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Set against the frantic economic boom of 1990s Shanghai, small-time trader A Bao rises to become one of the city's most talked-about businessmen, navigating alliances and rivalries across the trading floors, restaurants and back rooms where the real deals get made. Directed with unusually cinematic flair for a TV drama, it's as much a portrait of a city transforming overnight as it is the story of one man's rise.