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Five years ago, Chen Tianqiao started a bare-bones online gaming company with five employees, two of whom were his wife and brother. Today, after a dazzling IPO, the 31-year-old is one of China's richest men, worth more than $1 billion, with a staff of more than 1,000 and building an interactive-media empire that soon could turn him into a local Rupert Murdoch. Even in the turbo-charged world of Chinese business, Chen's firm, Shanda Networking, has posted stunning growth, expanding 20% each quarter, with $73 million in net income last year. "China...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Changing the Game in China | 6/20/2005 | See Source »

...chairman hone the company's international image by hiring a proper financial comptroller and relieving family members of top-level jobs to avoid nepotism charges. After going public last May, Shanda saw its stock price more than double in just six months; one of Shanda's co-founders, Chen Tianqiao, is one of China's richest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowing Capitalist Seeds | 3/21/2005 | See Source »

...chairman hone the company's international image by hiring a proper financial comptroller and relieving family members of top-level jobs to avoid nepotism charges. After going public last May, Shanda saw its stock price more than double in just six months; one of Shanda's co-founders, Chen Tianqiao, is one of China's richest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sowing Capitalist Seeds | 3/20/2005 | See Source »

There is big trouble in Peking City these days, but even the party faithful are laughing and applauding at the Tianqiao (Heavenly Bridge) Theater. Reason: these capitalist roaders are stepping out on a new stretch of that irresistibly American thoroughfare known as the Great White Way. Since March, ten Americans, led by Director George White of the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn., have been working with 100 Chinese to stage the first American musicals ever seen in the country, The Music Man and The Fantasticks. For Music Man, which just opened, the Chinese took special pains...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: May 25, 1987 | 5/25/1987 | See Source »

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