THE LONG READ: The fall of Xu Xiang - China's hedge-fund king

At 10:33 am on Sunday, November 1 of last year, the highway police in Ningbo, an industrial city on China’s eastern coast, posted a seemingly innocuous message to their official microblog.
He was China’s undisputedhedge-fund king – untilthe stock market bubble hehelped create took him downwith it, writes Alex W Palmer