ADVISORY/Asia Society Northern California & the Commonwealth Club of California Announce Program: WIRED WARRIORS: China's New Technology Revolution.Business Editors ADVISORY... for Wednesday (March 20) --(BUSINESS WIRE)--HarperBusiness MEDIA ADVISORY: Program: WIRED WARRIORS: China's New Technology Revolution Wednesday, March 20, 2002 5:30 Registration -- 6:00 Program followed by reception The Commonwealth Club of California 595 Market Street, 2nd Floor, San Francisco $9 members/$12 non-members Panel discussion with: Bo Feng, Founder and Partner, Chengwei Ventures Eric Li, Founder and Partner, Chengwei Ventures David Sheff, Author of CHINA DAWN: A Story of a Technology and Business Revolution (HarperBusiness, March 2002) and Contributor to Wired, Playboy, Vanity Fair and Fortune Panelists will be available for brief interviews after the program. There is a new revolution in China, one that intends to unite the people of this vast and populous pop·u·lous adj. Containing many people or inhabitants; having a large population. [Middle English, from Latin popul nation as never before; both highways, roadways and the information superhighway, are being constructed simultaneously, leapfrogging Leapfrogging is a theory of development in which developing countries skip inferior, less efficient, more expensive or more polluting technologies and industries and move directly to more advanced ones. a rural economy into the modern-day information age. From the start, the rulers in Beijing have had a schizophrenic schiz·o·phren·ic adj. Of, relating to, or affected by schizophrenia. n. One who is affected with schizophrenia. attitude towards the Internet, wary of its ability to provide a forum for political discussion and dissent, yet mindful of the fact that the net is essential for the government's goals of modernization and globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation . Join David Sheff, author of the new book, China Dawn: A Story of a Technology and Business Revolution, for a discussion with some of the most important technology entrepreneurs and venture capitalists Venture Capitalist An investor who provides capital to either start-up ventures or support small companies who wish to expand but do not have access to public funding. Notes: Venture capitalists usually expect higher returns for the additional risks taken. in China. China Dawn, researched over three years, is the chronicle of the nascent nascent /nas·cent/ (nas´ent) (na´sent) 1. being born; just coming into existence. 2. just liberated from a chemical combination, and hence more reactive because uncombined. Chinese technology revolution - a movement with, Sheff says, "the immodest im·mod·est adj. 1. Lacking modesty. 2. a. Offending against sexual mores in conduct or appearance; indecent: a bathing suit considered immodest by the local people. b. goal of transforming the life of more than a fifth of the world's people."
To register for this event
contact: The Asia Society
415-421-8707
To set up an interview with David Sheff
contact: Kate Kazeniac
HarperBusiness
212-207-7603
kate.kazeniac@harpercollins.com
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