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China’s Loneliest Billionaire Ma Dabbles in Tai Chi, Poker

by admin • June 14, 2012 • Comments Off on China’s Loneliest Billionaire Ma Dabbles in Tai Chi, Poker

“Business is not his first love,” said Orville Schell, a former dean of the journalism school at the University of California at Berkeley, and a close friend.

via China’s Loneliest Billionaire Ma Dabbles in Tai Chi, Poker – Bloomberg.

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“Wealth and Power offers everything readers might expect from its two eminent authors. It is both sweeping and specific, authoritative and lively, sympathetic and critical, offering the perspective of both the hedgehog and the fox.”
—James Fallows, national correspondent, The Atlantic

“Orville Schell and John Delury have delivered a brilliantly original and essential book: the road map to China’s quest for national salvation... Vivid, literate, and brimming with insights, Wealth and Power deserves to become a classic.”
—Evan Osnos, China correspondent, The New Yorker

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