Financial Times ‘Out of the Gobi’ Book Review: Weijian Shan’s journey from Mao’s revolution to US high finance

By |2023-03-06T15:02:54+00:00February 25th, 2019|Categories: Articles, Out of the Gobi|

Gabriel Wildau reviews Weijian Shan’s ‘Out of the Gobi‘ in the Weekend edition of The Financial Times:

Out of the Gobi’ recalls a harrowing time in China’s recent history

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Weijian Shan on BBC World Service: ‘Turning the Gobi desert into farmland’

By |2019-02-14T17:00:15+00:00February 14th, 2019|Categories: Broadcast|Tags: , , , |

Weijian Shan joined BBC World Service in London to talk about his new memoir, Out of the Gobi.

Weijian Shan is one of China’s most prominent financiers, leading one of Asia’s largest private equity firms, but he had an extraordinary start to his life. 45 years ago he was a penniless youth driven to work in the country’s Northwestern desert by China’s Cultural Revolution. He has written a book about his life – Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America. He started the forced labour just after elementary school.
(Image: Cultural Revolution propaganda poster, Credit: Getty Images)

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Weijian Shan on BBC Radio 4 “Today”

By |2019-02-13T15:22:47+00:00February 13th, 2019|Categories: Broadcast|Tags: , , , , |

Weijian Shan discusses his new memoir, Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America, on BBC Radio 4’s flagship news and current affairs program, ‘Today.’  (The interview begins 2:47:07).

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Project Syndicate ‘Out of the Gobi’ Review: Resilience and Rebellion in Contemporary China

By |2023-03-06T12:47:32+00:00February 8th, 2019|Categories: Articles, Out of the Gobi|Tags: , , , , , , |

Minxin Pei reviews ‘Out of the Gobi‘ for Project Syndicate:

Anyone who reads Weijian Shan’s Out of Gobi will understand why the world’s largest one-party regime wants to keep historical truths buried and undisturbed. Now a successful Hong Kong-based investor, Shan spent his teenage years living as one of the “sent-down youth” in the Gobi Desert of Inner Mongolia during the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976). As such, he fell victim to one of that decade’s most heartbreaking tragedies.”

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The Takeaway : NPR

By |2019-02-13T16:16:32+00:00February 2nd, 2019|Categories: Broadcast, Main Featured Broadcast|Tags: , , , , , , , |

Amy Walter interviews Weijian Shan about his memoir, ‘Out of the Gobi.’

“Weijian Shan grew up during the Cultural Revolution and spent his childhood in a hard labor camp. Today, he is chairman and CEO of PAG, a private equity firm and author of, “Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America.” He reflects on the current tension between two schools of thought: One which seeks to move forward and abandon the system of party control over economic activity and the other that wants to hold onto the previous system of an active government presence in the economy.”

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