Main Featured Article Archives - Weijian Shan https://weijian-shan.com/category/main-featured-article-broadcast/ Economist, businessman, author of Out of the Gobi Mon, 06 Mar 2023 15:03:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 WSJ: ‘Out of the Gobi’ Review: The Good Earth Was Elsewhere https://www.wsj.com/articles/out-of-the-gobi-review-the-good-earth-was-elsewhere-11548623993#new_tab Sun, 27 Jan 2019 22:26:44 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11348 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 [...]

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]]> 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.”

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]]> Foreign Affairs: China Turned Upside Down – Life During Mao’s Bloody, Chaotic Cultural Revolution https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2019-01-26/china-turned-upside-down#new_tab Sat, 26 Jan 2019 15:19:15 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11337 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).

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]]> 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).

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]]> Fortune: China’s Private Equity King Says The Country’s Economic Slowdown Has Just Begun http://fortune.com/2019/01/24/china-slowdown-private-equity-shan/#new_tab Thu, 24 Jan 2019 22:38:08 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11333 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 [...]

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]]> 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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]]> Op-Ed: American Companies Need More Chinese Consumers https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/opinion/apple-china.html#new_tab Mon, 07 Jan 2019 03:26:27 +0000 http:/?p=1 “Apple’s declining sales reveal how important the health of China’s economy consumer market is to the world’s economy.”

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]]> “Apple’s declining sales reveal how important the health of China’s economy consumer market is to the world’s economy.”

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