On a Bright September afternoon, a black Mercedes S320 pulls up to a curb in the middle of Beijing's bustling Zhongguancun, the consumer-electronics shopping district. Out steps a man in a conservative gray suit, with ink-black hair, a round face, and wire-rim glasses. He still has the same youthful appearance he had 18 years earlier when, as a shy, bean-thin science student, he first arrived in this neighborhood. Then called Swindler's Alley, the area was a disreputable bazaar for knockoffs and black-market software. Now all that has been replaced by neon, steel, and glass.
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