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Re: Startup School Beijing

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Post by seanmcdirmid »

baby wrote: post #190
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #185

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I spent almost 10 years in Beijing (2007-2016), and it seemed like everyone knew everyone. I was off a bit, there are 500,000 foreigners in Tokyo, compared to around 600,000 foreigners in China: http://www.china-briefing.com/news/2015/01/08/nali-lai-de-ov... https://japantoday.com/category/features/kuchikomi/increase-... Japan has twice as many foreigners as China does, with many of them concentrated in the Tokyo reg…

Wow, that's a long time, I was there during your time so we might have met. It's true that everyone seemed to know everyone :) I guess I was just surrounded by this expat community hence why I felt like it was so big. Weird question but did you know TUN bar? Last time I was in BJ it was closed and I was really sad about it :(

Bars come and go in Beijing, I stopped keeping up with it once I got married :).

Re: Startup School Beijing

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Post by vorg »

mirgj wrote: post #63
seanmcdirmid wrote: post #56

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Shenzhen is the tech place to be in China. But if you want to make the government happy, you got to be near them in Beijing, so a lot of tech happens there also.

Is true, but Shenzhen is culturally very different from Beijing and so is Shanghai. Shenzhen is a new city and tech stuff are there because of the influence of Guangzhou as production hub and HK as facilitator for access to the west. Beijing is more, let me say it, artistic. Is much more vibrant, culturally, than any other city in China. This kind of mix that you can find in New Work, Berlin or London also it brings…

Mobike being founded by an ex-journalist is an argument against your point, not for it. Journalism work in China isn't artistic, rather it revolves around finding things to say that keeps the govt happy.
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