• DOI:10.1017/9781316888704.002
Corpus ID: 168857145

Risk, Fate, Fortune: The Lives and Times of Customs Inspectors in Southern China

@inproceedings{Chu2017RiskFF,
  title={Risk, Fate, Fortune: The Lives and Times of Customs Inspectors in Southern China},
  author={J. Chu},
  year={2017}
}

J. Chu

Published 2017

Business

On the day that two Chinese bullet trains collided just south of Wenzhou en route to their final destination in Fujian Province in July 2011, it just so happened that China's most wanted fugitive – the Fujian-based smuggler Lai Changxing – was also finally extradited back to China from Canada to face charges for one of the nation's biggest smuggling and corruption scandals in the post-Mao era. Once anticipated as the headline-making event of the day, Lai's return to Beijing on the afternoon of… CONTINUE READING

View via Publisher

Save to Library

Create Alert

Cite

Launch Research Feed