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
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.”
Tom Nagorski reviews Weijian Shan’s new memoir, Out of the Gobi, in The Wall Street Journal:
“Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America” is Weijian Shan’s deeply affecting memoir. It is also a story that mirrors China’s dizzying recent history: the Cultural Revolution, with all its madness; the opening to the United States, with all the promise it held; and Deng Xiaoping’s decision to unleash a market-based system, with all the changes it wrought. Mr. Shan has lived this history, suffered from its excesses and thrived thanks to the opening. Today he is one of the more respected and successful financiers in the “new China.”
This essay in Foreign Affairs is adapted from Weijian Shan’s new memoir, Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America (Wiley, 2019).
