B | Prose

Ballard, J.G.

Empire of the Sun

Wars came early to Shanghai, overtaking each other like the tides that raced up the Yangtze and returned to this gaudy city all the coffins cast adrift from the funeral piers of the Chinese Bund.

The Kindness of Women

Every afternoon in Shanghai during the summer of 1937 I rode down to the Bund to see if the war had begun.

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B | Prose