Welcome to the new Gilded Age. The Rockefellers and Rothschilds have nothing on the new money elite in China, Singapore, and elsewhere in Asia. Ross Perlin on Kevin Kwan’s new novel, Crazy Rich Asians, and the making of a new international bling class.
They feast on abalone and bird’s nest, buy up private islands in eastern Indonesia, imbibe only the choicest ginseng (imported from Washington State), zip over to the casinos of Macao, compared to which Vegas is “the kiddie pool.”
