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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Guerrilla WarFare
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Author: Dr.Ernesto Che Guevara
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication Date: June 1st 1985
ISBN: 0803270100(ISBN13:9780803270107)
No of Pages: 440 pages
Rating: 2/5
Could be described as a handbook to guerrilla warfare. Gives A to Z lessons on how to begin,organize and wage a guerrilla warfare. I must admit that the book is a compilation of the so called Guerrilla tactics which are completely irrelevant and useless in the present scenario. One can also find heavy doses of Marxism protruding out even in lines of technical description. This book can't be perfect, for if it were how did che got executed by a drunken Bolivian army man ;) (he could have implemented the techniques and won over Bolivia)
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