Guest:

Kaiser Kuo

Kaiser Kuo is director of international communications for Baidu Inc., China’s leading search engine. He is perhaps best known as a writer, rock musician, and commentator on technology, society, and politics. Previously he served as consultant at Youku.com, China’s largest Internet video site, as director of digital strategy, China, for Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, and as China bureau chief for Silicon Valley-based technology business magazine Red Herring.

A 15-year resident of Beijing, he was co-founder of China’s first and most successful heavy metal band, Tang Dynasty, and remains active in the Chinese music scene as lead guitarist of the Mandarin metal band Chunqiu (Spring & Autumn). Kaiser hosts the popular Sinica Podcast, a weekly discussion of current affairs in China featuring leading journalists, bloggers, and academics. He is a frequent guest on China Central Television’s premier English-language news talk show, Dialogue, and is a frequent keynote speaker on topics related to the Chinese Internet. His monthly column in Beijing’s premiere English-language magazine, The Beijinger, has run for over nine years, and an anthology of columns titled Ich Bin Ein Beijinger was published in June 2009. He was named one of the global top 100 Twitter users by Foreign Policy magazine. Kaiser received a BA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley (1988), and an MA in East Asian Studies from the University of Arizona (1992). He lives in Beijing with his wife and two young children.

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