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The China Tech Canon—Asterisk

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How does the *paideía* of the Chinese tech elite differ from their counterparts in Silicon Valley?

The China Tech Canon—Asterisk How does the *paideía* of the Chinese tech elite differ from their counterparts in Silicon Valley? “That was a book from the 1980s — crudely printed, roughly translated by today's standards — but I was absolutely electrified. I stayed awake for days and nights in university reading it, dreaming even then of building a world-class company.” In 1987, Lei Jun 雷军 was a 21-year-old student in Wuhan University’s computer science program. The book that had set his imagination alight was Fire in the Valley 硅谷之火 , which chronicles the evolution of 1970s homebrew hacker cul

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