{"id":19,"date":"2006-05-13T08:18:55","date_gmt":"2006-05-13T16:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/migrator.rab.olt.ubc.ca\/jingliu\/2006\/05\/china-dawn\/"},"modified":"2011-03-21T12:53:02","modified_gmt":"2011-03-21T20:53:02","slug":"china-dawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/2006\/05\/13\/china-dawn\/","title":{"rendered":"China Dawn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I continue to read <em>China Dawn<\/em> , and learnt the history of Chinese IT industry that&#8217;s also the history made by &#8220;sea tuttles&#8221;. Feng Bo, a California bus boy a decade ago grew to a banker funding entrepreneus in his native China.Bo says, &#8220;If we don&#8217;t develop a vibrant IT economy, China will do little more than continue to make shoes for Nike.&#8221; In 1994, Bo, who headed back to China with a Robertson Stephens business card and not much more, began a search for entrepreneus working on promising technologies. He had heard about Wang Zhidong, the youthful founder of SRS, and Yan Yanchou, who wrote the first Chinese DOS.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bo searched them out at a decrepit school building set on a deserted street at the outskirts of Zhongguancun. To get in the school building, Bo climbed over the metal fence, pushed open a brittle door, and wondered through dimly lit hallways, crunching broken galss. &#8220;<\/em><br \/>\nWhat a humble start!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This weekend I continue to read China Dawn , and learnt the history of Chinese IT industry that&#8217;s also the history made by &#8220;sea tuttles&#8221;. Feng Bo, a California bus boy a decade ago grew to a banker funding entrepreneus in his native China.Bo says, &#8220;If we don&#8217;t develop a vibrant IT economy, China will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":377,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-readings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/377"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":856,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}