One Billion Customers - James McGregor [3]
Hu Shuli Managing editor of Caijing magazine and crusading reporter who has set new standards for watchdog journalism in China.
Liu Changle Founder, chairman, and CEO of Phoenix Satellite Television and media entrepreneur who guided Rupert Murdoch into China.
Wang Wenlian The first director of Xinhua regulatory body, the Foreign Information Administration Center, that monitors foreign news and financial information coming into China.
Yun Yiqun Famous wartime reporter in China and founder and director of several journalism schools who as a political outcast taught Hu Shuli the importance of ethical and responsible journalism.
Historical Figures
Chiang Kai-shek (1887–1975) The Chinese Nationalist leader who fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing the civil war to Mao Zedong.
Carl Crow (1883–1945) American journalist-turned-businessman and author of 400 Million Customers published in 1937, who lived in Shanghai for twenty-six years and founded one of the first advertising agencies in China.
Charles George “Chinese” Gordon (1833–1885) A British mercenary and adventurer who led the “Ever Victorious Army” in crushing the Taiping Rebellion for the Qing dynasty.
Emperor Qianlong (1711–1799) The fourth emperor of the Qing dynasty who rebuffed British attempts to open China to foreign trade.
Empress Dowager (1835–1908) Also known as Cixi, a powerful and charismatic imperial concubine who was the de facto ruler of China at the end of the Qing dynasty in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
Hong Xiuquan (1814–1864) Leader of the Taiping Rebellion in 1851 who declared himself to be the “Younger Brother of Jesus Christ” and ruled much of southern China for a dozen years.
Li Hongzhang (1823–1901) Chinese official in the Qing dynasty who became the country’s first and foremost barbarian handler.
Lin Zexu (1785–1850) The Chinese commissioner in Canton who was ordered to put an end to the illegal opium trade.
Lord George Macartney (1737–1806) An envoy sent by King George III in 1793 to open China to British trade who was rebuffed by the emperor.
Scholars
Justin Lin Academic entrepreneur who founded the first independent economic research institute in China, the China Center for Economic Research, and Beijing International MBA (BiMBA), one of the first MBA schools in China.
Lucian Pye MIT Sinologist and political psychologist who wrote Chinese Negotiating Style.
John Yang A mainland native and Fordham University management professor who is the U.S. dean for the BiMBA school and leading theorist on blending the East and West to build new business management systems in China.
Lai Changxing Case
Lai Changbiao Lai Changxing’s brother, accused of running the cigarette smuggling business. He ended up a paraplegic after a bar fight.
Lai Changtu Lai Changxing’s brother, who ran the automobile smuggling operation and is serving fifteen years in jail.
Lai Changxing Peasant entrepreneur who built the $6 billion Yuanhua smuggling empire in partnership with Chinese military and police organizations and went from respected tycoon to China’s most-wanted criminal when Premier Zhu Rongji cracked down on smuggling by the Chinese military.
Lai Shuiqiang Lai Changxing’s oldest brother who died in prison after convincing thirteen others involved in the case to return to China from overseas and face charges.
Lan Fu Vice-mayor of Xiamen and inveterate gambler who was sentenced to death for taking some $600,000 in bribes from Lai. His death sentence was commuted to an indeterminate prison term after he assisted prosecutors.
Li Jizhou Close friend to Lai and vice-minister of China’s Public Security Bureau who headed China’s antismuggling efforts and was sentenced to death after he, his wife, and his daughter received more than $600,000 from Lai. His death sentence was commuted to an indeterminate prison sentence after he assisted prosecutors.
Yang Qianxian Award-winning chief of Xiamen customs and Communist party secretary for the organization