#chinese

The Chinese seemed to be mourning Mao in a heartfelt fashion. But I wondered how many of their tears were genuine. People had practiced acting to such a degree that they confused it with their true feelings. ↗

— Jung Chang

#chinese #confused #degree #fashion #feelings

I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong Kong and Taiwan. Many copies have gone into China but it is still banned. ↗

— Jung Chang

#book #china #chinese #copies #gone

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay. ↗

— Michael Chang

#chinese food #food #i #long #okay

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese. ↗

— Charles de Gaulle

#big country #china #chinese #country #inhabited

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

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

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

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China. ↗

— Jung Chang

#been #between #china #chinese #constant

In the East there is a gap between the top of a wall and underside of a roof; it acts as a screen, and the Chinese were able to use it as they wished. ↗

— Stephen Gardiner

#acts #between #chinese #east #gap

All foreign companies registered in China are Chinese enterprises. Their innovation, production and business operations in China enjoy the same treatment as Chinese enterprises. ↗

— Hu Jintao

#china #chinese #companies #enjoy #enterprises