Standard Deviations
Growing Up and Coming Down in the New Asia
“I was twenty-three and I had set off for Asia to become a writer, intrigued by lurid tales of booms, busts, drugs, sex, violence, magic. There was a wicked sorcery in Asia, in the economic profligacy of the early nineties, in the way financiers and businessmen took a rapidly wiring and developing continent and looted billions, like a titanic parlor trick converting all that wealth into abandoned office complexes and half-completed shopping malls. . . . I wanted it all—the money, the sex, the drugs. And to this day I believe that if I am honest with myself, despite all I have learned the hard way over the past decade, I would still want it all again, the fucking…
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July 2, 2002Karl Taro Greenfeld is the editor of Time Asia and author of Speed Tribes: Days and Nights with Japan’s Next Generation. A former correspondent for The Nation and writer for Time, he has also contributed articles to GQ, Outside, Vogue, Condé Nast Traveler, The New York Times Magazine and other publications. He lives in Hong Kong with his wife and two daughters.