How A British Rebel Took On The Chinese Propaganda Machine
Format: Paperback, 352 pages. Category: Fiction. ISBN 978-988-16775-7-0
For seven roller coaster years, Mark Kitto outwitted powerful competitors and jealous partners to build that’s magazines, the most profitable and popular English language publishing business in China since 1949.
that’s magazines helped to define the new zeitgeist for China in the post-WTO era. The Telegraph described Mark as a ‘mini media mogul’ and the New York Times called him ‘one of the best-known foreign entrepreneurs of his generation in China.’
But then the government came calling. To the Chinese Communist Party, media is state owned propaganda. No individuals, let alone foreigners, will ever have a stake in it. Confronted by powerful enemies without, and treachery within, Mark faced losing everything.
Mark’s story is now being told in full for the first time: the book was going to be published by an American publisher, but they dropped it at the last minute from concern about the impact on their commercial interests in China.