As a seven-year-old, Michael Mai would sit outside his father's office in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen breathing second-hand cigarette smoke and chatting with those waiting for an appointment.
It was 1991 and the first "red capitalists" were starting to emerge from the carnage of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. And in Shenzhen few were more prominent than Mai's father, Mai Boliang.
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Angus Grigg is an investigative reporter based in Sydney. He has worked as a foreign correpondent in China and Indonesia, and has won two Walkley Awards. Connect with Angus on Twitter. Email Angus at agrigg@afr.com
