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Spotlight: Sep 20, 2022

As a teen, Jamie Wong was a professional pop songwriter. Now she’s a HASTS PhD student studying venture capitalism in China. Whether learning about new music or a new culture, her approach is similar: Seek out the experts, then “try to play along and keep up.”

Sep 20, 2022

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