Hommel: China at Work (Paper) Review

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Hommel: China at Work (Paper) ReviewHello Dover Publications: republish this! (or MIT Press).
China at Work: An illustrated Record of the Primitive Industries of China's Masses, Whose Life is Toil, and Thus an Account of Chinese Civilization. Originally 1937; 366pp; $3.95 [oh those incredible 1970s prices . . . ]
Pre-industrial Chinese tools. Photographs said to be sometimes fuzzy but always readable. Includes tool-making tools and descriptions of how to make and use all. Nothing was wasted, especially metal; stress on how to use recycled materials. Examples:
- Firewood cleaver with piece projecting at top which prevents the blade from striking ground, making chopping block unnecessary.
- Bellows with feathers used as gasket to seal piston. Pumps on both push and pull strokes, producing a nearly constant air output.Hommel: China at Work (Paper) Overview

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Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 2, History of Scientific Thought Review

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Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 2, History of Scientific Thought ReviewIt is very difficult to convey the great scope of this work. It has
been described as one of the l00 most significant works of non-fiction
of the 20th century. Only Arthur Waley, perhaps, had a greater role in
introducing the values and creative force of classical China to the west
than Joseph Needham. Needham, with a group of devoted scholars in the
Academica Sinica, labored over 40 years to produce this series, which
is without comparison in any european language. Not content with
superficial descriptions, at any stage, Needham uncovers the seminal
sources , at every juncture, to describe the birth and evolution
of this unique source of speculative, always empirical, yet spiritual
thought. One of it's greatest values is as a counter-point to the
growth of our own tradition, from its Greek sources through the
renaissance, and beyond. To give historical and cultural context,
Needham uses the seminal Greek sources, throughout, to show the
contrast as well as the originality of Chinese sources. The other
significant contribution, placing China within the context of world
cultures, is to explain the sources and development of China's own
empirical traditions and their growth into rigorous disciplines, and
their own concepts of time and cosmology.
Although this second volume does go into the development of
Taoism with considerable depth, it is not a great source for learning
the literary or artistic traditions of China. But as a guide to China's
emerging views of the natural world from astronomy to Chemistry,
Needham's work is without equal.Science and Civilisation in China, Vol. 2, History of Scientific Thought Overview

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Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race Review

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Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race ReviewEvery journalist dreams of writing a book and Silicon Dragon (McGraw- Hill, $24.95) is Rebecca Fannin's. She interviews a dozen of China's most successful entrepreneurs and builds a book around her profiles of their roads to success. These are some of China's movers and shakers in the high tech industry, especially in Internet and wireless communication sectors. All of them are well known inside China but most are relatively unknown to the West. By describing and analyzing the keys to their success, Fannin has provided some lessons learned that are useful to anyone contemplating doing business in China.
As readers go through the 150 pages of easy to read text, they find certain common themes. The first lesson is that a proven business model from the U.S. does not guarantee success in China. Whether it's Alibaba vs. eBay, Dangdang vs. Amazon or Baidu vs. Google, the local version has first mover advantage and can move quickly to localize the business model to ensure acceptance in China.
The established American competitors initially focused on their U.S. market and paid no attention to China. By the time they are ready for China, they attempt to leapfrog via acquisition of a local company. They then make the mistake of replacing the Chinese management team with culturally deaf and dumb managers from home or even move the headquarters back to the U.S. Thus they further handcuff themselves by removing the ability to react quickly to a fast changing market. The book offers many other gems on rules of conduct in China that readers will find useful.
Alas, the subtitle of this book: "How China is Winning the Tech Race" is unfortunately misleading. With the possible exception of the last chapter on possible technological breakthrough on light emitting diodes based on silicon, other chapters depict no threat of world leading edge, technical breakthroughs. Even the LED development with its vast potential to revolutionize the lighting of the world is at the pre-commercial stage. All the other chapters describe clever, hard working entrepreneurs that have basically improved upon something that already existed.
My personal view of where China will make a world leading edge, technology breakthrough is to look in life sciences and not in electronics. My reason is that China has been investing heavily in R&D. In such cases as stem cell therapy, researchers in China do not have the school of intelligent design as competitor for funding.
Regrettably, this book exhibits too much rush to publish and could have improved its quality with a bit of fact checking and editing. For example, the book says "China accounts for 24% of world production of semiconductors." This is not true. China accounts for 24% of consumption but barely produces one fifth of what they consume. Albert Yu is described as "now-retired programmer" at Intel. His actual last position was Senior Vice President in charge of Intel's microprocessor development. The two top foundries in Taiwan are identified as Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and United Microelectronics Corp. UMC is correct but the other, by far the largest and best known in the business is TSMC, where T stands for Taiwan.
Blemishes like those listed above, and there were others, are reasons why I deducted one star in my rating of otherwise an useful case study sort of business book.Silicon Dragon: How China Is Winning the Tech Race Overview

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Goliath Review

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Goliath ReviewThe book's ingram may seem like a cliche (A group of terrorists aboard a futuristic killer sub, yadda yadda yadda) but the story is anything but. It starts off with a rip-roaring assault on the U.S. Navy, with Goliath, the killer sub in question, sinking a Navy convoy! To add insult to injury, the assault's survivor designed Goliath herself! Things quickly heat up, as the U.S. goverment must trust Gunnar Wolfe, who's a traitor to America and target for everyone's dislike--including his ex-fiancee, the survivor. Bad gets to worse as the terrorists turn out to be lead by an old friend of Gunnar's, and the Goliath's A.I. supercomputer, Sorceress, starts to evolve and develop some wicked schemes of "her" own! Like I said, it all seems cliched, but once you're reading, you'll start to deny your former assessment. Steve Alten takes the killer sub/evil computer cliches and tosses them out the window with his ingenious writing. If you don't pick this up, then shame on you.Goliath Overview

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