China Dawn 6 editions

E-book exclusive: David Sheff's "Address to the First Annual Chengwei Conference, 2000."China's dynamic entrepreneurs are using technology to radically transform business and cultural life in China. They are fighting not only outdated business models and a tumultuous economy but also an unpredictable government. In China Dawn, Wired's David Sheff takes readers into the hurly-burly of the Chinese technology revolution.Imagine living through the breakthrough moments of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and the other icons of today's new economy. The kind of technological revolution that they led in Silicon Valley is now sweeping through China, but with much more dramatic implications. The dynamic entrepreneurs who are using technology to radically transform business and cultural life in China are fighting not only outdated business models and a tumultuous economy but also an unpredictable government that has a love-hate relationship with the Net, at once pushing its expansion at a feverish pace and censoring it. As Duncan Clark, cofounder of BDA, an Internet consulting company in Beijing, told author David Sheff, "This environment -- the regulations, the competition, the political uncertainties -- makes these the fastest, most courageous, nimblest-thinking people globally. To deal with this level of risk and still sleep is no small accomplishment. But they're hooked on it like some Chinese are becoming hooked on Starbucks cappuccino."