Duncan Clark first met Jack in 1999 in the small apartment where Jack founded Alibaba.Granted unprecedented access to a wealth of new material including exclusive interviews, Clark draws on his own experience as an early advisor to Alibaba and two decades in China chronicling the Internet's impact on the country to create an authoritative, compelling narrative account of Alibaba's rise.
作者邓肯·克拉克在1999年第一次会见马云，地点就在他当年创建阿里巴巴的狭小房间里。克拉克根据早年自身在阿里巴巴任职顾问的经历，结合在中国20年梳理互联网对该国影响的工作经验，在授权得到前所未有的大量资料后（包括独家采访），创造出这样一本权威、令人惊叹的阿里巴巴崛起史。

How did Jack overcome his humble origins and early failures to achieve massive success with Alibaba? How did he outsmart rival entrepreneurs from China and Silicon Valley? Can Alibaba maintain its 80% market share? As it forges ahead into finance and entertainment, are there limits to Alibaba's ambitions? How does the Chinese government view its rise?  Will Alibaba expand further overseas, including in the U.S.?
马云如何克服他卑微的出身和早期的失败，使阿里巴巴获得巨大成功的？他如何击败中国和硅谷的竞争者？阿里巴巴能否保持其80%的市场占有率？在进军金融和娱乐版块后，有没有遭遇限制其野心的天花板？中国政府如何看待阿里巴巴的崛起？阿里巴巴会不会扩张到海外，到美国？ 

Clark tells Alibaba's tale in the context of China's momentous economic and social changes, illuminating an unlikely corporate titan as never before.
在中国重大的经济和社会变革背景下，克拉克为你讲述阿里巴巴的传说，诠释一个空前的如梦如幻的企业巨头。