Little Rice

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1. codinghorrorDec 2017
   Man I miss the hell out of Clay Shirky writing stuff on a blog. He barely even posts on Twitter. I guess he had the book about the Chinese smartphone company in 2015

   https://www.amazon.com/Little-Rice-Smartphones-Xiaomi-Chines...

   .. but nothing else of note? It's hard to tell what he's up to these days, but I sorely miss his blog writing.

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2. bleongcwOct 2015
   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.
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