Mark L. Clifford

The Troublemaker

How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared Critic

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Produktbeschreibung

Jimmy Lai chose to stay and fight for the city he lovedâ to die in jail for freedom and democracy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781668027691
• ISBN-10: 1668027690
• Artikelnr.: 70063138

Autorenporträt

Mark L. Clifford is president of the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation, an NGO dedicated to democracy, human rights, and the rule of law for the people of Hong Kong. Previously, he was executive director of the Hong Kong–based Asia Business Council, and a board director at Next Digital, the Hong Kong media giant founded and majority-owned by Jimmy Lai. During his twenty-eight years in Hong Kong, he served as editor-in-chief of both English-language newspapers, the South China Morning Post and The Standard, of which he was also publisher. He held senior editorial positions at BusinessWeek and the Far Eastern Economic Review, in Hong Kong and Seoul, and lived in Asia from 1987 until 2020. A history graduate of the University of California Berkeley and a Walter Bagehot Fellow at Columbia University, he holds a PhD in Hong Kong history from the University of Hong Kong. Clifford has won numerous journalism, academic, and book awards, and is the author of Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World: What China’s Crackdown Reveals About Its Plans to End Freedom Everywhere.