1960s Zhongguancun, Beijing. A gang of young scientists toils into the night over the nation's first atomic bomb. They have no way of knowing that their work will go on to lay the foundation of China's enterprising tech sector, producing the likes of Lenovo, Baidu, ByteDance, and more.

With unprecedented access to the key figures behind the rise of Chinese tech giants, literary master, Ning Ken, delves into more than five decades of history and reveals the hidden triumphs and disasters that forged the "Silicon Valley of the East."

As China sits on the cusp of global leadership, these are the companies that will champion the material reality of the Asian Century. Based on years of extensive research, the author unveils the humanity that lies behind these products, the innovative leaders and managers that shaped them, and the divergent tomorrow that they are building.

Every future has a past...

About the Author
Ning Ken, born in Beijing in 1959, is a visiting professor at Beijing Second Foreign Language Institute. He was the executive deputy editor of October and is now a professional writer at the Lao She Literary Institute in Beijing. His major works include The Collected Works of Ning Ken (eight volumes) including the full-length novels Heaven-Tibet, The Masked City, Three Trios, The Ringed Mountain, and The Gate of Silence, the essay collections Beijing: The City and the Year, My Twentieth Century, and the non-fiction Zhong-guancun Notes. He has been nominated for the Lao She Literary Award, the first Shi Nai'an Literary Award, the seventh Lu Xun Literary Award, the 2014 Asia Weekly Top Ten Novels, the 2017 China Good Book Award, the first Hong Kong Dream of the Red Chamber Award, and the U.S. Newman Literary Award. His works have been translated into Czech, English, French, and Italian. James Trapp has published China-related books on language, astrology, science and technology. As well as new versions of the Art of War and Daodejing, his translations include Shadow of the Hunter and Longevity Park. Much of his work revolves around integrating the study of Chinese language and culture, and breaking down barriers of cultural misunderstanding that still persist.


Book Information
ISBN 9781838900205
Author Ning Ken
Format Hardback
Page Count 422
Imprint ACA Publishing Limited
Publisher ACA Publishing Limited