TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wise,Spencer
TI  - The emperor of shoes
SN  - 9780857302182 (hardback)
U1  - 813/.6 23
PY  - 2018///
CY  - Harpenden
PB  - No Exit Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - fast
KW  - Family-owned business enterprises
KW  - Fathers and sons
KW  - Jews, American
KW  - Loyalty
KW  - Shoemakers
KW  - Social problems
KW  - Shoe industry
KW  - Corrupt practices
KW  - Fiction
KW  - China
KW  - Guangdong Sheng
KW  - Guangdong Sheng (China)
KW  - Novels
KW  - lcgft
N2  - Alex Cohen, a twenty-six-year-old Jewish Bostonian, is living in southern China, where his father runs their family-owned shoe factory. Alex reluctantly assumes the helm of the company, but as he explores the plant's vast floors and assembly lines, he comes to a grim realisation: employees are exploited, regulatory systems are corrupt and Alex's own father is engaging in bribes to protect the bottom line. When Alex meets a seamstress named Ivy, his sympathies begin to shift. She is an embedded organiser of a pro-democratic Chinese party, secretly sowing dissonance among her fellow labourers. Will Alex remain loyal to his father and his heritage? Or will the sparks of revolution ignite?
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