China TIM CLISSOLD has worked in China for sixteen years and travelled there extensively. After graduating in Physics from Cambridge University and working in London, Australia and Hong Kong, he developed a fascination with China. He spent two years studying Mandarin Chinese before co-founding a private equity group that invested in China. Praise for Mr China ‘It’s got big money, charismatic capitalists, Communist apparatchiks, crime and mysterious disappearances – the lot. Sadly for author Tim Clissold, though, it’s not just a novel – it’s true . . . [But] it’s not, he insists, an anti-China book, at all . . . the real butts are the Wall Street types who thought they could crack China without knowing what they were doing.’ Richard Spencer, The Daily Telegraph ‘Hard to put down . . . delightful for the engaging way in which it details the hardships of any businessman who lives on the road . . . at the same time a useful lesson for those who think there is anything easy about direct investment in brand-new markets.’ Economist ‘Engaging, extremely well-written and often very funny.
