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Book 2002

China dawn

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Publisher
HarperBusiness
Language
English
Published
2002
  • Current Events
  • Business
  • Capitalists and financiers
  • Economic conditions
  • Businessmen
  • Nonfiction
  • Technological innovations
  • Businesspeople, biography

On a Sunday morning in early 2000, while loudspeakers on a passing advertising van pump out tinny jingles and a froggy computerized voice croaks, "Try Peace Cigarettes, fresh and fashionable," Edward Tian looks out on the arcing concrete-and-metal Lu Gouqiao Bridge on the outskirts of Beijing.