A Brave Enterprise

Success is fun both onstage and off, but for a young impresario of Broadway musicals the two worlds can go in tandem, reports Raymond Zhou.

If you browse through books at airport stores in China, or sample the hottest Web postings, you won't miss the biggest trend in the Middle Kingdom: tips on making it big by making tons of money.

Chinese even coined a word for it, "successology", a faux science which some are slavishly loyal to and others thumb their noses at. In China, the notion of success, especially as conventionally defined, has become both a shot in the arm and excess baggage.