Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race, Rebecca

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Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race, Rebecca A. Fannin, genre: anden kategori

Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race, Rebecca A. Fannin, genre: anden kategori

Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race, Rebecca A. Fannin, genre: anden kategori
Sprog: Engelsk
ISBN: 9780071494472
Forlag: McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Indbinding: Hardback
Sideantal: 300
Udgivet: 1. januar 2008
Udgave: ed
Størrelse: 231x155x21 mm.
Vægt: 450 g.

If you survey the history of the rise of the internet companies in China, you will find very few books talking about them. Of course, it has mostly gotten to do with the language, and these companies are relatively unknown outside China. From the US side, many books have been written on the tech giants from the US. Even the web 2.0 founders are well documented in the book by Jessica Livingston in "Founders at Work". So, here we have a book "Silicon Dragon: How China is winning the Tech Race" written by Rebecca Fannin, a journalist who has been working in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Beijing. In this book, she interviewed 12 top chinese entrepreneurs and their investors, and give a brief overview on how the top Chinese internet companies are now rising to the challenge against their western counterparts. By the way, the author will be speaking in a talk entitled “Silicon Dragon” organized by E27 on 18 March 2008 in NUS (check the link for more details).
In this book, Fannin divided the book into three parts. She explored the rise of Chinese internet companies from the perspective of the entrepreneurs. She picked the six most successful companies which she labelled the copycats, i.e. there is a western counterpart to these companies doing exactly the same thing. In this group, she picked Baidu, Alibaba, Dangdang, Chinacars, Oak Pacific Interactive and Bokee. Of the six, I am more familiar with Baidu and Alibaba. She explored a bit more in depth about the founders. From the group, there are two groups of founders. Either these founders have spent their time in the US or they are made in China. She also descr