Tiger Woman on Wall Street

In Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back, Junheng Li writes about her journey from China to America, shattering conventional wisdom along the way.

Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back is the remarkable story of how one woman has risen to the top of the traditionally male-dominated world of finance. Raised by “tiger parents” in China in the 1980s, when the Chinese economy was just starting to boom, Junh Li came to the United States to attend college and climbed her way up to the top with a relentless personal drive and a remarkable talent for investing and finance.

Tiger Woman on Wall Street: Winning Business Strategies from Shanghai to New York and Back is both an autobiographical tell-all and a critical review of Chinese and American comparative cultures and economies. It tells the story of the remarkable, dramatic journey of one woman’s rise in the global business world as well as being a savvy guide to finance and investing – giving international investors both the insight and the hard advice they need to navigate the increasing complexities of the global economy. With unflinching candour, Junheng Li tells how a brainy, focused, a highly driven Chinese girl who admired Scarlett O’Hara’s indomitable spirit drew on the best of both worlds to go where few women have gone before: straight to the top of the financial industry.

The book takes you behind the scenes of the world’s most important financial markets, from the daily routine of trading to high-level meetings with executives, policy makers, and analysts. Li conveys in fascinating and revealing detail how she arrives at her investing decisions–a powerful combination of keen intuition, meticulous due diligence, and razor-sharp analysis. Li argues that the current Chinese business growth model has hit a wall and shows why investors need to keep both eyes firmly open when investing–especially in China.

By reading this book, you will learn how one of today’s most successful China analysts smells a questionable investment a mile away, predicts industry trends, forecasts stock price movements, and develops investment ideas–both long and short–using techniques ranging from scrutinizing data to posing as an average customer in order to examine firsthand a company’s latest product. You will also meet colourful characters such as Knucklehedgie, an American hedge fund manager who invests in Chinese companies based on brokers’ bragging, and a Chinese executive who takes conference calls with investors while at nightclubs and who made his fortune by selling fraudulent Chinese companies to global investors.

“My father’s quintessential tiger parenting ultimately resulted in an American success story built on Chinese strengths,” Junheng Li tells us about her upbringing in the suburbs of Shanghai in the 1980s, her American college experience in Vermont in the 1990s, and her successful Wall Street career in the 2000s. Drawing on her experience as a Chinese citizen and an American businesswoman—Li now runs a boutique investment research firm specializing in Chinese companies—she sheds light on deep issues such as declining moral values in a communist state, and more practical matters like the risks hidden in the Chinese banking system.

Striking a rare balance between page-turning storytelling and practical investing guide, Tiger Woman on Wall Street shows how one woman has navigated her way through and thrived in this increasingly complicated and exciting period in modern financial history.

For anyone interested in how the world’s second-largest economy works, this book provides a great overview, neatly packaged within the life story of a remarkable and interesting woman.

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