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![John F. Kennedy](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1498639086i/3047._UX200_CR0,21,200,200_.jpg)
“The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity.”
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![Jodi Picoult](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1657141143i/7128._UX200_CR0,33,200,200_.jpg)
“If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.”
― Nineteen Minutes
― Nineteen Minutes
![Eric Hoffer](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1242077771i/9843._UY200_CR40,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The Jews are a peculiar people: Things permitted to other nations are forbidden to the Jews.
Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees.
But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.
Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.”
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Other nations drive out thousands, even millions of people, and there is no refugee problem. Russia did it. Poland and Czechoslovakia did it. Turkey threw out a million Greeks and Algeria a million Frenchmen. Indonesia threw out heaven knows how many Chinese--and no one says a word about refugees.
But in the case of Israel, the displaced Arabs have become eternal refugees. Everyone insists that Israel must take back every single Arab. Arnold Toynbee calls the displacement of the Arabs an atrocity greater than any committed by the Nazis. Other nations when victorious on the battlefield dictate peace terms. But when Israel is victorious it must sue for peace.
Everyone expects the Jews to be the only real Christians in this world.”
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![Karl Marx](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1523865402i/7084._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The bourgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all, even the most barbarian, nations into civilization. The cheap prices of its commodities are the heavy artillery with which it batters down all Chinese walls, with which it forces the barbarians' intensely obstinate hatred of foreigners to capitulate. It compels all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; it compels them to introduce what it calls civilization into their midst, i.e., to become bourgeois themselves. In one word, it creates a world after its own image.”
― The Communist Manifesto
― The Communist Manifesto
![Donald J. Trump](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1615483024i/676._UX200_CR0,25,200,200_.jpg)
“I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind.”
― The Art of the Deal
― The Art of the Deal
![Sun Tzu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1185211202i/1771._UX200_CR0,57,200,200_.jpg)
“Foreknowledge cannot be gotten from ghosts and spirits, cannot be had by analogy, cannot be found out by calculation. It must be obtained from people, people who know the conditions of the enemy.”
― The Art of War
― The Art of War
![Yangsze Choo](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1356674467i/6547911._UY200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“The Chinese considered the moon to be yin, feminine and full of negative energy, as opposed to the sun that was yang and exemplified masculinity. I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was at once elusive and filled with trickery, so that lost objects that had rolled into the crevices of a room were rarely found, and books read in its light seemed to contain all sorts of fanciful stories that were never there the next morning.”
― The Ghost Bride
― The Ghost Bride
![Amy Chua](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1679497243i/59966._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“The fact is that Chinese parents can do things that would seem unimaginable-even legally actionable-to Westerners. Chinese mothers can say to their daughters, "Hey fatty-lose some weight." By contrast, Western parents have to tiptoe around the issue, talking in terms of "health" and never ever mentioning the f-word, and their kids still end up in therapy for eating disorders and negative self image.”
― Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
― Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
“No wonder prostitution is so rampant in China, I mused as I watched the four girls watch us: why stand on your feet all day for slave wages when you can get rich on your back?”
― Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
― Unsavory Elements: Stories of Foreigners on the Loose in China
![Anthony Bourdain](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1274724018i/1124._UX200_CR0,50,200,200_.jpg)
“Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures.”
― A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
― A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines
![Kate McGahan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1655925569i/3924347._UX200_CR0,26,200,200_.jpg)
“We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The binding is painful at first but eventually you get used to it and the pain goes away. The saddest part of all is that by binding yourself to the choices you make, you forget that there was ever another way to live.”
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![Charles Yu](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1559679119i/221608._UY200_CR49,0,200,200_.jpg)
“......cut us off from our families, our history. So we made it our own place - Chinatown. A place for preservation and self-preservation; give them what they feel what's right, is safe; make it fit the idea of what is out there..Chinatown and indeed being chinese is and always has been, from the very beginning a construction,a performance of features, gestures, culture and exoticism, invention/reinvention of stylization.”
― Interior Chinatown
― Interior Chinatown
![Amy Chua](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1679497243i/59966._UX200_CR0,16,200,200_.jpg)
“Once when I was young-maybe more than once-when I was extremely disrespectful to my mother, my father angrily called me "garbage" in our native Hokkien dialect. It worked really well. I felt terrible and deeply ashamed of what I had done. But it didn't damage my self esteem or anything like that. I knew exactly how highly he thought of me. I didn't actually think I was worthless or feel like a piece of garbage.
As an adult, I once did the same thing to Sophie, calling her garbage in English when she acted extremely disrespectful toward me. When I mentioned I had done this at a dinner party, I was immediately ostracized. One guest named Marcy got so upset she broke down in tears and had to leave early. My friend Susan, the host, tried to rehabilitate me with the remaining guests.
"Oh dear, it's just a misunderstanding. Amy was speaking metaphorically-right, Amy? you didn't actually call Sophie 'garbage.'"
"Um, yes I did. But it's all in the context," I tried to explain. "It's a Chinese immigrant thing.”
― Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
As an adult, I once did the same thing to Sophie, calling her garbage in English when she acted extremely disrespectful toward me. When I mentioned I had done this at a dinner party, I was immediately ostracized. One guest named Marcy got so upset she broke down in tears and had to leave early. My friend Susan, the host, tried to rehabilitate me with the remaining guests.
"Oh dear, it's just a misunderstanding. Amy was speaking metaphorically-right, Amy? you didn't actually call Sophie 'garbage.'"
"Um, yes I did. But it's all in the context," I tried to explain. "It's a Chinese immigrant thing.”
― Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother
![Aaron Shepard](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1508044800i/24994._UX200_CR0,11,200,200_.jpg)
“The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god.
Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.”
― Lady White Snake: A Tale From Chinese Opera
Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.”
― Lady White Snake: A Tale From Chinese Opera
![Bai Juyi](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1344249567i/427579._UY200_CR58,0,200,200_.jpg)
“SONG OF SUNSET ON THE RIVER
A strip of water's spread in the setting sun,
Half the river's emerald, half is red.
I love the third night of the ninth month,
The dew is like pearl; the moon like a bow.”
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A strip of water's spread in the setting sun,
Half the river's emerald, half is red.
I love the third night of the ninth month,
The dew is like pearl; the moon like a bow.”
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![Jonathan D. Spence](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1233015265i/29444._UX200_CR0,52,200,200_.jpg)
“Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts — tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And in my dream I am able to read them all, to make sense of everything despite its difficulty.”
― Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
― Return to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
![Neal Stephenson](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1430920344i/545._UY200_CR14,0,200,200_.jpg)
“Yong is the outer manifestation of something. Ti is the underlying essence. Technology is a yong associated with a particular ti that is ... Western, and completely alien to us [the Chinese]. For centuries, since the time of the Opium Wars, we have struggled to absorb the yong of technology without importing the Western ti. But it has been impossible. Just as our ancestors could not open our ports to the West without accepting the poison of opium, we could not open our lives to Western technology without taking in the Western ideas, which have been as a plague on our society. The result has been centuries of chaos.”
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
― The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
“Тарквиний Змейк ворвался в класс, как свежий ветер, и задал вопрос, неожиданный для учителя химии:
— Вы знаете, как выглядит китайский иероглиф «учиться»?
Никто не знал.
— Он составлен из трех элементов: ребенок под крышей, а сверху над ним — когти. Вопросы есть?
И Гвидион сразу понял, что у него в сердце всегда найдется место для предмета, который ведет Тарквиний Змейк.”
― Школа в Кармартене
— Вы знаете, как выглядит китайский иероглиф «учиться»?
Никто не знал.
— Он составлен из трех элементов: ребенок под крышей, а сверху над ним — когти. Вопросы есть?
И Гвидион сразу понял, что у него в сердце всегда найдется место для предмета, который ведет Тарквиний Змейк.”
― Школа в Кармартене
![John Hersey](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1257262705i/15328._UX200_CR0,40,200,200_.jpg)
“Thus a translation of a translation brought us together, but I can see now that we were still very far apart, farther apart indeed than languages, even though we had laughed together, for our laugher was cruel, as laughter often is. I was laughing at the awkwardness of a Chinese mind, the translator's; Su-ling at the awkwardness of a Western mind, mine.”
― A Single Pebble
― A Single Pebble
![Mo Yan](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1600848527i/121407._UX200_CR0,0,200,200_.jpg)
“My little donkey, if I hadn't shown up, your fate would have been sealed. Love has saved you. Is there anything else that could erase the innate fears of a donkey and send him to rescue you from certain death? No. That is the only one. With a call to arms, I, Ximen Donkey, charged down the ridge and headed straight for the wolf that was tailing my beloved. My hooves kicked up sand and dust as I raced down from my commanding position; no wolf, not even a tiger, could have avoided the spearhead aimed at it. It saw me too late to move out of the way, and I thudded into it, sending it head over heels. Then I turned around and said to my donkey, "Do not fear my dear, I am here!”
― Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
― Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out
“Hold fast to the mountain, take root in a broken-up bluff, grow stronger after tribulations, and withstand the buffering wind from all directions.”
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![H.L. Mencken](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1399814051i/7805._UX200_CR0,37,200,200_.jpg)
“There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese.”
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![Bill Schutt](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/authors/1456026363i/1375485._UY200_CR33,0,200,200_.jpg)
“T'ao Tsung-yi, a writer during the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), wrote that "children's meat was the best food of all in taste" followed by women and then men.”
― Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
― Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
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