06
May
There is a radical difference, however, between my Shanghai sojourns and Gibson’s Tokyo ones: we began going to the Asian cities that fascinate us most about the same time, but when I made my first trips to Shanghai, it was like moving into the past. It has only been on recent visits that I feel as if the things I’m seeing offer a window onto the future.
In Chinese Characters co-editor Jeffrey Wasserstrom on Willima Gibson’s Distrust that Particular Flavor for the Los Angeles Review of Books: The Future Is A Different Country
