Walking the Tycoons Rope: How Ambition Drove a Poor Boy from Ningbo to Compete with the Richest Men of Hong Kong & Singapore - Tapa blanda

Wang, Robert

 
9789881613813: Walking the Tycoons Rope: How Ambition Drove a Poor Boy from Ningbo to Compete with the Richest Men of Hong Kong & Singapore
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ISBN 10: 9881613817 ISBN 13: 9789881613813
Editorial: Blacksmith Books, 2012

Sinopsis

Robert Wang fled the Chinese civil war at the age of five and came to Hong Kong with nothing. The colony was a harsh place in the 1950s and 1960s. But he was determined to rise to the top -- and through hard work and resolve, he got there. The law firm he founded grew into the city''s fifth largest. With the clock ticking towards the hand-over of Hong Kong to China, and no one knowing what the end of British rule would bring, Robert hatched an audacious scheme to safeguard the fortunes of Hong Kong''s richest tycoons. He would convince Singapore to take them in. At last, he was walking with kings: dealing one-on-one with the most powerful businessmen and politicians of Hong Kong and South-east Asia. It was an exhilarating experience -- but climbing so high has its dangers. After unwittingly offending the wrong power brokers, he was cast aside and left to defend himself against the damnation of corporate rumours. Robert''s rags-to-riches story offers a rare look inside the unimaginably wealthy world of Hong Kong''s property tycoons -- men such as Li Ka-shing, Cheng Yu-tung and Lee Shau-kee -- but also, as he tells the tale of four generations of his family, we learn that it is the traditional values of tolerance, filial piety and loyalty which endure.

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Robert Wang was born in Ningbo. Shortly after his birth his parents moved to Shanghai by crossing the Hangzhou Bay at the mouth of the Yangtze River and from there eventually emigrated to Hong Kong. He is a solicitor by training and, like many of his clansmen from Ningbo, an entrepreneur at heart. He founded the firm of Robert W.H. Wang & Co., Solicitors & Notaries, in the late 1970s and grew it to be one of Hong Kong's largest, with offices also in Singapore and London. He is an Honorary Fellow of Queen Mary of London University, his alma mater.

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Editorial
Blacksmith Books
Año de publicación
2012
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
9881613817
ISBN 13 
9789881613813
Encuadernación
Tapa blanda
Número de páginas
384
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