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The Bo Xilai Scandal ePub eBook
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The Bo Xilai Scandal ePub eBook

by FT reporters reporters
February 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
95 pages
1h 34m
English
FT Publishing International
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A long way from home

As the cyanide took effect, Neil Percival Heywood must have looked up at the tacky photos of trees and waterfalls on the mustard-coloured wallpaper and wondered how he ever got involved in the vicious world of Chinese politics.

The dingy room at the Lucky Holiday Hotel – a three-star hilltop resort in the Chinese metropolis of Chongqing where he was found dead on November 15, 2011 – was a long way from his childhood in a middle-class suburb in London or his education at Harrow, the elite private school attended by Winston Churchill and Lord Byron.

Although he had become depressed and worried about his involvement with one of China’s most powerful political families and he had seen enough to know how they dealt with those ...

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