Synopsis
Tech-savvy "bandit" entrepreneurs testing repressive government policies. Corrupt, old-guard executives lining pockets. Highly educated young engineers and managers forging cutting-edge companies. Nouveau riche hiding assets. "Risky Business in Rising China" is an American businessman's in-the-trenches chronicle of three decades working in multiple industries in China's new economy — and a candid account of the conflicting forces that have transformed the world's most-populous nation into an economic (and military) superpower, yet may doom it to spectacular decline without drastic change in central-government direction. MARK ATKESON took an early career gamble by eschewing work with Corporate America, unlike his fellow Yale engineering grads in 1986, and landing a job in backward but slowly modernizing China: an impoverished nation then vastly overshadowed by Japan's dominance in world trade. Fluent in Chinese, he went on to run companies in fields ranging from aircraft maintenance to electric-vehicle production, mobile internet to venture capital, while he and his wife raised their four children in China. Now living in California, he continues consulting for China-related businesses.
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About the Author
Mark Atkeson is a foremost expert on doing business in China, having managed, partnered in or provided services to Chinese-based companies for more than three decades, in industries ranging from machine tools to aircraft engines, automotive manufacturing, mobile technology, startup investing and asset trading.
A graduate of Yale University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with graduate degrees in electrical engineering and business administration, Atkeson resided in China for 22 years and is fluent in Mandarin. He continues participating in the Chinese economy as founder and managing partner of China Aviation Partners LLC, which provides software services, market research and other consulting for China-related businesses.
A father of four, Mark and his wife, Shannon, reside in Marin County, California. Risky Business in Rising China is his first book.
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