#chinese

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society. ↗

— Larry Herzberg

#chinese #culture #language #proverbs #sayings

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe. ↗

— George Eliot

#chinese #else #feet #fixed #happiness

By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the men who have ruined Ireland and India, and are now poisoning and enslaving the Chinese people. ↗

— Henry Charles Carey

#british #chinese #chinese people #enslaving #free

I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time, but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#chinese #did #i #learn #learning

I drift like a cloud, Across these venerable eastern lands, A journey of unfathomable distances, An endless scroll of experiences... Lady Zhejiang here we must part, For the next province awaits my embrace. Sad wanderer, once you conquer the East, Where do you go? ↗

— Tom Carter

#china #chinese #collecting-poetic-lines #hangzhou #ji-ju

But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#attacked #chinese #come #mainland #obligated

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

A war in the Taiwan Strait would destroy China's international relations overnight. It would destroy Chinese - Japanese relations, not to mention Chinese - American relations. ↗

— William Kirby

#china #chinese #destroy #international #international relations

And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that. ↗

— William Kirby

#follow #look #mess #most #russia

So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red. ↗

— Tim Vine

#chinese #duck #i #me #red