Hong Kong-Based: Mao Zedong and Shape-Shifting Trajectory

hong kong-based: Now one of Asia's top financiers and the head of Hong Kong-based private equity firm PAG, Shan told AFP that reading virtually anything he could get his hands on effectively saved his life, providing an escape from the harsh realities of Mao Zedong's oppressive regime. ; I feel like I have lived 5,000 years, Shan said, with his recently published memoir, Out of the Gobi, recounting a life that mirrors China's shape-shifting trajectory, according to The Japan Times. We were all deprived of a formal education for 10 years, he said, referring to China's Lost Generation young men and women who were banished to Inner Mongolia in 1969 and expected to transform an arid landscape into fertile fields. But his sense of hope was kept alive by an unlikely source insecticide manuals. I didn't completely give up, he said. Yanked out of school in Beijing at the age of 12 during the Cultural Revolution, Shan, like millions of youth, was gripped by revolutionary fervor. I read whatever I could sometimes insecticide manuals, sometimes dictionaries. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.