#chinese

Clearly, the Chinese know that we want a good relationship with them. ↗

— Fred Thompson

#clearly #good #good relationship #know #relationship

As the global expansion of Indian and Chinese restaurants suggests, xenophobia is directed against foreign people, not foreign cultural imports. ↗

— Eric Hobsbawm

#chinese #cultural #directed #expansion #foreign

What Americans can't face is that one of the reasons that the Russians and the Chinese were so impressed with us during the Cold War was the fact that Nixon and Kissinger went on bombing despite public reaction. ↗

— Robert D. Kaplan

#chinese #cold #cold war #despite #during

Throughout my career, I was to be cast as a frontier girl, an aristocrat, an Arabian, a Eurasian, a Polynesian, and a Chinese. ↗

— Gene Tierney

#aristocrat #career #cast #chinese #frontier

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself. ↗

— Deng Xiaoping

#china #chinese #home #how #itself

The problem with a lot of Chinese is that they put up divisions between Taiwanese, Hong Kong natives, mainlanders. We are never united. I really hope that the Chinese can be more united. ↗

— Martin Yan

#chinese #divisions #hong #hong kong #hope

As I stand here today and tell you about these, I am heavy with an awareness of the fact that I am in more than one sense a product of both the Chinese and Western cultures, in harmony and in conflict. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

#am #awareness #both #chinese #conflict

I should like to say that I am as proud of my Chinese heritage and background as I am devoted to modern science, a part of human civilization of Western origin, to which I have dedicated and I shall continue to dedicate my work. ↗

— Chen Ning Yang

#background #chinese #civilization #continue #dedicate

He turned to Frank who was trying to pull his fingers out of the Chinese handcuffs… “Okay,” Frank relented. “Sure.” He frowned at his fingers, trying to pull them out of the trap. “Uh, how do you—” Leo chuckled. “Man, you’ve never seen those before? There’s a simple trick to getting out.” Frank tugged again with no luck. Even Hazel was trying not to laugh. Frank grimaced with concentration. Suddenly, he disappeared. On the deck where he’d been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs. “Well done, Frank Zhang,” Leo said dryly, doing his impression of Chiron the centaur. “That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#frank-zhang #heroes-of-olympus #humor #jason-grace #keep-it-simple

But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand parents were Chinese. But for some reason, they feel they are not Chinese. ↗

— Alex Chiu

#feel #grand #idiots #now #parents