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China Cuckoo |
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Mark Kitto |
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| During the Lunar New Year in 1999, unexpectedly finding himself idle during the annual lull in business activity in China, Mark Kitto, one of the founders of the hugely popular English language listing that’s magazines, decides to spend a weekend in the enchanting mountain village. Moganshan, just a few hours away from Shanghai, was once an idyllic summer resort favored by foreigners in the early 1900s. He falls in love with the beautiful, isolated bamboo-enveloped village and fantasizes about one day restoring one of the charming 1920s-30s villas as a weekend getaway from the noisy bustle of Shanghai. He finds the perfect house, manages to maneuver through the quick sands of village politics and inscrutable Chinese bureaucracy to secure a long term lease, and starts the renovation, a hilarious, nonsensical and often frustrating process, fraught with fires, typhoons, conflicting regulations and other typical ‘China’ pitfalls and mishaps. Meanwhile his media business is thriving, and Kitto is even named a “mini-media mogul” by the Financial Times, but in a dramatic turn of events, he loses his business and fortune in 2004. Kitto, his urbane wife and two young children decide to make Moganshan their permanent home, leaving the clamor, glamour and sophistication of Shanghai for the isolated village, where they take over an old brothel to create a quaint western-style café. Amusing, touching, perceptive and inspiring, China Cuckoo is an intimate portrayal of one man’s journey of success, loss and discovery in China. |
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| Mark Kitto was a captain in the Welsh Guards before he became a commodities trader in China. He was one of the creators of that’s English language magazines in China, and was describes as a “mini media mogul” by the Financial Times, before he lost his media business. Rejecting corporate life, he now lives with his Chinese born wife and two children in the beautiful mountain region of Moganshan, where he and his wife run a coffee shop. He also writes a column on China for UK’s Prospect Magazine. |
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