China Cuckoo

In booming Shanghai, Mark Kitto hit the big time. One weekend, Mark escapes to Moganshan, a dilapidated mountaintop village built by foreigners in the early 1900s as a summer retreat. Mark falls in love with the place and decides to restore one of the villas, as if he were in Tuscany or Provence. Author Mark Kitto is a British entrepreneur, magazine publisher, and writer notable for investing and living in the People's Republic of China. During his time in China he lived in Shanghai before relocating to Mount Mogan where he ran a restaurant and guest houses.