's the crux of the story that Whitney started and that I joined in with.\u003cbr\u003e -From the text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eThe Chinese Communist Party and its billionaires' secret \"guanxi\"\u003cbr\u003e In China, politics was a shortcut to wealth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The author and Whitney Dan cited 'guanxi' as the most difficult aspect when conducting various real estate development projects in China.\u003cbr\u003e Like all Chinese businesspeople, he had to pay extremely close attention to the central government's macroeconomic policies and political whims, and whenever he sought approval from each ministry, he had to demonstrate how his work aligned with the political and economic priorities of the Chinese Communist Party. \u003cbr\u003eAt this time, all approvals are possible only if you have a connection.\u003cbr\u003e They confess:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e We played a similar game with many other bureaucrats.\u003cbr\u003e All approvals were possible only with connections.\u003cbr\u003e Every connection meant investing in personal relationships, which meant a lot of effort and more Maotai.\u003cbr\u003e The most difficult part of running our business was building personal connections and establishing a rapport.\u003cbr\u003e -From the text\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Growing up in Hong Kong and studying in the United States, the author initially found it incomprehensible, but gradually learned that by establishing certain connections within the Chinese power structure, known as guanxi, one could circumvent all laws and regulations.\u003cbr\u003e A contract is not something that is concluded in a short period of time like a contract. \u003cbr\u003eIt's a human-to-human relationship, it takes a long time to build, and it takes genuine interest in the person.\u003cbr\u003e There were so many places that needed that kind of advice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Whitney tells in detail from the beginning how she met Zhang Peili, the wife of then-Vice Premier Wen Jiabao.\u003cbr\u003e Although she calls her 'Aunt Jang' and seems to have a relationship like that of a daughter, it can never be an equal relationship.\u003cbr\u003e The author and Whitney always tried to anticipate and fulfill Aunt Jang's desires that even she herself was unaware of.\u003cbr\u003e Eventually, they gained power in almost every area of ​​China, and found themselves in the company of the rising new bureaucrats, their wealth growing to an unfathomable degree.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eShouting the Chinese dream and becoming the new emperor\u003cbr\u003e Xi Jinping and China's future on the path to permanent rule\u003cbr\u003e And until he rose to the pinnacle of power\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe story behind the life-or-death struggle for power!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e China has entered a new phase of change that is completely different from the past.\u003cbr\u003e Xi Jinping has become a leader of a different status from former Presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao.\u003cbr\u003e He was ranked among the best, along with Mao Zedong, who founded the Chinese Communist Party, and Deng Xiaoping, who led the reform and opening up.\u003cbr\u003e Deng Xiaoping stipulated in the constitution a system of two five-year terms for the president to prevent the evils of the Mao Zedong era's cult of one man and long-term rule, but Xi Jinping has already implemented a constitutional amendment to remove the term limit and will begin his third term in November 2022.\u003cbr\u003e It would not be an exaggeration to say that China has emerged as a new emperor, a power on par with the United States, based on its rapidly growing economic power.\u003cbr\u003e And changes are beginning to be felt in the Chinese Communist Party's attitude toward entrepreneurs.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThe author of this book vividly describes how Xi Jinping eliminated his archrival Bo Xilai and rose to the pinnacle of power.\u003cbr\u003e This book provides a glimpse into the fierce internal power struggle and detailed circumstances unknown to outsiders.\u003cbr\u003e The scene where Whitney, who was an intimate 'guanxi' of Wen Jiabao's wife, describes a meal with Xi Jinping, who entered Beijing as a rookie politician, is impressive.\u003cbr\u003e And the story of how countless figures, including Bo Xilai and Zhou Yongkang, were purged during Xi Jinping's rise to power is so fascinating that it feels almost tense.\u003cbr\u003e And you can feel the distinct limitations of Chinese society.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e If Ling Jihua and Sun Zhengcai had not been purged, they would be members of the Politburo Standing Committee today.\u003cbr\u003e And the Chinese Communist Party would have maintained the structure of the collective leadership system organized by Deng Xiaoping in the 1980s. \u003cbr\u003eOf course, it wasn't a perfect system, but it prevented a return to the past when Chairman Mao Zedong wielded absolute power.\u003cbr\u003e 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