#chinese

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#chinese #cultural #directed #expansion #foreign

My hope is that the Chinese government will come to realise that it is futile to repress free speech, and that contrary to what they believe a regime's strength rests not its suppression of a plurality of opinions and ideas, but in its capacity and willingness to encourage them. ↗

— Ma Jian

#capacity #chinese #chinese government #come #contrary

We'd go out in Larry's hippie van and drive out all around Dallas. He loved Chinese food, he'd go in and say. Remember me Major Nelson, me and my friends here are making this show called Dallas, have you got a table for us? It would work every time. ↗

— Steve Kanaly

#called #chinese #chinese food #dallas #drive

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. ↗

— Aaron Shepard

#goddesses #thought-provoking #change

There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south. ↗

— Denis Kearney

#british #british columbia #chinese #columbia #few

The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought. ↗

— John Keegan

#always #battle #better #chinese #classics

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#aristocrat #career #cast #chinese #frontier

Many Chinese saw opium as a poison introduced by foreign enemies. ↗

— Robert Trout

#foreign #introduced #many #opium #poison

Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing that money and starting over somewhere else. That was a fact of factory life you couldn't know from the outside: Getting into a factory was easy. The hard part was getting out. ↗

— Leslie T. Chang

#china #chinese #chuqu #city #factory

Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chinese #crisis #economic #economic crisis #fortunately