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Arriving in Bejing in 1998, Ethan Gutmann rapidley made his way into the expatriate community of American Enterprreneurs seeking riches in the New China. In this well Catered equivalent of a Corporate Boot Camp, Gutman was indocritrinated in the creed that China`s growth presented untapped opportunites for profit. As he worked his way into comfortable positions at a Chinese Television Documentry Company and at a Public Affairs Firm leading the U.S. Politicians on choreographed tours of the New China, He became the Insider. What he discovered in the companys meetings, cocktail parties and after hour expaty haunts made him uneasy. Motorola reps bragged of routinely bribing Chinese Officials forket market access. Asia Global Crossing executives burned through company expences accounts while racking up massive losses for the corporation. PR consultants provided sevelte Mongolian prostituites and five star hotels suits for home office delegations. In Beijing, Expast fast lane , success was measured not only in market share , but also in the ability to pay off favours by lobbing for Chinese interests in Washington. Treating the New China as a combination EI Dorado and Lotus Land , American Businessmen allowed themselves to be drawn into a hallucinatory Orientalist dream world of easy money and moral complecity.
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