Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back

CHAPTER 5Dreaming of a New Land

Shanghai, 1992

AS THE MUSIC BEGAN TO SWELL AND THE CREDITS ROLLED across the screen, I squirmed in my seat.

“Sit still, Li Junheng!” my father snapped. It was one of his cherished moments of cultural edification, and I was threatening to ruin it with my childishness. Gone with the Wind was one of the first foreign films to become popular in China after the Reform and Opening Up policy began in 1978, and my father, American history fanatic that he was, had been looking forward to seeing it for months. He had finally located a showing one Saturday on a college campus in Shanghai. All I knew about it was that the movie was four hours long. We were cramped in a small, dark room with about 50 other people, and I couldn’t ...