Dan Wang

and then how they view themselves to be much more of an industrial civilization relative to the Americans, which they often denounce in their terms a fictitious economy or a bubble economy, not a financial bubble sense, but a bubble that pops very easily sense.

And I think there's various strands of Chinese science fiction that could also be really worth exploring too.

Shanghai is my favorite city in China.

Maybe my favorite city in the world.

Why?

Feels a lot like New York.

Both have been port cities with an industrial past that has significantly moved away from them.

Shanghai has a ton of Art Deco buildings because the time of its great boom in the 1920s and the 1930s was also...

a time when Art Deco really boomed.

There's a river that runs through both cities and there's a sense of hustle and ambition that one can see.

It is really comfortable and it's like a city, it's a little bit like New York if the French manage significant parts of it and they put in a lot of beautiful plane trees as well as cafes.

I think it's perhaps not the bleeding edge of technology as such, but I think Shanghai represents a bleeding edge of some element of consumption.

you can just order food really easily in shanghai most of the uber like dd taxis that you would get into almost all of them are electric there are parts of the city that are superbly well managed in terms of a lot of traffic flows you can always tell how much time a red light is going to be on and you can see this in the apps and

There's all sorts of ways in which the city is very well managed.

It has a subway system that doesn't screech with this metallic noise like in New York City.

And so as a place for consumption, Shanghai is really wonderful.

I would then hop on the high-speed rail from Shanghai to go to the city of Hefei in the province of Anhui, which is pretty close by.

Hefei is probably, let's say, two hours away by train from Shanghai.

Historically, Hefei has been significantly poorer.

It is much more mountainous.