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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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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Bloomberg Daybreak Americas: PAG’s Shan Says US-China May Not Solve All Trade Issues

By |2019-01-26T15:52:54+00:00January 26th, 2019|Categories: Broadcast, Main Featured Broadcast|Tags: , , , , , , |

Weijian Shan talks about the trade war between the U.S. and China, the growth of China’s economy, and his new book, ‘Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America,’ with David Westin and Alix Steel on Bloomberg TV’s flagship morning show, “Bloomberg Daybreak: Americas.”

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NPR One: Full Disclosure

By |2019-01-23T22:54:39+00:00January 23rd, 2019|Categories: Broadcast|

Weijian Shan went from childhood hunger in Mao’s famished China to running Asia’s biggest private equity fund. China’s economy has exploded in size in the 30 years since the Tiananmen Square crackdown, lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. He discusses the opportunities and perils of the country’s unprecedented trajectory.

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Asia Society: Weijian Shan in conversation with NYTs columnist Thomas Friedman

By |2019-01-26T15:54:44+00:00January 19th, 2019|Categories: Broadcast|

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 details his life in new memoir ‘Out of the Gobi’

By |2019-01-19T23:20:50+00:00January 18th, 2019|Categories: Broadcast|

From being exiled in the Gobi desert to becoming the CEO of one of the largest investment management firms in Asia, Weijian Shan has lived an incredible life and shares this story in his new memoir ‘Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America’.

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