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Dai Xiuli

Chinese businesswoman

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ122045313 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dai Xiuli (Chinese: 戴秀丽 / 秀丽·霍肯) is a Chinese businesswoman. She is the minority owner of Reading.

Career

In 2021, Dai became minority owner of English side Reading.

Editorial summary

“Dai Xiuli” enters the record as chinese businesswoman. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Xiuli, Chinese and businesswoman can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Xiuli, Chinese and businesswoman.
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Why this record matters

“Dai Xiuli” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Xiuli, Chinese and businesswoman provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q122045313. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2021.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dai Xiuli” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.