…there is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese…. (p. 111)

Perhaps the god who had made the Cat People intended them as a joke. They had schools, but no education; politicians but no government; people, but no personal integrity; faces, but no concept of face....

Quing-Jao: I am a slave to the gods, and I rejoice in it.Jane: A slave who rejoices is a slave indeed.

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...

It’s been a long time since I had a Chinese-language movie show in the Mainland, but everyone still remembers me. Thanks for giving face.

The snapshots in CHINA: Portrait of a People are not meant to be works of art. I was too preoccupied with participating, with reveling in the moment, to worry about their perfection. Their purpose, then,...

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...

But the other factor is that we have indications that Chinese demand for platinum is recovering despite prices being stable between $845 and $880.

The traditional superstition has put on the cloak of modern high technology, poisoning an increasing number of Chinese kids and youth.

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

And so the result of several years of Everybody Shareskyism, other than slaughtering people, is for everybody to stand around and stare blankly at each other.

To most Americans, a dog is a potential mate. To some Chinese, a dog is potential meat.

What we need to do now is get the Russians and Chinese to tell the Iranians they won’t be in a position to help them out in the [Security] Council if they go forward with...

Interestingly, both the Chinese and Russians have expressed interest in some form of international effort to place curbs on such attacks. The Russians have gone so far as to formally propose via the Secretary General...

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...

The move would ensure fair play among Chinese exporters, help better manage their performance, and optimize the use of export quotas.

Later a Japanese consul contacted the Chinese side on the matter, consented to it that the five persons be taken away by Chinese police and thanked the armed police officers for their efforts,

The risk of investing in Chinese contemporary oil paintings is low, since the cost is comparatively low.

Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships...

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...

I’m online, therefore I am.

John is held in high regard by the Chinese government and if anyone can convince them to move more rapidly on adjusting upwards the exchange rate it is John.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

Is China a drug? Like any drug, it depends entirely on the user’s own state of mind. If we’re making metaphors, for old China hands I’d imagine their time here draws parallels with the soaring...

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...

The rights of the returned Chinese should be well protected, as they make a vital contribution to China’s modernization.

I consulted a Chinese herbalist and spent two weeks on an island off the coast of Zanzibar. I was away from any kind of contemporary technology.

The Chinese did not admire a bent back; goddesses and warriors stood straight. Still there must have been a marvelous freeing of beauty when a worker laid down her burden and stretched and arched.

The progress of science has always been the result of a close interplay between our concepts of the universe and our observations on nature. The former can only evolve out of the latter and yet...

Okay. I’m not a white male. At least, not predominantly so. And as I mentioned before, I’m in an environment right now where race is really important. See, Chinese men are not that physically intimidating....

If I had remained in Lhasa, even without the Chinese occupation, I would probably have carried the ceremonial role in some orthodox way.

There’s nothing in Chinese culture that is an equivalent of the geisha. It’s so different, so special to Japan.

Will: ‘Singing the praises of our fair city? We treat you well here, don’t we, James? I doubt I’d have that kind of luck in Shanghai. What do you call us there again?’Jem: ‘Yang guizi...

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...

Only on a few occasions had I ever been comfortable showing my body off, and now here I was, taking a job where Asian boobs and ass ran free.

Nature seems to take advantage of the simple mathematical representations of the symmetry laws. When one pauses to consider the elegance and the beautiful perfection of the mathematical reasoning involved and contrast it with the...

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.

Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical...

Hardly anybody can name a Chinese writer.

The Chinese economy’s still not that much of a consumer economy.

The backlog shows the quotas are unrealistic and don’t reflect the fundamental demand for Chinese garments. If the quotas can’t be fully lifted, the next best solution is to raise them.

Chinese tourism was the factor that kept Hong Kong from recession,

I am Taiwanese as well as Chinese.

The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it’s about how you perform.

I feel very unsafe, … In 16 years, the Chinese government has done nothing for political reform. People have no political freedom, no human rights.

If I didn’t do well at Wimbledon maybe Chinese people will forget about me.