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I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, Whoah! What's that? that I have with Japanese popular culture.

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William Gibson
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: March 17
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Conway
South Carolina
William Ford Gibson
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