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...Wasserstrom's China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know will be published in April by Oxford University Press...
...Read "China at 60: The Road to Prosperity...
Even before jan. 12, 2010, life was pretty good for Robin Li. The soft-spoken 41-year-old is the co-founder and chief executive of Baidu.com, the dominant search engine in China, the country with the most Internet users in the world. His stake in the company - started in 1999, five years after getting his M.S. from SUNY Buffalo in 1994 - is worth about $2.8 billion now. That makes him the seventh richest man in China, according to the annual rankings in Forbes magazine. Though he's been a computer geek since his undergraduate days at Peking University...
...whose stories he tells with his characteristic blend of empathy, insight and self-deprecating humor. Yet I never doubt for a second that he's writing about the richly hued and socially variegated country that I know, as opposed to one of the imaginary lands conjured up in Big China Books...
...then came Jan. 12, and for Li and Baidu, things went from the sublime to the ridiculous. That's the day Google drew its now famous line in the sand, saying it was no longer willing to censor its Internet searches in China - as the authoritarian government demands - given what it believes have been repeated attempts by Chinese authorities to hack its systems and steal dissidents' Gmail addresses. However noble Google's sentiment may be, in business terms it was "effectively a suicide note" when it came to the search business, as one rival Internet executive put it. "Google...