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Be so subtle that you are invisible. Be so mysterious that you are intangible. Then you will control your rivals' fate. A community of fifty-five million expatriates. Up to two trillion dollars in assets. A highly integrated interconnected network of influence and favor. A firm base on the Pacific Rim. Ambitions to influence the West. Imagine the potential power of such an organization. You don't have to. This is the Overseas Chinese. Sterling Seagrave's brilliant book, Lords of the Rim, uncovers a complex web of operations that already dominates the Far East and is making inroads into the West. It is a superbly researched and spectacularly told account of an extraordinary phenomenon, detailing who the Overseas Chinese are and how they became so powerful. Spanning thousands of years, it encompasses stories of murder and betrayal, bravery and corruption; of triads, syndicates, kingmakers, merchants, emperors, generals, spies, and pirates. In telling this masterful and entertaining history, Seagrave provides the reader with a cautionary tale: that Chinese strategies so effective for centuries are just as successful today.
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Lords of the Rim, Sterling Seagrave
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- Released
- 1995
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- Title
- Lords of the Rim
- Subtitle
- The Invisible Empire of the Overseas Chinese
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Sterling Seagrave
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Released
- 1995
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 338
- ISBN10
- 0593029070
- ISBN13
- 9780593029077
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, Business, Business & Management, History, Economics, China, Asia, Asian Fiction
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
- Description
- Be so subtle that you are invisible. Be so mysterious that you are intangible. Then you will control your rivals' fate. A community of fifty-five million expatriates. Up to two trillion dollars in assets. A highly integrated interconnected network of influence and favor. A firm base on the Pacific Rim. Ambitions to influence the West. Imagine the potential power of such an organization. You don't have to. This is the Overseas Chinese. Sterling Seagrave's brilliant book, Lords of the Rim, uncovers a complex web of operations that already dominates the Far East and is making inroads into the West. It is a superbly researched and spectacularly told account of an extraordinary phenomenon, detailing who the Overseas Chinese are and how they became so powerful. Spanning thousands of years, it encompasses stories of murder and betrayal, bravery and corruption; of triads, syndicates, kingmakers, merchants, emperors, generals, spies, and pirates. In telling this masterful and entertaining history, Seagrave provides the reader with a cautionary tale: that Chinese strategies so effective for centuries are just as successful today.