Cindy Yu Cindy Yu

How China’s economic revolution created billionaires overnight

Desmond Shum’s exposé of corruption in the noughties and the obscene wealth shared by politicians and entrepreneurs has clearly spooked the authorities

Desmond Shum with his wife and son. [©Desmond Shum]

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