Shenzhen Everywhere

January 8, 2019 by An Xiao Mina

Excerpted from the MIT Technology Review’s Inside Shenzhen’s race to outdo Silicon Valley by An Xiao Mina and Jan Chipchase:

In much the same way that open-source software enables a global community of developers to copy and remix each other’s work, rapidly creating variants on a piece of software to meet different needs, the shanzhai method delivered “hardware…

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Fantasies of Shenzhen

May 25, 2017 by Jason Li

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Shenzhen: The Silicon Valley of hardware
By WIRED Video, 68 minutes, $0.00

Learning from Shenzhen: China’s Post-Mao Experiment from Special Zone to Model City
Edited by Mary Ann O’Donnell, Winnie Wong, and Jonathan Bach
University of Chicago Press, 283 pp., $35.00

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How the internet is making hardware startups as fast as software in Shenzhen

October 3, 2016 by An Xiao Mina

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Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from ‘Created’ in China: Shenzhen is making hardware like Silicon Valley makes apps, written by An Xiao Mina and originally published on Fusion.

China is amidst a massive transition from a country primarily of manufacturers to one of makers. Lei Gao is part of this new generation…

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