Inside the red mansion : on the trail of China's most wanted man / Oliver August.
Inside the red mansion : on the trail of China's most wanted man / Oliver August.
Inside the red mansion : on the trail of China's most wanted man / Oliver August.
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Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, c2007.
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N951.05/153
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English
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[vii], 268 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Contents
Writers -- Petits bourgeois -- The landlord -- Boatmen -- Dancing girls -- Three hands -- Villagers -- Believers -- The goose liver king -- Bandits -- The madam -- Fugitives -- Night traders -- Rocket cadres -- The vice-minister -- Lawyers -- The gambler -- The gambler II -- The officer.
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Boston, Mass. : Houghton Mifflin, c2007.
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Massachusetts
Date Published
c2007.
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"Inside the Red Mansion is a journey into the heart of the new China. Due to a mix-up on a routine reporting assignment. Oliver August stumbles onto the hunt for China's most wanted man, Lai Changxing, an illiterate tycoon on the run from corruption charges. Sensing something emblematic in the outsized tale of Lai's rise and fall, August sets out t...
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Inside the red mansion : on the trail of China's most wanted man / Oliver August.
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On the trail of China's most wanted man.
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c2007.
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N951.05/153
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74VKR0NQA2VA
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9780618714988 (hbk.)
0618714987 (hbk.)
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951.05
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991023269089702626
