Feeding the Dragon, Chris Fenton
Feeding the Dragon, Chris Fenton
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Feeding the Dragon
Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Business

Author: Chris Fenton

Narrator: Gabriel Vaughan

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Ascent Audio

Published: 10/06/2020


Synopsis

A deeply revealing memoir of big wins and hard lessons from a seasoned executive caught smack in the middle of the trillion-dollar soft power struggle pitting China against Hollywood, the NBA, and American business.

"Paced like a thriller, . . . Chris Fenton's bracingly candid business memoir Feeding the Dragon takes [listeners] deep behind the scenes of Hollywood's shaky foothold in China. Dealing at the highest levels with Chinese government officials and major American brands like Disney, Marvel, and the NBA, [Fenton] defied authorities on both sides of the superpower divide to make billions—and history.

Thanks to a brisk, [engaging] storytelling style and an evenhanded, insider-level perspective . . ., Feeding the Dragon manages to be both timeless and timely. Captivating details on Robert Downey Jr., LeBron James, Kurt Cobain, [and] Michael Phelps, . . . (among others) will enthrall average fans and aspiring moguls alike. But the beating narrative heart remains Fenton's down-to-earth recounting of a headline-making journey. Ultimately, the intrepid exec builds a compelling case for the power of "cultural diplomacy": mutually-beneficial, soft power-sharing exchanges as a better way forward than the hardliner battle lines being drawn across Beijing, Washington, and Los Angeles." —Jamie Bryan, Fast Company contributor

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ben on January 23, 2023

Look At Me - I Did't Learn -Fenton This was an upsetting book. Whereas similar books such as Red Carpet: Hollywood, China, and the Global Battle for Cultural Supremacy tackled the problems with these multi-million US conglomerates dealing with China, this book was more of a biography of Fenton and how......more

Goodreads review by Magdalena on October 17, 2020

Good grief, the whole thing has been written like a pitch. It’s full of interesting anecdotes and fascinating details, but it really shows that the author has built his career on convincing people to invest in his projects with well-crafted business messaging, because there were whole sections of th......more

Goodreads review by Terrible Book Club on December 11, 2022

Hollywood agent Chris Fenton promises a "deeply revealing memoir" with Feeding the Dragon, but it seems to be more of a glossy, dimensionless jerk-off session with a shoddy Chinese backdrop instead. It's difficult to trust Fenton's assertions that he is an expert on China when he doesn't speak Chines......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on September 09, 2020

Chris Fenton’s narrative of making Iron Man 3 and navigating the challenges of making a film in partnership with by China is insightful and thought provoking. Avoiding a cold or even a hot war with China depends, in part, on our ability to wage cultural detente.......more

Goodreads review by Steve on January 28, 2022

This is an ominous book about the increasing economic power that China has and how it is using that power to dictate policy to American businesses. There are implications when the huge amount of potential monies cause companies to compromise their principles and their patriotism. There is too much a......more