TY - BOOK ID - 135672798 TI - Little rice : smartphones, Xiaomi, and the Chinese dream PY - 2015 SN - 9780990976325 PB - New York Columbia Global Reports DB - UniCat KW - Economic forecasting KW - Internet KW - Business enterprises KW - Smartphones KW - Social aspects KW - Xiao mi ke ji (Beijing, China) KW - China KW - United States KW - Foreign economic relations UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135672798 AB - Smartphones have to be made someplace, and that place is China. In just five years, a company named Xiaomi (which means "little rice" in Mandarin) has grown into the most valuable startup ever, becoming the third largest vendor of smartphones, behind only Samsung and Apple. China is now both the world's largest producer and consumer of a little device that brings the entire globe to its user's fingertips. Clay Shirky delivers a compact update on China's evolving economic and political conditions. ER -