China Gate

China Gate is a 1983 crime fiction novel by William Arnold that tells the story of modern Taiwan as an epic Chinese-American gangster saga. It was acquired by editor-publisher Marc Jaffe of Ballantine Books for what at the time was one of the highest first-novel advances on record, and was the inaugural fiction offering of Random House’s new imprint, Villard Books. It was simultaneously published in the U.K. by Macdonald/Futura and Brazil by Editora Record.