Synopsis: Within the great firewall of China, Clay Shirky, associate professor from interactive media & arts department in NYU Shanghai and also TED speaker, jo

Synopsis: Within the great firewall of China, Clay Shirky, associate professor from interactive media & arts department in NYU Shanghai and also TED speaker, joined us to discuss his latest book “Little Rice – Xiaomi, Smartphones & the Chinese Dream”. In this episode, he shared his thoughts about the revolution of different media platforms and its after-effects to the evolution of Chinese companies from hardware manufacturing to software services and how the continued tension between economic development and political control will change the nature of Chinese companies going global. We also discussed how Xiaomi embodies “the Chinese Dream” and the challenges that it will face in expanding globally to the world.