admin, Author at Weijian Shan https://weijian-shan.com/author/admin/ Economist, businessman, author of Out of the Gobi Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:46:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://newbooksnetwork.com/money-games#new_tab Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:52:35 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11903 In an interview with Andrea Bernardi, Senior Lecturer in Employment and Organization Studies at Oxford Brookes University, Shan spoke about the context of the Asian financial crisis and the international rescue efforts, and how private equity can be a force for good ad create value. Money Games is a great book (more than what the [...]

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]]> In an interview with Andrea Bernardi, Senior Lecturer in Employment and Organization Studies at Oxford Brookes University, Shan spoke about the context of the Asian financial crisis and the international rescue efforts, and how private equity can be a force for good ad create value. Money Games is a great book (more than what the title could let you guess) that a diverse readership will find interesting: economists, political scientists, businessmen, policymakers.

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]]> https://asiasociety.org/hong-kong/events/money-games-inside-story-how-american-dealmakers-saved-koreas-most-iconic-bank#new_tab Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:22:39 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11901 In a conversation with Pete Sweeney, Asia Economics Editor at Thomson Reuters and Dr. Shan shares the captivating tale of how this high-stakes deal transformed into a massively profitable investment—and the legacy it left behind.

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]]> In a conversation with Pete Sweeney, Asia Economics Editor at Thomson Reuters and Dr. Shan shares the captivating tale of how this high-stakes deal transformed into a massively profitable investment—and the legacy it left behind.

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]]> How private equity whiz Weijian Shan went from penniless in the Gobi desert to orchestrating a takeover of one of China’s biggest banks https://fortune.com/2023/02/09/private-equity-weijian-shan-chinas-biggest-banks/#new_tab Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:03:13 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11881 Private equity is by its nature and up and down business, but few tales hold a candle to that of Weijian Shan, the Chinese-born dealmaker who clinched one of the most unlikely and successful deals of the early 21st century.

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]]> Private equity is by its nature and up and down business, but few tales hold a candle to that of Weijian Shan, the Chinese-born dealmaker who clinched one of the most unlikely and successful deals of the early 21st century.

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]]> Mao’s former barefoot doctor recalls sole foreign takeover of Chinese bank https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3208605/maos-former-barefoot-doctor-recalls-sole-foreign-takeover-chinese-bank#new_tab Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:02:02 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11884 Opportunity to buy control of a bank in China, home to the fast economic growth in the world, was certainly appealing, Shan Weijian says in new book Money Machine

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]]> Opportunity to buy control of a bank in China, home to the fast economic growth in the world, was certainly appealing, Shan Weijian says in new book Money Machine

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]]> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-review-shan-weijians-highly-revealing-new-china-book-steven-irvine/?trackingId=tIvXhsNhRSmuk3Fzh9bFfA%3D%3D#new_tab Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:01:00 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11891 My review of Shan Weijian’s highly-revealing new China book MONEY MACHINE. It's a gripping fly-on-the-wall account of Newbridge's famed and landmark acquisition of a controlling stake in Shenzhen Development Bank; the turnaround of that NPL-festooned financial institution; and its eventual sale by Newbridge to Ping An. A must read for anyone interested in China dealmaking, [...]

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]]> My review of Shan Weijian’s highly-revealing new China book MONEY MACHINE. It’s a gripping fly-on-the-wall account of Newbridge’s famed and landmark acquisition of a controlling stake in Shenzhen Development Bank; the turnaround of that NPL-festooned financial institution; and its eventual sale by Newbridge to Ping An. A must read for anyone interested in China dealmaking, local government machinations and the culture that powers Peter Ma’s Chinese financial conglomerate Ping An.

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]]> BBC World News: Weijian Shan discusses Out of the Gobi https://youtu.be/xPQXtXzet3g#new_tab Thu, 24 Jan 2019 01:48:14 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11321 Weijian Shan discusses his new memoir, “Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America,” on BBC’s World News America with Jane O’Brien.  

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]]> Weijian Shan discusses his new memoir, “Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America,” on BBC’s World News America with Jane O’Brien.

 

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]]> Rana Foroohar: ‘China’s Xi Jinping is no Davos man’ https://www.ft.com/content/84261604-1b26-11e9-9e64-d150b3105d21#new_tab Sun, 20 Jan 2019 17:15:11 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11299 “Trump takes extreme measures, but we would have come to this point naturally,” says Chinese private equity investor Weijian Shan, whose new book, Out of the Gobi, is a memoir of growing up in Mao’s China but also a study in why markets have worked better than state control for the country.

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]]> “Trump takes extreme measures, but we would have come to this point naturally,” says Chinese private equity investor Weijian Shan, whose new book, Out of the Gobi, is a memoir of growing up in Mao’s China but also a study in why markets have worked better than state control for the country.

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]]> On trade, China’s private-equity king is ‘hopeful for the best, prepared for the worst’ https://www.marketwatch.com/story/on-trade-chinas-private-equity-king-is-hopeful-for-the-best-prepared-for-the-worst-2019-01-19#new_tab Sat, 19 Jan 2019 23:30:28 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11289 Weijian Shan says that reducing the trade deficit will be more complicated than the Trump administration hopes.

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]]> Weijian Shan says that reducing the trade deficit will be more complicated than the Trump administration hopes.

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]]> Asia Society: Weijian Shan in conversation with NYTs columnist Thomas Friedman https://asiasociety.org/video/out-gobi-china-us-and-one-mans-remarkable-odyssey-complete#new_tab Sat, 19 Jan 2019 23:24:20 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11286 Weijian Shan, legendary financier and pioneer in private equity, delivers a presentation about his new memoir Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America and then engages in discussion with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.

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]]> Weijian Shan, legendary financier and pioneer in private equity, delivers a presentation about his new memoir Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America and then engages in discussion with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman.

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]]> Bill Bishop’s ‘Sinocism China’ https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-china-d9169502-dce8-4257-9ede-da188fefd714.html#new_tab Fri, 18 Jan 2019 23:34:27 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11292 “Worthy of your time: Weijian Shan’s Out of the Gobi traces 40 years of US-China ties”

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]]> “Worthy of your time: Weijian Shan’s Out of the Gobi traces 40 years of US-China ties”

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