1,113 Quotes About China
- Author Mark Kurlansky
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In February 1912, ancient China came to an end when the last of three millennia of Chinese emperors abdicated.Imagine twentieth-century Italy coming to terms with the fall of the Roman empire or Egypt with the last pharaoh abdicating in 1912. For China, the last century has been a period of transition - dramatic change and perpetual revolution.
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- Author Jim Rogers
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Nearly every time I strayed from the herd, I've made a lot of money. Wandering away from the action is the way to find the new action.
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- Author Jan Wong
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Living in China has made me appreciate my own country, with its tiny, ethnically diverse population of unassuming donut-eaters.
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- Author Tom Carter
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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?
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- Author Paul Theroux
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It was always like a fire drill, getting on or off a Chinese train, with people panting and pushing
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- Author Paul Theroux
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Lom mister,' he said, and winked at me. 'It's the CIA, isn't it? You're an agent, you tell people you're a journalist because that's good cover ...
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- Author Paul Theroux
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If he doesn't talk to me, and he doesn't walk around with me, and he doesn't travel in the same compartment,' I said, 'I don't understand why he wants to come with me.''To make sure you are comfortable. Hospitality. You are our guest ...
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- Author Paul Theroux
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Where are you going, Mr. Paul?''For a walk.'Mr. Fang conferred with his Hothot deputy. My walk was given official sanction, and I was driven about a hundred yards to the People's Park and released.
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- Author Paul Theroux
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I could tell he was worried by what I would ask to do next. I spent the rest of the day trying to elude him and his deputy, and at last, in the market, I succeeded. It was late in the afternoon. We were all (Mr. Fang, his deputy, the driver and I) admiring a stack of vegetables, and when I saw they were transfixed by a shaggy mound of blue cabbages I slipped away.
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