681 Quotes About Chinese

  • Author Kevin Norrish
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    After such a slow 2005 for Chinese oil demand an acceleration in growth looks highly likely in 2006 and this will exert further pressure on oil supply and prices.

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  • Author Li Na
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    I want to go to Shenzhen or somewhere down south to work as a waitress or in a factory. I don't want to do what my mom does. Life's too tough as a Chinese farmer.

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  • Author Makhosini Nkosi
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    Food with Chinese printing on the packaging, newspapers printed in Chinese and Chinese-manufactured clothing were found in the house. Police concluded that the inhabitants of the house were mainly Chinese.

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  • Author Evan Osnos
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    Confucius - or Kongzi, which means Master Kong - was not born to power, but his idiosyncrasies and ideas made him the Zelig of the Chinese classics.

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  • Author Evan Osnos
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    If the economy can only provide a diminishing political dividend, Chinese leaders will encourage their people to feel pride and vigor in other ways.

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  • Author Evan Osnos
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    Over the centuries, Chinese bureaucrats perfected the dark arts of emptiness to such an extent that when they deliver speeches these days, they often recite verbatim speeches that they have previously delivered, with the sparest of adjustments.

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  • Author Evan Osnos
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    When Libya was in turmoil in 2011, the Chinese public was surprised to discover that more than thirty thousand of their countrymen were living there, most of them working on Chinese-run oil projects.

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