Anna Greenspan is an Assistant Professor at NYU Shanghai. She holds a doctorate in philosophy and cybernetic culture from the university of Warwick, UK. Her research focuses on the philosophy of time, urban Asia, and technological trends. Her most recent book is Shanghai Future: Modernity Remade (Hurst 2014). Anna is the co-founder of the Shanghai Studies Society and Hacked Matter. She also is working on a project to preserve Shanghai's street food.
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Last Updated: February 26, 2015
Sinica Podcast
02.02.15
Shanghai and the Future Now
from Sinica Podcast
Expats in Beijing may be partial to our rugged smogtropolis, but even the most diehard northerner will admit that Shanghai is the more romantic of the two cities, with its very name conjuring up images of 19th century opium dens, jazz bars in the...