Shanghai Quotes

40 Shanghai quotes by 30 unique authors

While Google no longer has a search engine operation inside China, it has maintained a large presence in Beijing and Shanghai focused on research and… — Rebecca MacKinnon
The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other big Asian cities,… — Rebecca MacKinnon
I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come from places just… — J. G. Ballard
The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that no amount of… — J. G. Ballard
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying, and sometimes I… — J. G. Ballard
During the 1960s, the Shanghai of my childhood seemed a portent of the media cities of the future, dominated by advertising and mass circulation newspapers… — J. G. Ballard
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
In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in… — J. G. Ballard
In March 1943, my parents, four-year-old sister and I were interned with other foreign civilians at Lunghua camp, a former teacher training college outside Shanghai,… — J. G. Ballard
At the school I attended, the clergyman who ran the cathedral school in Shanghai would give lines to the boys as a punishment. They expected… — J. G. Ballard
I was in Shanghai recently, where Twitter is blocked, and yet there were ads and billboards across town with hashtags on them. — Dick Costolo
Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day! — Zhang Jindong
The explosive growth in places like Shanghai has helped lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty and into a thriving new middle class.… — Gary Locke
The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global stage. But while… — Ai Weiwei
Today we're dealing with metropolitan Shanghai, metropolitan New Delhi or Paris. If we're competing at that level, our diversity, that richness of people coming from… — John Hickenlooper

Who Wrote These Shanghai Quotes

30 authors contributed a total of 40 Shanghai Quotes, led by these top contributors: