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Asian Godfathers
JOE STUDWELL
is the editor of the China Economic Quarterly
and a director of the Asian research firm Dragonomics (www.dragonomics.net
). He is also the author of The China Dream: The elusive quest for the greatest untapped market on
Earth
(Profile, 2002).
Also by Joe Studwell
The China Dream
Asian Godfathers
Money and Power in Hong Kong
and south-east Asia
Joe Studwell
This paperback edition published in 2008
First published in Great Britain in 2007 by
Profile Books Ltd
3A Exmouth House
Pine Street
Exmouth Market
London EC1R 0JH
www.profilebooks.com
Copyright © Joe Studwell 2007, 2008
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The moral right of the author has been asserted.
All rights reserved. Without limiting the rights under copyright reserved above, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.
A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
eISBN 978-1-84765-144-0
For my father, Eric, who died unexpectedly while this book was being finished. We miss him.
Contents
Maps
Introduction
Author’s note
Part I Godfathers of yore
1
The context
Part II How to be a post-war godfather
2
How to be a godfather, #1: Get in character
3
How to be a godfather, #2: Core cash flow
4
How to be a godfather, #3: Structuring an organisation – chief slaves and gweilo
running dogs
5
How to be a godfather, #4: Banks, piggy banks and the joy of capital markets
Part III Godfathers today: Defending the precious
6
The 1990s: Ecstasy and reckoning
7
Finale: The politics, stupid
Notes
Cast of characters
Selected bibliography
Appendix
Acknowledgements
Cover artwork legend
Introduction
Fitzgerald: ‘
You know, the rich are different than you and
me.’
Hemingway: ‘
Yes, they have more
money.’
An exchange Ernest Hemingway claimed to have had with F. Scott Fitzgerald
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his is a book about a small group of very rich men – the south-east Asian billionaires who, in the post-Second World War era, came to dominate the domestic economies of their region. For the purposes of what follows, south-east Asia is defined as the five original members of the Association of S ............

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