Kaiser Kuo
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Early life and education
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Career
Kuo was a technology correspondent for Red Herring magazine,Script error: No such module "Unsubst". and also worked as director of digital strategy, China, for Ogilvy & Mather in Beijing.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
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In 2010, Kuo started a current affairs podcast based in Beijing named Sinica that invites prominent China journalists and China-watchers to participate in uncensoredTemplate:According to whom discussions about Chinese political and economic affairs.[6] Guests and co-hosts have included Gady Epstein, Mary Kay Magistad of Public Radio International, Tania Branigan of The Guardian, Evan Osnos of The New Yorker, Arthur Kroeber of Dragonomics, Jeremy Goldkorn of Danwei and Bill Bishop, founder of CBS MarketWatch. Sinica was recorded at the Popup Chinese studios in Beijing from 2010 to 2016.
In April 2016, Kuo announced that the Sinica Podcast was acquired by an unnamed New York startup and that he would return to the United States with his family to focus full-time on Sinica. Kuo wasScript error: No such module "Unsubst". editor-at-large at the digital media company SupChina.[7] Kuo and Goldkorn co-hosted the podcast until its sponsor, The China Project (formerly SupChina), announced in November 2023 that it was shutting down operations due to a lack of funding[8][9]
As of 2025, he is a speaker for the China Speakers Bureau.[10]
Personal life
In 1989 Kuo was a founding member of the Chinese rock band Tang Dynasty. He returned to the US "shortly " after that.[3] and later formed another Chinese heavy metal rock group, Spring and Autumn (Template:Zh). Kuo's musical involvement also involved playing bass for Dirty Deeds, an AC/DC cover band based in Beijing.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". As of 2008 he was living in the US.[3] In 2016 he lived in China and "returned" to the US.[3]
See also
References
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External links
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