"It's time to face the facts: China is catching up to the United States as a global leader of technology - and, within a few years, may surpass every nation in the world. By modeling their new techno-based companies on successful American ones like Google and Yahoo!, a new breed of entrepreneur is leading China through a second Industrial Revolution." "Financial journalist Rebecca A. Fannin traveled from Shanghai to Beijing and beyond to speak face-to-face with China's hottest up-and-comers. For some of these young entrepreneurs, it's their first interview with the Western press and their first chance to introduce their companies before the stocks hit Nasdaq." "You'll meet smart and savvy self-starters like Robin Li, who made his company, Baidu, in the image of Google. You'll meet inventors and innovators like Liu Yingkui, who developed software for selling goods over cell phones rather than PCS.You'll also meet the American venture capitalists who are searching for deals every day in every comer of China."--BOOK JACKET. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

In her brisk and flattering analysis of China's charge into the high-tech market, Fannin spotlights 12 Eastern technopreneurs who are giving Silicon Valley mainstays a run for their money. Identifying her profile subjects the next Thomas Edison or the next Rupert Murdoch, and their companies as MySpace China and the like, the former Red Herring news editor supports her observational thesis with data and anecdotes from a variety of Western and Eastern CEOs, professors and financial analysts. Drawing parallels between the Middle Kingdom's growth and the height of the dot-com bubble, Fannin also takes care to note that most of her China-born sea turtles' were educated in the West, but returned to their homeland to take advantage of growing markets there. If anything, her writing overly praises Chinese entrepreneurships' reach in the world, choosing to gloss over negative statistics and paying controversial social issues such as censorship of China's Internet sites mere lip service. Overall, Fannin is best at tracing her subject's mostly humble beginnings through Mao's Cultural Revolution to the self-made Internet era as the tech world searches for the next Bill Gates. Given the sheer number of Chinese expected to be alive in the next decade, new media moguls (and profitable IPOs) are inevitable. (Feb.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From: Reed Elsevier Inc. Copyright Reed Business Information

Introduction	XI
Part 1 The Copycats
Chapter 1 Baidu-China's Boldest Internet Start-Up	3
Chapter 2 Alibaba-The Wizardry of Jack Ma	19
Chapter 3 Dangdang.com-The Amazon Plus of China	33
Chapter 4 Chinacars.com-Cruisin' with Style	45
Chapter 5 Oak Pacific Interactive-Web 2.0 on Steroids	57
Chapter 6 Bokee.com-Growing Pains	71
Part 2 The Venture Capitalists
Chapter 7 Silicon Valley's Tech Route to China	85
Part 3 The Innovators
Chapter 8 Lingtu-China's Navigator	101
Chapter 9 Oriental Wisdom-Confucian Capitalism	113
Chapter 10 Pingco-Ping Me, Please	123
Chapter 11 Maxthon-The Way China Surfs the World	133
Chapter 12 LatticePower Corporation-China Lights Up the Globe	143
Endnotes	153
Acknowledgments	167
Index	171

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