{"id":29635,"date":"2016-09-01T19:02:52","date_gmt":"2016-09-02T02:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-west-and-the-new-tech-savvy-china"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:18:31","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:18:31","slug":"the-west-and-the-new-tech-savvy-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/the-west-and-the-new-tech-savvy-china","title":{"rendered":"The West and the New, Tech-Savvy China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-west-and-the-new-tech-savvy-china.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Luv the Kuo.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<em>This interview was previously published on the<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youngchinawatchers.com\/voices-on-china-kaiser-kuo-co-host-of-the-sinica-podcast\/\"> Young China Watchers\u2019 blog<\/a> and is reprinted here with kind permission. Young China Watchers is a global network of China-focused young professionals across nine chapter cities, engaging with the most pressing issues emerging from China today.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Kaiser Kuo is the co-host of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/sinica.supchina.com\/\">Sinica Podcast<\/a> and the former director of international communications for <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.baidu.com\/\">Baidu<\/a>. He was previously a technology reporter in China and Oglivy &amp; Mather\u2019s director of digital strategy in Beijing. Kaiser is also considered the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theworldofchinese.com\/2011\/01\/30-years-of-heavy-metal\/\">godfather of heavy metal music<\/a> in China and founded the rock band Tang Dynasty. Recently, he spoke with Young China Watchers\u2019 Jordyn Dahl about China\u2019s tech scene and bridging the gap between China and the West.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Young China Watchers<\/em>: Between Tang Dynasty, Ogilivy &amp; Mather, Baidu, and, of course, the Sinica Podcast, you\u2019ve dipped your fingers into so many things during your time in China. On the whole, would you say that your contributions have brought the West to China or China to the West?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2016\/09\/the-west-and-the-new-tech-savvy-china\/\">http:\/\/thediplomat.com\/2016\/09\/the-west-and-the-new-tech-savvy-china\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luv the Kuo. This interview was previously published on the Young China Watchers\u2019 blog and is reprinted here with kind permission. Young China Watchers is a global network of China-focused young professionals across nine chapter cities, engaging with the most pressing issues emerging from China today. Kaiser Kuo is the co-host of the Sinica Podcast [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29635","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29635"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66349,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29635\/revisions\/66349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}