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...first lead role, for the movie In the Mix, R&B singer Usher plays a disk jockey who is hired to be the bodyguard for a Mafia princess...
...Still, when rich Chinese hire a security detail, protection isn't always their primary concern. Cui Fengxian, a Beijing lawyer, founded Beijing Capital Bodyguard Security Consultants, which in 2002 was the first firm of its kind to receive government approval to do business, because he believed China lacked adequate means to protect its richest citizens. Now he estimates that about 30% of his 200 clients hire his guards-all former secret-service members-for "ornamental" reasons. Cui travels with eight bodyguards himself and dresses them in long leather coats. "It's a question of image," he says. "[These...
...been a close friend of both men. Li says he "realized then that as soon as a Chinese person discloses his wealth, danger is waiting." Today he refrains from inviting friends to his opulent Beijing villa, keeps his net worth a secret (Jianguo is a pseudonym), and pays a bodyguard $1,200 a month to ensure that "the poor people who hate us for using our talent to get rich" won't come after his own sons...
...anxieties of Li and his thick-bankbooked brethren are spawning a lucrative boom in China's private-security business. The body-guarding profession was officially abolished along with other "feudal" trades after the Communists came to power in 1949, and baobiao, the Chinese word for bodyguard, retains a tinge of ill-repute. Because of this political legacy, the industry still occupies a legal gray area, but bodyguards are now in such demand that the top earners can make $5,000 a month. "As China's economy develops, safety problems will increase, and that means businesses like ours will continue...
...companies in China openly advertise themselves as bodyguarding outfits, and most of them register officially as investigators or providers of other business services. The homepage of the Shanghai-based Shuaika Commercial Consultation Co. shows smiling Westerners in a gleaming boardroom. But click a button that reads "élite bodyguards" and the screen fills with photos of bare-chested men flexing their pecs. Still, the majority of Chinese bodyguards are freelancers; typically ex-soldiers, ex-police or graduates of martial-arts academies, they find work through friends or former teachers. Ding Zhongmin, a kickboxing expert who runs the Yingcai Bodyguard Training...