About the book
A small number of families dominate the economies of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia, a region home to five hundred million people, and Joe Studwell sets out to separate the facts about these billionaires from the myths that surround them. Their holdings stretch across sugar and shipping, banking and property, lumber and gambling. Drawing on fifteen years of reporting from the region, Studwell builds close portraits of the men at the top, how they rose and how they hold on to their position. He also traces the historical, economic and political forces at work in Southeast Asia across the last century and a half. The mythology he examines colors wider views of Asian business, culture and economics.
Erik Cheong, co-founder of Park N Parcel, said he loves history and is curious how so few families came to dominate the region's economies, and he admired how these entrepreneurs turned political and economic obstacles into opportunity.
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Erik Cheong (Co-Founder/Park N Parcel)
I love history and am very curious how South East Asia economies are dominated by only fifty families whose interests range from banking to real estate, shipping to sugar, gambling to lumber etc. It is so amazing to know how all these groups of entrepreneurs overcome both political and economic challenges by turning it into opportunity, grow their business and becoming who they are today.
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