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China has stood up.
— 1949 Proclaiming the establishment of the People's Republic of China,1 Oct.
The most influential Westerner to write about China since thirteenth-century Marco Polo.
pearl buck— "Why Doesn't Pearl Buck Get Respect?" by James Thomson in The Philadelphia Inquirer (24 July 1992), p. A15
[Speaking of Chinese president Sun Yat-sen] ...combined Benjamin Franklin and George Washington of China.
calvin coolidge— The Human Odyssey: Volume 2 by Tanim Ansary et al, p. 653.
The case for vegetarians - plants cure illnesses (heard of Ayurveda). Animal diets cause most illnesses (heard of the China Study.
siddharth katragadda— The Other Wife(2003) by Siddharth Katragadda page 88
There are no demands - undue demands... There are many questions we get? why China? why now and the answer is why not?... There is no any hidden agenda in our cooperation with China, it is a relationship based on mutual understanding and equality; they understand our situation.
jakaya kikwete— During President Hu Jintao's visit to Tanzania on China's aid with few strings, 2009-02-16[11]
Russia, France, Germany and China. They revere their writers. America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.
james a. michener— "A Spelunker in the Caves of History" in Modern Maturity (August 1985)
You know, you can imagine in China it's like: "Ching chong, ching chong chong, Danny DeVito, ching chong chong chong, drunk, 'The View,' ching chong.
Rosie O'Donnell— Chung, L.A. (16 December 2006). "'Ching-chong' joke spreads ignorance". San Jose Mercury News. Retrieved on 2010-11-09.
— O'Donnell using the pejorative term ching chong to describe Danny Devito on The View.
China has been long one of the richest, that is, one of the most fertile, best cultivated, most industrious, and most populous countries in the world. It seems, however, to have been long stationary. Marco Polo, who visited it more than five hundred years ago, describes its cultivation, industry, and populousness, almost in the same terms in which they are described by travellers in the present times.
Adam Smith— Chapter VIII, p. 86
Marriage is encouraged in China, not by the profitableness of children, but by the liberty of destroying them.
Adam Smith— Chapter VIII, p. 87
All human race, from China to Peru,Pleasure, howe’er disguis’d by art, pursue.
thomas warton— Universal Love of Pleasure, Reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Let observation with extensive view/ Survey mankind, from China to Peru", Samuel Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 1.
"In a year and a half," "China will be sufficiently reunited to allow me to take my trip around the world. I wish to take Madam Wu and an entourage of about thirty persons, engaging expert guides in each country to instruct me in its governmental and industrial methods."
wu peifu— Upton Close (2007). In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China. READ BOOKS. p. 354. ISBN 1-4067-1675-8. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
— Upton Close (2007). In the Land of the Laughing Buddha – The Adventures of an American Barbarian in China. READ BOOKS. p. 355. ISBN 1-4067-1675-8. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
It remains to be seen, for example whether China can continue to develop as a market economy while still retaining an authoritarian communist political system.
peter dicken— Chapter 17, Making a Living in Developing Countries, p. 569
Modern capitalist nations are the fruit of a history of slavery, genocide, violence and exploitation every bit as abhorrent as Mao's China or Stalin's Soviet Union.
terry eagleton— Chapter 2, p. 12
I'd love to get you on a slow boat to China, All to myself, alone. Get you and keep you in my arms evermore, Leave all your lovers weeping on the far away shore.
frank loesser— Song On a Slow Boat to China
People who try to commit suicide don't attempt to save them! China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.
Mao Tse-tung— As quoted in Mao's Last Revolution (2006) by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, ISBN 0674023323
The reason was the failure of both Japan and China to understand each other and the inability of America and the European powers to sympathize, without prejudice, with the peoples of East Asia.
Hideki Tojo— Quoted in "The Journal of Historical Review", by Institute for Historical Review (1992, pg. 43)
It is impossible for us to recognize (mainland China) as another nation within our (Republic of China) territory.
— Ma Ying-jeou (2013) cited in: "Cross-strait political issues not being shied from: Ma" in Taipei Times, 23 October 2013.
— Statement made during the meeting with Kuomintang delegation at the Presidential Office in Taipei heading to the cross-strait forum with the Communist Party of China in Nanning, Guangxi Province, 22 October 2013.
People can go to the extreme like what we saw during the Cultural Revolution. For instance, in China, when people take everything into their own hands, then you cannot govern the place. ... [It] was the people taking power into their own hands. Now that is what you mean by democracy if you take it to the full swing.
— As quoted in "Hong Kong leader apologises for democracy gaffe" at AFP (14 October 2007)
As illustrated on the attached map from Hofstra University, the island nation of Sri Lanka is astride the main maritime trade routes of the Indian Ocean, with fast-growing economic and strategic significance as that area of the world experiences rapid growth. China is making major inroads already in Sri Lanka, but our distinguished visitors wish to make sure that relations with the United States are improved even more strongly.
— Mr Ajith Nivard Cabraal the governor of Central Bank of Sri Lanka and Lalith Weeratuga sending a letter, quoted on Tamil Net, "Colombo bargains China connections in return for US favour", February 2, 2014.
People who try to commit suicide don't attempt to save them!:;.:;.:;. China is such a populous nation, it is not as if we cannot do without a few people.
— Mao Zedong, as quoted in Mao's Last Revolution (2006) by Roderick MacFarquhar and Michael Schoenhals, ISBN 0674023323
While India’s life expectancy figure of around 60 years compare quite unfavourably with China’s 69 years, Kerala’s life expectancy – about 72 years – appears on the other side of China’s achievement. Similarly, the infant mortality rate of 79 per thousand live births in India is very high indeed in comparison with China’s 31, but Kerala’s rate of 17 is much better than China’s. Again while India’s literacy rate is much lower than that of China, Kerala’s is substantially higher than China’s.
— Amartya Sen and Jean Dréze in India: Economic Development and Social Opportunity, 1995, Oxford University Press.
China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture , one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor .
— Ai Weiwei, in Culture Ai Weiwei: 'China's art world does not exist', The Guardian, 10 September 2012
When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.
— Quoted in Forbes, Vol. 176, Editions 7-13 (2005), p. 79
"I have served the Government of China for many years, first the Emperor, and after that the Republican Government at Nanking. I have always tried to do my best; but I must have committed errors--- though I do not know what they were---or this misfortune would not have befallen me. I have lost face."
— Peter Fleming (1999). News from Tartary: A Journey from Peking to Kashmir. Evanston Illinois: Northwestern University Press. p. 327. ISBN 0810160714. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
"I lost my post when, as a result of the troubles, China lost her authority in Kashgar."
— Ella K. Maillart (2006). Forbidden Journey. READ BOOKS. p. 255. ISBN 1406719269. Retrieved on 2010-06-28.
Stone age craftsmen in China were polishing objects using diamond 2,000 years before anyone else had the same idea.
— BBC, in "Chinese made first use of diamond".
Rule1, on page1of the book of war is: 'Do not march on Moscow'?[Rule 2] is: 'Donot gofighting withyour land armies in China.'
— 1962 Speech in the House of Lords, 30 May.
We should cement political trust between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and continue to define cross-strait relations under the 'one China' framework. Cross-strait relations are special relations.
— Wu Po-hsiung (2013) quoted in: "Political talks may come up: KMT’s Wu" in Taipei Times 27 October 2013
— Statements were made during the 9th Cross-Strait Economic, Trade and Culture Forum in Nanning, Guangxi on 26-27 October 2013.
Hypocrisy, double standards, and "but nots" are the price of universalist pretensions. Democracy is promoted, but not if it brings Islamic fundamentalists to power; nonproliferation is preached for Iran and Iraq, but not for Israel; free trade is the elixir of economic growth, but not for agriculture; human rights are an issue for China, but not with Saudi Arabia; aggression against oil-owning Kuwaitis is massively repulsed, but not against non-oil-owning Bosnians. Double standards in practice are the unavoidable price of universal standards of principle.
— Samuel P. Huntington The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) p. 184
