Walking the Tycoons Rope : How Ambition Drove a Poor Boy from Ningbo to Compete with the Richest Men of Hong Kong & Singapore Emrys Chew 'The odyssey of a simple

'The odyssey of a simple man

an age of increasingly frequent and intense periods of turbulence in the global economy

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

When Ada grows up and heads to college in America

Walking the Tycoons Rope : How Ambition Drove a Poor Boy from Ningbo to Compete with the Richest Men of Hong Kong & Singapore Emrys Chew 'The odyssey of a simpleRobert Wang fled the Chinese civil war as a child and came to Hong Kong with nothing. It was a harsh place in the 1950s but he was determined to rise to the top. With the 1997 handover to China approaching, and no one knowing what the end of British rule would bring, Robert hatched an audacious scheme to safeguard the fortunes of Hong Kong's richest tycoons but swimming with sharks has its dangers.