Chasing China: How I Went to China in Search of a Fortune and Found a Life (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781602396579)

An astonishing, cautionary tale of how Westerner Mark Kitto built a successful media empire in China, creating and running 3 magazines, only to have the state take his business, and his livelihood, away.

"I had fought off attacks from jealous rivals and been investigated by every bureau with the slightest connection to publishing, and by many who did not: nine in total. I had paid over 1 million Yuan in fines, and who knows how much more in administration fees to government 'agencies.' I had been accused of being a pimp, a China 'splittist, ' a Falun Gong supporter, a pornographer and a spy. My staff had been extradited, my office computers confiscated, and my magazines impounded at the printers. I had got them all back. I had been through eight government publishing partners before China Intercontinental Press, and half a dozen advertising agencies." --Mark Kitto on his experience as a business owner in China

Author: Mark Kitto
ISBN-10: 1602396574
ISBN-13: 9781602396579
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Language: English
Published: 04/22/2009
Pages: 368
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.10w x 1.40d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/02/2009 pg. 41
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2009
Booklist 04/15/2009 pg. 8