The Wanda Way: Unique access to the insights of China’s brilliant self-made man

The Wanda Way is a book written by the Chairman documenting the global rise of the Wanda Group. A treatise on the culture and strategy that has elevated Wanda Group to becoming the world’s largest commercial property company and propelled Wang Jianlian’s personal fortune to the upper echelons of Asia’s most rich and powerful.

An intelligent man with fierce convictions, Wang is a polymath and entrepreneur in the truest sense. Many will view his road to success paved in gold, but hard work and astonishingly wise business decisions has all contributed to Wanda Group’s rise.

Part autobiography, part business manual, the book begins with details of Wang’s personal philosophy on perseverance, determination and innovation. Reflecting on his experience as a young man from rural China, through to his ascendance in the People’s Liberation Army, and his stellar transformation into the pre-eminent force in Chinese business.

In the latter part of the book, readers are given a glimpse of the company’s more recent developments and valuable insights to the growing reach of Wanda Group. Defining moments in the growth of Wanda Group in China are revealed - rarely seen in English. Ultimately, readers are treated to a preview of where Wanda is heading and its strategic positioning as a world force in entertainment, business and culture.

Interspersed among the chapters are snippets of speeches Wang has delivered across China in recent years, fascinating insights of a brilliant business mind.

Already a cult figure in his native country, Wang has been making waves globally in recent years with his group’s purchases and acquisitions of such institutions as Spanish football team, Atletico de Madrid, AMC Cinemas and most recently, Legendary Pictures, to name but a few.

Initially written in Chinese and over 610,000 copies sold, breaking the Chinese management book sales record, the release of the English language edition will be the first time western audiences will have ready access to what is to become a gem in the business writing genre.