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Murder, Money, and an Epic Power Struggle in China
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April 2013
On Sale: April 2, 2013
320 pages
ISBN: 1610392736
EAN: 9781610392730
Kindle: B00B6TVDEG
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Non-Fiction
The downfall of Bo Xilai in China was more than a darkly
thrilling mystery. It revealed a cataclysmic internal power
struggle between Communist Party factions, one that reached
all the way to China’s new president Xi Jinping.
The
scandalous story of the corruption of the Bo Xilai
family—the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood; Bo’s
secret lovers; the secret maneuverings of Bo’s supporters;
the hasty trial and sentencing of Gu Kailai, Bo’s wife—was
just the first rumble of a seismic power struggle that
continues to rock the very foundation of China’s
all-powerful Communist Party. By the time it is over, the
machinations in Beijing and throughout the country that
began with Bo’s fall could affect China’s economic
development and disrupt the world’s political and economic
order.
Pin Ho and Wenguang Huang have pieced together
the details of this fascinating political drama from
firsthand reporting and an unrivaled array of sources, some
very high in the Chinese government. This was the first
scandal in China to play out in the international
media—details were leaked, sometimes invented, to
non-Chinese news outlets as part of the power plays that
rippled through the government. The attempt to manipulate
the Western media, especially, was a fundamental dimension
to the story, and one that affected some of the early
reporting. A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel returns
to the scene of the crime and shows not only what happened
in Room 1605 but how the threat of the story was every bit
as important in the life and death struggle for power that
followed. It touched celebrities and billionaires and redrew
the cast of the new leadership of the Communist Party. The
ghost of Neil Heywood haunts China to this day.
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