Hacker News with Generative AI: Shanghai

Shanghai Before the Foreigners (jaapgrolleman.com)
Open any history book or article about Shanghai and you’ll probably read something condescending along the lines of “Shanghai was a backwater fishing village until the foreigners came in the 19th century.”
JG Ballard's Apocalyptic Art (newstatesman.com)
“It took me 20 years to forget, and 20 years to remember.” JG Ballard’s comment on his life in wartime Shanghai is the key to the novel he wrote on the subject, and to all the visionary writer’s work.
Shanghai's Automotive Metamorphosis (arun.is)
Exodus of US law firms from Shanghai accelerates (ft.com)