The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic
By
Mark L. Clifford
Contributor
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Item Type
Book
Serial
16511
Publisher
FP/Free Press
Description
264p.
ISBN / ISSN No.
9781668027691
Summay
Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine that killed tens of millions. In Hong Kong, he hustled and often slept overnight on a table in a clothing factory where he did odd jobs. At twenty-one, he was running a factory. By his mid-twenties, he owned one and was supplying sweaters and shirts to some of the biggest brands in the United States, from Polo to The Limited. His ideas about retail led him to create Giordano in 1981, and with it “fast fashion.” A restless entrepreneur, as Giordano prepared to go public, he was thinking about a dining concept that would disrupt Hong Kong’s fast-food industry. But then came the Tiananmen Square democracy protest and the massacre of 1989.
Keyword
China,biography,Hong Kong
DDC Classification No.
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Accession No.
16511
Current Location
Neeti Bagh
Shelving location
29
Status
Available
Category
China