Engines of Fortune (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781966814122)

This memoir chronicles the remarkable journey of Mr. Guotai Yu, a man who rose from humble beginnings as a farmer and teacher in Zibo, Shandong Province, China, to become an entrepreneur during China's transformative reform and opening-up era (1981-2000).

In his memoir, Guotai Yu offers a highly personal and detailed aceount of how Chinese society and businesses operated at local and provincial levels during China's opening and reform in the late twentieth century.

His account highlights the importance of guanxi, navigating official paperwork and bureaucracy, and the necessity of maintaining constant determination. It also relates numerous old Shandongese legends, along with personal anecdotes that are both highly entertaining and in-formative, about how China transitioned from the Mao era to the present century.