Worship and state ambivalence after Jack Ma

What's China's tech culture really like? Are there billionaire tech founders? Are they worshipped like they are in the US? What inspires Chinese tech entrepreneurs?

00:00 Intro to Afra Wang

00:33 What is Chinese tech culture?

09:04 China's 4 tech generations

20:25 China's tech founders and the government

25:42 China's tech canon

44:12 Chinese sci-fi and tech culture

50:43 Chinese ideas of industrial power

Links:

- Concurrent newsletter

- Afra's professional website

- Wired: You've Never Heard of China's Greatest Sci-Fi Novel

- Asterisk: The China Tech Canon

- Afra on Twitter / X

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