Publisher's Synopsis
In the last 20 years, tremendous breakthroughs in technology remade the US economy. In the process, Americans witnessed the rise of a generation of business titans, named Gates, Jobs, Grove and Clark. In this breathtaking narrative, Sheff brings us inside a similar revolution in China - one of the world's most rapidly industrializing economies. Behind the transformation of China are entrepreneurs who are transforming the largest nation in the world. Profiling remarkable players like Bo Feng - a leading venture capitalist who has backed some of the most successful Chinese technology powerhouses, and Edward Tian - a business and cultural hero who left his own startup on the eve of its IPO to lead China's campaign to bring broadband to the entire nation, CHINA DAWN is the story of a business revolution. It is also the story of the social and political revolution the government of China tried to resist even as it encouraged business innovation. Tempted by the promise of growth, the government waged a simultaneous - and losing battle against the Internet's free flow of ideas.
