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Among the crowds were people like Yan Kang, a Chinese national and graduate student at Yale University, who said economic development was more important to the Chinese people than any human rights violation...
...Yan. 3, Toronto 2, 11 innings...
...life of an expatriate multinational employee was frustrating for Yan: China's economic prospects were growing so scintillating. He got in touch with a friend who was managing money for the Ziff publishing family and another who knew Texas-based investor Richard Rainwater. With these contacts, Yan attracted $52.5 million for a venture-capital fund targeting new businesses in China...
...investment fund is involved in a scattering of businesses, but Yan admits that in the future he wants to own and manage his own empire, with his biggest ambitions centered on media and such nonideological magazines as PC World and the Chinese version of Popular Mechanics. And though he has proved a wizard at attracting capital, Yan has yet to prove himself as a manager. He has had a hard time attracting and retaining foreign managers, something that will be essential if Richina is to continue growing...
...ultimate burden of globalization, though, lies with entrepreneurs like Yan who, succeed or fail, are stretching old ideas of economic possibility. "Today all my capital is from abroad. But five years from now, I guarantee you, I'll be able to float a company here in China." He adds, with characteristically world-class ambition, "I'll only have to say, I am Richard Yan...