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A 30-year masterclass in resilience. The psychology behind China's rise & its Black Heart wisdom, helping you read an uncertain world, build ultimate resilience & win unthinkable wars. En & De.
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Paper Tigers and Bank Envelopes
Chapter 22. An Exercise in Perception Management and Operational Expenses. Shanghai, Fall 1997.
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Supplement: List of Key Characters
An on-going list of key characters, as the "Sky" story develops, chapter by chapter. Updated regularly.
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Partnership with Chinese Characteristics
Chapter 21. When they Slap the Face to Look Important. Shanghai, Fall 1997.
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The Logic of Leverage
Chapter 20. Discovering old shadows in new rooms. An exercise in Black Heart accounting and a cold change of course. Shanghai, 1997.
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The Puppet’s Rebellion
Chapter 19. The end of a vacuous charlatan. How the petty stupidity of the boss who wasn’t turned a coward into a nationalist. Shanghai, 1996.
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The Beauty Trap
Chapter 18. The grounding weight of marriage. The ‘Win-Win’ of a fake pregnancy. The dismantling of arrogance. Taipei, 1996.
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The Lethality of Silence
Chapter 17. The deadly power of a Black Heart stratagem. Reading the shadows, and the hardening of a shield that works. Taipei, 1995.
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The Power of Rejection
Chapter 16. The final severing of kinship. The iron will of a brown paper bag in Russell Square, and my return to the fire with a vengeance. Germany …
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A Numbing Void
Chapter 15. Ditching my formative roots, and the idiocy of Western companies sleepwalking into carefully set traps. Germany, Summer 1995.
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The Tomb Sweeper’s Vow
Chapter 14. Burying the ghost of the past and anchoring my boat in a sea that only respects the sharks. Guangdong, Spring 1995.
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Riding the Tiger
Chapter 13. Riding the tiger through orchestrated betrayal. Where the law is a phantom and survival demands a spirit tempered for a rigged game…
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The Art of the Twisted Deal
Chapter 12. Trust as a hollow contract, partnership as a slow-motion heist. Waking up to the crushing weight of one’s own naivety. Guangdong, 1994.
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A Piece of the Sky
A Piece of the Sky
The 30-year deeply human experience of China’s rise, unlocking its psychology & ‘Black Heart’ wisdom as the ultimate art of survival in an uncertain world. A universal masterclass in resilience and turning life's chaos into triumph. English&Deutsch.

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The 30-year deeply human experience of China’s rise, unlocking its psychology & ‘Black Heart’ wisdom as the ultimate art of survival in an uncertain world. A universal masterclass in resilience and turning life's chaos into triumph. English&Deutsch.
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