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...attention of Beijing economic planners eager to set up a local VC firm to jump-start the country's technology sector, and in 1999--with $5 million in state investment and a board of directors made up of senior government ministers--NewMargin entered the market as an odd hybrid of old-school state planning and free-market hustle. It now counts telecom giants like Motorola and Alcatel among its investors and this year, according to Feng, will triple its investment capital...
Feng, 37, is a bit of an odd hybrid himself. He grew up in Shanghai, studying the traditional art of calligraphy, while his parents lived in Beijing, where his father served as a high-ranking communist cadre. After attending the prestigious Harbin Institute of Technology (he majored in "the automatic control of intercontinental missiles"), Feng moved to Canada, eventually earning a Ph.D. in math from the University of Toronto. His first business venture back in China, which made him a millionaire at 26, created joint ventures in gold and diamond mining and then sold them through a deal with multibillionaire...
...lines in which brown-skinned superheroes battle figures from Indian myths in places like Calcutta. Kapur says he sold Chopra on the idea by telling him "that in five years we will notice a cultural change in the world, where Western pop culture will start to stagnate and a hybrid form of culture that is more Eastern in nature will begin to take center stage...
...subject of pop music, Rybeck noted an increasing trend of pop-theater hybrid shows à la Mamma Mia or Movin’ Out, counseling students to become savvy in this new crossover style. Prince insisted that such changes were only evolutions in a perennially relevant art form, saying that musical theater was still “part of our American heritage...
...Theater songs take the character from one emotional place to another,” she explained, as opposed to their more emotionally static pop counterparts. “A pop lyric is not written to be acted.” But with the birth of hybrid musicals attempting just that, Rybeck rejoined, “a new technique is being born right now on Broadway...