Chasing China: How I Went To China in Search Of a Fortune and Found a Life

Author: Mark Kitto

Publisher: Skyshore Publishig

Publication Date: 2009 April 22   

  

No of Pages: 368

ISBN: 1602396574

Price: 1321 INR

Rating: 2/4

This book would  help the reader in several platforms; for it could be (and it is) a guidebook on starting, running and surviving in business in China dodging the official onslaught. Or it could be a tour guide to china or more precisely Moganshan. Simultaneously it would strike you as a source of inspiration, which gives you a “well-detailed” tale of a man who fought the Chinese official dragon and its several sister entities in course of doing his business in china.

The book could be divided into o few segments based on what the pages bestow(what I think they do J) in the first pace-50 , tell the details of his early days in china, starting, running business, small skirmishes with the authority, the way he dealt with them etc.. Then with the intro of Moganshan(even if the first chapter describes his visit to Moganshan with a “head-turningly” beautiful shanghai girl, they shift to the place only after several chaps)

Mark Kitto teaches us how difficult it is to “Make things happen” in china, with all the official complication ruining everything. The reader will be astounded by Mark’s persistence and will to remain in the Chinese mainland after having stripped off his hard earned business by the Chinese Communist party. The reader is sure to bestow certain respect for the author. In several accounts of his “troubles” with the unyielding Chinese system, Mark dazzles the reader with his exceptionally positive attitude that of never backing down. Nevertheless it is indispensable to state feature of the book that strike me as a negative and unnecessary – ‘excessive details’. I think the book would have been a lot better if it was briefed to half of what it is now, with some alterations of course.

1) By adding more details of “staring a honest business in china by dealing effectively with the authority” that way it will be a perfect guidebook to those desiring to open a business in china. A GUIDE FOR FOREIGNERS TO START BUISENESS IN CHINA it would have been.

2) With a little more detail about how he made all the money. I mean the book says how he spends it only. A little more light to his past could have helped.

3) Deduce unnecessary details of nature/Moganshan/Purchase/travel/room shift…….etc

I could find some serious grammatical errors too, the editing should have been more perfect. 

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About the author : MARK KITTO

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Kitto