The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Looking back, it puzzles me that my parents decided to stay in Shanghai when they must have known that war was imminent.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar world with… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I had a very mixed kind of childhood reading. I read the childhood classics like 'Robinson Crusoe,' 'Alice in Wonderland,' 'Chums Annual.'… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Science and technology multiply around us. To an increasing extent they dictate the languages in which we speak and think. Either we use those… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
There are some people, who place enormous value on their home and feel that it defines them, that a stain on the carpet is… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
A reality that is electronic... Once everybody's got a computer terminal in their home, to satisfy all their needs, all the domestic needs, there'll… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You unsettle people much more… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I made a very slatternly mother, notably unkeen on housework, unaware that homes need to be cleaned now and then, and too often to… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I was in Shanghai when the Japanese invaded China. I was there in Shanghai when, the morning after Pearl Harbor, they seized Shanghai. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will helpthe inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Perhaps the future belongs to magic, and it's we women who control magic. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I work for three or four hours a day, in the late morning and early afternoon. Then I go out for a walk and… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Even one's own home is a kind of anthology of advertisers, manufacturers, motifs and presentation techniques. There's nothing 'natural' about one's home these days.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
