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Early in 1998, William Ding, then 26, took a bet on his future. After four years of writing software in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, he had saved $60,000--enough to pay for him to study at Stanford. China's Internet was then in its infancy, with fewer than 1 million users. But he sensed it was about to explode, and decided to stay in China and set up his own Internet company, Netease.com...
...auctions and a job site, it claims to have upwards of 6 million page views a day. Netease.com and Sohu.com a portal run by Charles Zhang, are vying to be the first Chinese Internet companies to list on the NASDAQ. The payoff will be crazy, 10-digit money. But Ding still has to deal with the China Uncertainty Principle: bureaucrats in Beijing, whose treatment of the Internet is even more erratic than the movement of the markets...
...second largest population of Web surfers in the world, after the U.S., by 2005. Such a frenetic buildup would delight most governments. It terrifies Beijing's officials, who fear the Net will vaporize their power over the masses. "It is not like anything they have ever experienced before," says Ding...
...anyone who challenges them belongs in a labor camp for 10 years. On the other side are the tech-savvy Net entrepreneurs, who expect anyone who challenges them to set up his own website within the next 10 minutes. The outcome of the conflict will not just determine whether Ding or Zhang becomes a billionaire. Dotcoms highlight the central contradiction of China today--the drive to modernize without giving up one-party rule. The government wants the economic benefits of the Internet without the freedom it gives. The information revolution, minus the revolution...
After a report on endostatin was published in the science journal Cell in January 1997, the protein's crystal structure was described in the fall of 1998 by Loeb Professor of Biochemistry and Biophysics Donald C. Wiley and associate Wuan-Hua Ding in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. Clinical trials with human patients are slated to begin at Dana-Farber, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital in just a few months...