Clay Shirky Little Rice : Smartphones, Xiaomi, & the Chinese Dream Paperback

Can the worlds biggest economy actually innovate? Clay Shirky explores China at a crossroads. Smartphones have to be made someplace, and that place is China. In just five years, a company named Xiaomi (which means "little rice" in Mandarin) has grown into the most valuable startup ever, becoming the third largest vendor of smartphones, behind only Samsung and Apple. China is now both the worlds largest producer and consumer of a little device that brings the entire globe to its users fingertips. How has this changed the Chinese people? How did Xiaomi conquer the worlds biggest market? Can the rise of Xiaomi help realize the Chinese Dream, Chinas bid to link personal success with national greatness?Clay Shirky, one of the most influential and original thinkers on the internets effects on society, spends a year in Shanghai chronicling Chinas attempt to become a tech originatorand what it means for the future course of globalization. | Clay Shirky Little Rice : Smartphones, Xiaomi, & the Chinese Dream Paperback