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One of the dreams on my wish list is to spend more time in Thailand.

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No matter our background, we all have crazy families.

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Canada has become such a staging area for Chinese money.

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The China Rich seem to be spending on a scale that's just beyond anything we've ever seen before. They are building and buying an insane amount of luxury residences around the world, commissioning huge flying palaces from Boeing, and paying ridiculous amounts for art.

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I spent the first 12 years of my life growing up in Singapore. Back then, in the early '80s, it was still a tropical island at the tip of the Malay Peninsula striving to shine on the world stage.

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'China rich' is the new 'crazy rich.' It's a new level of outrageousness. It comes from this world where overnight fortunes have been made, but the fortunes are so ginormous compared to anything we've ever seen in the history of the world.

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I sort of wanted to reveal this other side of Asia: Southeast Asia, where the Chinese have been wealthy for generations and have different ways of relating to money. I wanted to sort of reveal this world to readers.

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In Asia, it's customary to get together with your entire extended family on a regular basis, and it's all rife with politics.

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There's always been this tradition of satirizing these rich groups of people.

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If I were to generalize a bit, I would say that the ultra rich in Asia live on a scale that far surpasses the wealthy in the U.S. or Europe.

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Biography

Nationality: Singaporean

Type: Novelist

Born: Unknown

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