#chinese

China and the U.S. are two societies with very different attitudes towards opinion and criticism. In China, I am constantly under surveillance. Even my slightest, most innocuous move can - and often is - censored by Chinese authorities. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#attitudes #authorities #censored #china #chinese

Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people 'disappear' or to jail them merely because they have different opinions. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#because #british #cameron #chinese #chinese government

Widespread state control over art and culture has left no room for freedom of expression in the country. For more than 60 years, anyone with a dissenting opinion has been suppressed. Chinese art is merely a product: it avoids any meaningful engagement. There is no larger context. Its only purpose is to charm viewers with its ambiguity. ↗

— Ai Weiwei

#any #anyone #art #avoids #been

Workers were required to stay six months, and even then permission to quit was not always granted. The factory held the first two months of every worker's pay; leaving without approval meant losing that money and starting over somewhere else. That was a fact of factory life you couldn't know from the outside: Getting into a factory was easy. The hard part was getting out. ↗

— Leslie T. Chang

#china #chinese #chuqu #city #factory

The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238 ↗

— Leslie Bratspis

#chinese-wisdom #compassion #inner-wisdom #life-lessons #meditation

No, you cannot stop the birds of sorrow from flying over your head, but you can stop them from building nests in your hair. ↗

— D. Byron Patterson

#life-lesson #wisdom #life

The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought. ↗

— Tom Lantos

#chinese #congress #day #ensure #forget

Our parents decided not to teach us Chinese. It was an era when they felt we would be better off if we didn't have that complication. ↗

— Maya Lin

#better off #chinese #complication #decided #era

The first time I walked into the Olympic athlete village seeing the Visa ATM machine with my picture on it and the Chinese characters saying 'Destiny.' For some reason, it just boosted my confidence and it was before I had even worked out or had my first training or competed. ↗

— Nastia Liukin

#atm #before #characters #chinese #competed

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make. ↗

— John Lukacs

#chinese #even #make #superpower