681 Quotes About Chinese


  • Author Nicole Mones
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    You know how someone - something - surprises you. You wake up a little bit. That's done through Chinese cuisine - for example, through dishes of artifice. That's a whole sub-tradition in Chinese cuisine. To create a dish that comes to the table looking like one thing but actually is something else.

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  • Author Pankaj Mishra
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    Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.

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  • Author Pankaj Mishra
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    National independence, and the preceding political struggles, helped create the space for literary creation in many post-colonial countries. Much of modern Indian or Chinese literature is inconceivable without the political movement for freedom from foreign rule.

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  • Author Rebecca MacKinnon
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    Normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979, combined with economic reforms and opening, transformed the Chinese people's lives.

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