Li Ka-shing: Hong Kongs elusive billionaire

By Anthony B. Chan

This is the biography of billionaire Li Ka-shing, the ultimate Hong Kong rags-to-riches success story. The book follows his life from his poor family's flight from the Japanese to Hong Kong in 1940,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771575483
• ISBN13: 9780771575488
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Macmillan Canada
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Not elusive anymore.

Li Ka-shing, the 19th richest man in the world, divested his Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce stock of $1.2b in January 2005. The money is to be set aside in a Canadian charity. As a CIBC investor, I immediately looked for any books on this billionaire. Last week, I came across journalist, A. Chan's absorbing biography and discovered that the questions I wanted answered were written in a straight forward and clear manner. Some of the questions involved Mr. Li's origin, rags to riches story, family, philosophy of life, attitude to money, investments in Canada, and two sons. I especially liked the Hong Kong and Chinese backdrop to his story. After this book, Mr. Li is no longer elusive. This is journalism at its best!