That’s China London Launch with Mark Kitto – 5/11/14 – Daunts Marylebone

It may seem like just yesterday to some of us, but to many younger people the events that took place in Shanghai back in the 1990s and early 2000s are indeed ancient history, so they probably now get included on China Rhyming.

Anyway, the saga of Mark Kitto and the That’s magazine empire in China has become quite legendary (and the details in brief here for those not in the know) and now there’s a book by the man himself detailing those events….That’s China

launching this week at Daunts in Marylebone and China Rhymers are invited….

 In his best-selling debut, China Cuckoo, Mark Kitto described how he ‘lost a fortune and found a life in China’. In That’s China, the thrilling prequel, he tells the story of how he made that fortune. To the Chinese Communist Party, media is state owned propaganda. No individuals, let alone foreigners, will ever have a stake in it For seven roller coaster years, Mark Kitto outwitted powerful competitors and jealous partners to build the most profitable and popular English language publishing business in China since 1949. No foreigner in modern times has come so close to the heart of the Chinese propaganda machine on his own terms. Not even Rupert. Told with Kitto’s trademark self-deprecating humour and potentially unsettling honesty, That’s China is a rare thing, a business saga that will have you on the edge of your seat all the way to the final showdown; in the highest law court in China.