Feeding the Dragon
Inside the Trillion Dollar Dilemma Facing Hollywood, the NBA, & American Business
by Chris Fenton
Reading Profile
Should I read this?
Fast-paced, anecdote-driven memoir that feels like a trade-magazine exposé crossed with geopolitical reporting. The book’s value lies in scene-level recollections of dealmaking and reputational risk where market access and political influence intersect, useful for understanding the textures of those negotiations. The main limitation is a partisan, self-defensive tone: repetition, selective detail, and occasional boastful passages weaken analytical distance. Better when read for vivid inside stories than for balanced, footnoted investigation.
Read this if...
- •a film-industry executive negotiating cross-border co-productions who needs practical, on-the-ground warnings about reputational and contractual pitfalls
- •a sports-marketing manager working on international partnerships who wants vivid examples of how political sensitivities can reshape sponsorship and broadcast deals
- •a business reporter writing a long-form feature on commercial ties with China who needs colorful first-person anecdotes and lead-worthy scenes to turn into reporting
Skip this if...
- •you'll likely put it down when the narrative reverts to lists of deals and name-checked encounters — the midsection repeats similar anecdotes and can feel like bragging
- •annoying if you prefer neutral, heavily sourced argumentation rather than a single-author, opinionated memoir voice
- •not suitable if you want a systematic, academic account of soft-power dynamics — the book favors personality and incident over balanced synthesis
As seen on Fox News's Tucker Carlson Tonight! A deeply revealing memoir of big wins and hard lessons from a seasoned executive caught smack in the middle of the trilliondollar soft power struggle pitting China against Hollywood, the NBA, and American business.?Paced like a thriller, with comparable doses of international intrigue and conflict, Ch...
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Reading Specifications
Difficulty:easy
Audience Fit
- a film-industry executive negotiating cross-border co-productions who needs practical, on-the-ground warnings about reputational and contractual pitfalls
- a sports-marketing manager working on international partnerships who wants vivid examples of how political sensitivities can reshape sponsorship and broadcast deals
- a business reporter writing a long-form feature on commercial ties with China who needs colorful first-person anecdotes and lead-worthy scenes to turn into reporting
- you'll likely put it down when the narrative reverts to lists of deals and name-checked encounters — the midsection repeats similar anecdotes and can feel like bragging
- annoying if you prefer neutral, heavily sourced argumentation rather than a single-author, opinionated memoir voice
- not suitable if you want a systematic, academic account of soft-power dynamics — the book favors personality and incident over balanced synthesis
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Why recommended
Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books.
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Recommendation Signals
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Sonny Bunch
“And if you like the podcast makes sure to check out Chris?s book. He?s a bit more dovish on China than I am?I?m more skeptical of soft power now than I ever have been, sadly?but it?s a great ontheground view of China/Hollywood relations. | And if you like the podcast makes sure to check out Chris’s book. He’s a bit more dovish on China than I am—I’m more skeptical of soft power now than I ever have been, sadly—but it’s a great ontheground view of China/Hollywood relations.”
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