Weijian shan biography of mahatma gandhi
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China
A Brief History of China
- Dynasty, Revolution and Transformation: From the Middle Kingdom to the People's Republic
- Written by: Jonathan Clements
- Narrated by: Julian Elfer
- Length: 11 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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A Brief History of China tells of the development of a rich, complex civilization where the use of paper, writing, money, and gunpowder were widespread in ancient times and where silk, ceramics, tea, metall implements, and other products were produced and exported around the globe....
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Having lived through both China’s Great Leap Forward during primary school, then the Cultural Revolution and the closing of schools for ten years, Beijing-born Weijian Shan, instead of a secondary school education spent six hard years in the Gobi Desert with the Army Construction Corps.
Remarkably, the young Shan made it to a PhD program at UC Berkeley where he met his academic advisor, then Professor Janet Yellen, later U.S. Treasury Secretary. (Somewhat ironically now attending to the insolvencies of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank). Shan goes on to become a Wharton School business professor before moving into investment banking and private equity investing making financial business history with the successful takeover and turnaround of failed banks in South Korea and China.
Both generous with his time and patient with my questions, Dr. Shan is currently the CEO at PAG, a private equity firm managing assets of some $50 billion. We discussed the books in chronological orde
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India New England Dec 2005
Issue Date: 12/19/2005, Posted On: 12/24/2005
By Bal Ram Singh
Sometime in November 1988, I suffered from a minor upset stomach problem (I had slight abdominal discomfort), and visited my physician, Dr. Vastola, in Madison, WI.
As Vastola started questioning, he paused on my answer to his question, "What did you eat yesterday?" I had replied: vegetable curry, rice, and bread. He appeared to have hit upon some treasure, further questioned me about the contents of the curry, and upon hearing it contained all sorts of spices, he immediately pronounced I had ulcer.
"But, Dr. Vastola, my discomfort is towards the lower part of my stomach. Isn't the ulcer to cause discomfort in the upper part of the stomach?" I pleaded. "Hun... hun.., why don't you get this prescription, and see me after three days," he muttered while leaving the prescription in my hand. I was not sure if he accepted my plea or ignored it.
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