http://cityoftongues.com/2009/03/01/phantom-shanghai/ Tue, 22 May 2012 10:21:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://cityoftongues.com/2009/03/01/phantom-shanghai/#comment-4023 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:36:16 +0000 http://cityoftongues.com/?p=484#comment-4023 it cosmic horrors me how many Americans are comfortable saying shit like “I’ve got no interest in the far East.” it’s like, yup, western Europe is totally more recognizable. do you leave your home to see recognizable things? the past, they said, is now truly like a foreign country: they do things exactly the same there. I didn’t like the months I spent in China, but the concept that they weren’t immensely valuable and warping in my development as a human being is laughable. everybody should go to Shanghai. everybody should go to Shanghai once every five years. while they still can.

]]> http://cityoftongues.com/2009/03/01/phantom-shanghai/#comment-3941 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 02:10:15 +0000 http://cityoftongues.com/?p=484#comment-3941 [...] sessions at Melbourne Writers’ Festival. I’ve seen Paul (who I got to know during my time in Shanghai in 2005) on panels before, and he’s just compulsively interesting, not just about the China of the [...]

]]> http://cityoftongues.com/2009/03/01/phantom-shanghai/#comment-3902 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 11:34:16 +0000 http://cityoftongues.com/?p=484#comment-3902 Those photos are beautiful.

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