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Bokee.com—Growing Pains
Free speech crusader Fang Xingdong coined the Chinese term for blogging and set
up China’s first blog service, but he got booted as CEO, and his site may not survive.

PART TWO

The Venture Capitalists
Chapter Seven - 85
Silicon Valley’s Tech Route to China
Leading American venture capitalists are searching for deals and the next new thing
in Beijing, Shanghai, Hangzhou, and beyond. But will the rush yield poor returns?

PART THREE
The Innovators
The next five profiles of Chinese tech entrepreneurs show the rise of China as an
innovator, not just a copier of American ideas.

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Lingtu—China’s Navigator
This local team put maps of the Three Gorges dam, the Olympics site, and
Mount Everest on mobile phones, in cars, on CDs, and on the Web, but it turned
outside for a CEO.

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Oriental Wisdom—Confucian Capitalism
First-time entrepreneur Liu Yingkui has invented software for selling financial goods
over cell phones, not PCs. Now he needs to get to the next level.

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Pingco—Ping Me, Please
Move over Skype. Here comes PingCo and short text messages by mobile phone for
free. It’s a technology that could go global, if China Mobile doesn’t kill it.

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Maxthon—The Way China Surfs the World
Jeff Chen has signed up more than 100 million users for his innovative Web browser
Maxthon, attracted Google as an investor, and has Microsoft on the alert.

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