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    Fall from grace

    Oct 31, 2021 3 minutes
    by JEREMY REES

    RED ROULETTE: An insider’s story of wealth, power, corruption and vengeance in today’s China, by Desmond Shum (Simon & Schuster, $37.99)

    Whitney Duan, reputedly China’s richest woman, disappeared on September 5, 2017. She was last seen in her office at the heart of the multibillion-dollar Genesis Beijing complex she had helped build in the financial district on the Liangmahe River, consisting of a Bulgari Hotel, a modern art museum and offices, all linked by architecturally designed gardens and meant to create, in

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