Asian godfathers : money and power in Hong Kong and Southeast Asia / Joe Studwell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Studwell, Joe.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Billionaires.

Businesspeople.

Southeast Asia--Economic conditions.

Southeast Asia.

Economic conditions.

Businesspeople--Southeast Asia--Biography.

Billionaires--Southeast Asia--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xxx, 328 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, [2007]

Summary:

This investigative journalists book is an explosive work that lifts the curtain on a world of staggering secrecy and hypocrisy to reveal--for the first time--who the leaders of one of the worlds most important and tumultuous markets really are, how they got to the top, and how they keep themselves there.

Contents:

Part I Godfathers of yore

Part II How to be a post-war godfather

2 How to be a godfather, #1: Get in character 43

3 How to be a godfather, #2: Core cash flow 65

4 How to be a godfather, #3: Structuring an organisation - chief slaves and gweilo running dogs 83

5 How to be a godfather, #4: Banks, piggy banks and the joy of capital markets 94

Part III Godfathers today: Defending the precious

6 The 1990s: Ecstasy and reckoning 125

7 Finale: The politics, stupid 175

Cast of characters 241.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780871139689

0871139685

OCLC:

154673682