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A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel

  • Writer: Michael Connolly
    Michael Connolly
  • Sep 18
  • 1 min read

Updated: Oct 19

A Death in the Lucky Holiday Hotel by Ho and Huang, PublicAffairs, 2013. 


Jockeying for Position

People in the upper levels of the hierarchy of the Chinese Communist Party are jockeying to go to the top and become members of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.


Death of a British National

This book is about one of these people, Bo Xilai (party chief of Chong Qing), his wife Gu Kailai (a prominent attorney), his rival, Wang Lijun (a chief of police) and Neil Heywood, a British businessman. Heywood ended up dead in the Lucky Holiday Hotel. Heywood was an English language tutor to Bo Guagua, the son of Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai. The situation attained international attention, because (1) the victim was a British national, and (2) Wang Lijun asked for political asylum at the United States consulate in Chengdu. 

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