Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream

By Clay Shirky

Categories: Business & Money, Computers & Technology

Little Rice: Smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese Dream (2015) is a short book by Clay Shirky. Shirky examines the rise of Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi and what its success says about China's economy, technology culture and political ambitions. He treats the company as a window onto how Chinese firms innovate under state and market pressure in a huge domestic market.

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• Fareed Zakaria: “This week's Book of the Week is "Little Rice: Smartphones Xiaomi and the Chinese Dream" by Claire Sharkey. My guess is most of you don't know the world's third largest cell phone company after Apple and Samsung. It is Xiaomi, China's largest phone maker. Claire Sharkey, one of the smartest people writing on technology spent a year in Shanghai asking whether Xiaomi's rise tells us that China can innovate. This is must reading for anyone interested in the future of technology, or business, or China, which is sort of all of us.”