Fortune: China’s Private Equity King Says The Country’s Economic Slowdown Has Just Begun

By |2019-01-24T22:38:08+00:00January 24th, 2019|Categories: Articles, Main Featured Article|

Though he lives and works in Hong Kong, Shan was in town to promote his new book, Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America. It chronicles the nightmare of being torn from his family in Beijing as a teenager in 1969 and sent to the Gobi Desert, where he toiled as a laborer for six years. Shan relates how China’s liberalization under Deng Xiaoping enabled him to join the first generation dispatched by the government to study in the U.S.

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Rana Foroohar: ‘China’s Xi Jinping is no Davos man’

By |2019-01-21T17:49:21+00:00January 20th, 2019|Categories: Articles|

“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’

By |2019-01-19T23:30:28+00:00January 19th, 2019|Categories: Articles|

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

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A top Asia dealmaker retraces a life shaped by 40 years of US-China relations

By |2019-01-17T14:41:56+00:00January 16th, 2019|Categories: Articles|

Shan’s autobiography may well one day be read by generations to come for a unique perspective on a better time in US-China relations.

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Excerpt: Debating Chairman Mao in the People’s Republic of Berkeley

By |2019-01-17T14:41:12+00:00January 9th, 2019|Categories: Articles|

Weijian Shan describes how he received an unexpected reminder of home in the “People’s Republic of Berkeley”

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