內容簡介
How can Confucianism lead to business and personal success? Follow the extraordinary career of Steve Tsai, whose unshakable commitment to truth, family and nation helped him overcome poverty and deprivation, led him through two terrible wars, and positioned him to play a decisive role in Taiwan’s development as a modern nation-state. In these pages, he looks back on a life full of important lessons for those who seek success and fulfillment, offering hard-earned wisdom and experience, and a heart-felt optimism for life and humanity.
Steve Tsai shares the secrets of his success: family, faith, learning and friends. These constant companions transformed him from a shoeless itinerant student into a driving force of Taiwan’s modernization and ultimately leading figure of the American hotel industry.
本書特色
1. Modern Confucian Entrepreneur also offers invaluable wisdom for how Confucian values, properly understood and applied, can bring success in organizational management, leadership, investment and financial management.
2. Everyone who seeks to understand the development of modern Taiwan and East Asia should read this book.
3. This book, rich in detail and historically important images, will also be of great interest to scholars of literature, history and philosophy.
4. We are witnessing the dawn of the “Chinese Century”, in which the wisdom of traditional Chinese culture and philosophy will be effectively applied to business management and entrepreneurism, and this book presents an excellent case study of the application of Confucianism in business life, along with an insightful and engaging history of Taiwan’s modern economic development.
作者介紹
作者簡介
Liu Kai-ping
Co-author Liu Kai-ping was born in Shanghai from a family originally from Sichuan. Through he dropped out of school at a young age, he was admitted to study Chinese literature at Shanghai’s prestigious Fudan University. He later moved to the United States, where he built a long career in the Chinese news media, serving as the interview director of three San Francisco Chinese language newspapers, including Zhongbao, Sing Tao Daily, and World Journal.
目錄
I. We Make Our Own Path by Steve Tsai 007
II. Foreword by Garrett Eng 013
Foreword：
I. Rising from Poverty to Serve the World by Vincent Siew 023
II. A Man Must Be Caring and Resolute by Wang Chien-shien 029
III. Chivalry and Confucianism Heroism Reaching to the Clouds by Chen Mu-tsai 033
{{ Part 1: Beginning of Propriety }}
Chapter One：Lovely Home, Lovely Hometown
●I Am from Quanzhou 037
●A Benevolent Father 045
●An Illiterate but Sophisticated Mother 053
●Long-Lasting Brotherly Affection, Stronger as Time Passed 058
Chapter Two：The Barefoot Student
●Dreams of School, and a Lost P air of Shoes 073
●Seventeen-year-old Headmaster 081
●A Love Lasting 60 Years 093
{{ Part 2: Beginning of Wisdom }}
Chapter Three：Crossing a Shallow Strait
●Unbearable to Recall - The Last Ship out of Xiamen 109
●A Book Opens Up a New Path 112
●Chapter Four：From Journalist to Entrepreneur A High-Rise Building Built on a Single Salary 123
●Living Room Factories Create 150,000 jobs 127
●Trustworthiness and Fairness Are More Precious Than Gold 137
●Chapter Five：Solving Two Crimes with Wisdom A Murder in Xiamen 143
●A Bizarre Murder in Taipei Goes Unsolved for 50 years 147
{{ Part 3: Beginning of Justice }}
Chapter Six：An Inch of Land, an Inch of Blood
●Remembering the Anti-Japanese War 153
●Showing Bravery to Support a Just Cause, and a Blessing in Disguise 157
●Chapter Seven：Playing a Part in Taiwan's Economic Miracle Unlocking Taiwan's Insurance Industry 167
●The OCBC Incident (I) 179
●The OCBC Incident (II) 196
●Taiwan's First Five-Star International Hotel Chain 199
●Chapter Eight：A Crosswalk in the Real Estate Market Planning Taiwan's Construction Management Industry 211
Chapter Nine：Responsibility for the Nation
●As the United States and Canada Cut Diplomatic Ties, the ROC Establishes Offices to Promote "Business Diplomacy.” 219
●Steve asks the President about the Status of Taiwan as a Nation at Advisory Meeting 233
●Openly Talking about Cross-Strait Relations at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing 238
{{ Part 4: Beginning of Trustworthiness }}
Chapter Ten：Recalling Highlights of a Career in Journalism
●Small Stories about Important People 245
●The Three Directors of the Judicial Yuan Whom I Know 259
●Post-War Sino-Philippine Diplomatic Relations 264
Chapter Eleven：Across the Deep Pacific Ocean Crossing the Ocean for the Children’s Education 271
●Establishing a Hotel Group in the United States 278
Chapter Twelve：Dr. Tsai 's Business Philosophy
●Invigorating a Country through Commerce, Creating Prosperity Through Righteousness 293
{{ Part 5: Converging to Benevolence }}
Chapter Thirteen：Behind the Success
●Behind Every Successful Man is a Good Wife 301
●A Wife's Phone Call Saves Her Husband's Life 314
●Dedication of One Generation to the Next 318
●Family Album 327
Chapter Fourteen：Homecoming
●Rebuilding the Ancestral Home 363
●About the Huaixianglou / Steve Tsai 372
●Dreaming of Hometown 374
●Afterward：A Truly Estimable Person / Kaiping Liu 381
●Appendix：The Life of Steve Tsai 385
