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...Chang, once a long-serving executive at Texas Instruments in the U.S., was lured to Taiwan by the government as part of its effort to develop a high-tech industry. He was hired to manage a state-funded research institute, but shortly after his arrival, an influential technocrat, Li Kuo-ting, called Chang to his office and told him: "Think about how you want to start a company." The conversation led Chang, backed by state funding, to found Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC), now the world's largest chip foundry and one of Taiwan's most prominent firms. That...
...anything surprises me, it's that it took them so long.' KAISER KUO, a Beijing-based blogger, on the Chinese government's blocking access to websites like Twitter two days before the 20th anniversary of the bloody crackdown on demonstrators in Tiananmen Square...
...live here, it is the metamorphosis of the city's "software," as it hurtles toward becoming one of the globe's great cities, that is really striking. "It is a horrible place to live, but I wouldn't be anywhere else on the planet" is how Kaiser Kuo, a Chinese-American rock star turned digital guru, describes Beijing today. "You get addicted to the excitement, speed and change. There's nowhere else like...
...there is any one group that is the driving force behind the metamorphosis of Beijing, it is outsiders like Kuo. Be they born somewhere else in China or half a world away, a flood of migrants has peacefully occupied the capital in recent years, drawn to Beijing to seek fame and fortune or simply out of a burning desire to watch history unfold. The city I first visited--where the lights were out by 9 p.m. and creativity was a dirty word--is gone...
After stints as an associate on Wall Street and a professor in Taiwan, Ma worked first as an English translator to then-president Chiang Ching-kuo. Later, at age 38, he became the youngest member of the cabinet when he was appointed as the chair of the Research, Development, and Evaluation Commission. He then served as the Justice Minister from 1993 to 1996, as the Mayor of Taipei from 1998 to 2006, and Chairman of Kuomintang from 2005 to 2007, before being elected Taiwan’s president...