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{{Short description|Chinese American journalist and musician}}
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{{Infobox person
| name       = Kaiser Kuo
| image      = Kaiser Kuo at CHINICT.JPG
| caption    = Kaiser Kuo in 2008
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|03|06}}
| occupation = Writer, Musician
}}
'''Kaiser Kuo''' ({{zh|t=[[wikt:郭|郭]][[wikt:怡|怡]][[wikt:廣|廣]]|s=[[wikt:郭|郭]][[wikt:怡|怡]][[wikt:广|广]]|p=Guō Yíguǎng}}; born March 7, 1966) is a [[Chinese American]] freelance writer and [[Chinese rock|musician]].

==Early life and education==
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Kuo's grandfather, {{ill|Kuo Ting-yee|zh|郭廷以}}, was a historian of Chinese modern history who founded the Institute of Modern History at [[Academia Sinica]] in Taiwan<ref name="First Vote">{{cite web |url=https://www.firstvotefilm.com/ |title=First Vote |date=2020 |publisher=C35 Films}}</ref> and wrote the "Modern Chinese History" textbook.<ref>{{cite book |last=Guo |first=Ting-Yi |author-link= |date= 2015-01-01 |title=Modern Chinese History |location=Shanghai, China |publisher=Truth & Wisdom Press |isbn=978-7543224971}}.</ref> Kuo's brother is Jay Kuo, who wrote the musical, [[Allegiance (musical)|Allegiance]].
Kuo grew up in the US.<ref name="metal">{{Cite web |date=2008 |title=Interview: Kaiser Kuo (Chunqiu, Tang Dynasty) |url=https://www.deathmetal.org/interview/kaiser-kuo-chunqiu-tang-dynasty/ |access-date=2025-10-25 |website=www.deathmetal.org}}</ref>
Kuo has undescribed "degrees from UC Berkeley and the University of Arizona" per NYU Shanghai.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 22, 2025  |title=From Rock Star to Storyteller of AI: Kaiser Kuo on China vs. the U.S |url=https://engage.shanghai.nyu.edu/event/11652069 |access-date=2025-10-24 |website=NYU Shanghai}}</ref>

==Career==
Kuo was a technology correspondent for ''[[Red Herring (magazine)|Red Herring]]'' magazine,{{when|date=October 2025}} and also worked as director of digital strategy, China, for [[Ogilvy & Mather]] in Beijing.{{cn|date=October 2025}}

From 2001 to 2011 he wrote a column for the foreigner-focused English-language magazine ''[[The Beijinger]]''.<ref name="Ich Bin Ein Beijinger">{{cite web |url=http://www.thebeijinger.com/category/blog-authors/Kaiser-Kuo |title=Ich Bin Ein Beijinger |date=2011-12-26 |accessdate=2016-02-02 |publisher=True Run Media}}</ref>{{dead link|date=October 2025}}
He worked {{when|date=October 2025}} as director for international communications for Chinese search engine [[Baidu]].{{cn]}}

In 2010, Kuo started a current affairs podcast based in Beijing named Sinica that invites prominent China journalists and China-watchers to participate in uncensored{{according to whom|date=October 2025}} discussions about Chinese political and economic affairs.<ref name="Sinica Podcast">{{cite web |url=https://www.lostlaowai.com/blog/things-done-well/things-done-well-sinica-podcast/ |title=Things done well: Sinica Podcast |date=2013-05-24 |accessdate=2016-02-02}}</ref> 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 was{{when|date=October 2025}} editor-at-large at the digital media company [[SupChina]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://supchina.com/about-supchina/|title=About SupChina {{!}} Mission Statement {{!}} Staff|website=SupChina|language=en-US|access-date=2019-08-25}}</ref> 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<ref>{{Cite web |date=2023-11-07 |title=The China Project: Sino-US media company shuts down citing funding crisis |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/china/china-project-shut-down-funding-b2443019.html |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=The Independent |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Hale |first=Erin |title='The China Project' media shuts, blaming 'politically-motivated attacks' |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/7/the-china-project-media-shuts-blaming-politically-motivated-attacks |access-date=2023-12-16 |website=Al Jazeera |language=en}}</ref>

As of 2025, he is a speaker for the China Speakers Bureau.<ref>{{Cite web |date=June 25, 2025 |title=How the state, market and academia move AI in the same direction – Kaiser Kuo |url=https://www.china-speakers-bureau.com/2025/06/25/how-the-state-market-and-academia-move-all-in-the-same-direction-kaiser-kuo/ |access-date=2025-10-24 |website= China Speakers Bureau.  |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Personal life==
In 1989 Kuo was a founding member of the Chinese rock band [[Tang Dynasty (band)|Tang Dynasty]]. He returned to the US "shortly " after that.<ref name="metal" /> and later formed another Chinese heavy metal rock group, Spring and Autumn ({{zh|s=[[wikt:春|春]][[wikt:秋|秋]]}}). Kuo's musical involvement also involved playing bass for Dirty Deeds, an [[AC/DC]] [[cover band]] based in Beijing.{{cn|date=October 2025}}
As of 2008 he was living in the US.<ref name="metal" /> In 2016 he lived in China and "returned" to the US.<ref name="metal" />

==See also==
* [[Americans in China]]
* [[Chinese rock]]

==References==
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== External links ==
* [http://kaiserkuo.typepad.com/ Ich Bin Ein Beijinger] Kaiser Kuo's personal weblog{{dead link|date=October 2025}}

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