1,113 Quotes About China

  • Author Paul Theroux
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    Xian was one of the few exceptions I found. It was genuinely interesting and pretty, and rather a stately and dignified place

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  • Author Paul Theroux
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    He had been sent to nanny me and breathe down my neck. He had been discreet-he had not gotten in my way; but who had asked him to come? Not me.

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  • Author Paul Theroux
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    Using an extremely clever if somewhat fanciful Chinese technique for ensnaring awkward visitors, they insisted that I was too important to travel alone and so stuck me with Mr. Fang.

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  • Author Thorsten J. Pattberg
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    Sadly, Asia never cared, with the unenviable consequence that today's Zuckerberg's brand, Facebook, enjoys more copyright and legal protection than the entire intellectual output of China in the last 3,000 years.

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