Mr. China’s Great Enterprise: Tim Clissold and the Fight for a Chinese Civilisation A-level
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Welcome to the Seneca Podcast, the weekly discussion of current affairs in China. In this program, we look at books, ideas, new research, intellectual currents, and cultural trends that can help us better understand what's happening in China's politics, foreign relations, economics, and society. Join me each week for in-depth conversations that shed more light and bring less heat to how we think and talk about China. I'm Kaiser Gwell, coming to you this week from Beijing. Apologies for the long gap between episodes of late. I've been traveling a lot and it's been really disruptive. Listeners, please support my work by becoming a paying subscriber at cinecapodcast.com.
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My guest this week, I'm very happy to say, is Tim Clisold. If you read one book about doing business in China back in the two thousands There's a fair chance that it was his, Mr China. The story of how a young Englishman who ended up as the man in the middle between four hundred odd million dollars of Wall Street money and close to twenty Chinese joint ventures. That were to put it gently, not
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