Attended Quote by Charles K. Kao

I grew up in Shanghai, a big urban city.

— Jenova Chen

I grew up in a Chinese American enclave where the person who lived down the street had literally lived down the street from my…

— Jenny Zhang

There are two types of Chinese growing up in America. One is the kind that does really well in school, with thick, thick glasses.…

— Donnie Yen

I was a pretty free-spirited kid. I was part of a notorious group of troublemakers who didn't do well in school but had a…

— Chloe Zhao

To my child's eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to…

— J. G. Ballard

When I first moved from Shanghai when I was five, I just thought of myself as Chinese.

— Jenny Zhang

I remembered that my grandfather had spent his teenage years in Shanghai and that he went back after he finished medical school to work…

— Kevin Kwan

“Seeing them today… was this still that renowned Qing Jing Peak which produced countless youths full of pretentious literary airs? This whole place was…

— Anonymous

You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did you know…

— Patricia Marx

I certainly gained a lot by reading about Shanghai.

— Ralph Fiennes

In December of 1990, just before my eighth birthday, I left China for the United States. My father was a political dissident, and after…

— Leana S. Wen

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on…

— Kirby Wright