Westernised Chinese Quotes

He didn't know what he was anymore – not truly Chinese, for he had spent too long in the West, adopted too many Western ideas, but neither did he feel truly Westernised. There had been times when he had thought himself so, but a glimpse at his reflection quickly showed him the impossibility of such thoughts. No, rather, he felt suspended between two worlds, never to truly belong to either. The Yellow Papers ~ Dominique Wilson

There are photographers who push for war because they make stories. They search for a Chinese who has a more Chinese are than the others and they end up finding one. They have him take a typically Chinese pose and surround him with chinoiseries. What have they captured on their film? A Chinese? Definitely not: the idea of the Chinese. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre

A club hurts the flesh, but evil words hurt the bone. -Traditional Chinese Proverb ~ Matthew Polly

If you watch a Chinese movie with subtitles, it's just like watching an Arabic movie with Chinese subtitles. That explains why you can't take Chinese language movies and expect them to go abroad. ~ Bruno Zheng Wu

When the wind of change blows, some people build walls, others build windmills. ~ Chinese Proverb

Even though I believe we should promote Chinese medicine, I personally do not believe in it. I don't take Chinese medicine ... ~ Mao Zedong

He who makes soup of thistles is ill qualified to discuss the savor of a stalled ox.
Chinese Sayings ~ Helen Evans Brown

I don't think it's worth discussing new directions in the context of Chinese art - there were no old directions, either. Chinese art has never had any clear orientation. ~ Ai Weiwei

Most Western journalists in China prefer a Chinese-free international language, and thus bend over backwards to replace important Chinese terms with Western vocabularies. ~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

Crisis is both danger and opportunity. ~ Chinese Quote

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know. ~ Yao Ming

Time will solve all the problems Chinese school graduates face. In our bilingual society, there are no more Chinese school graduates, only English school graduates who can speak Mandarin. These English school graduates probably can also read and write Chinese, but they did not go to a Chinese school, and they act and think differently from us. Drawing a line between us, they would never say they graduated from a Chinese school, because former Chinese school graduates, that is, the vanishing group of people that includes us, are second-class citizens. They, on the other hand, belong to the first class, the Chinese elite, English school graduates who are fluent in Chinese. ~ Yeng Pway Ngon

The Pentagon banned the army from using Chinese-made berets. In a more veiled slap at the Chinese, the Pentagon also banned any alternative form of checkers. ~ Jimmy Fallon

It is a great mistake to say that the Chinese are not hospitable. A more graceful, hearty hospitality than that of the Chinese I have met in no land. ~ Lottie Moon

I spend like $2 million a year on Chinese food and pizza for ten people in the studio who don't sing or produce. ~ R. Kelly

Chinese food in Texas is the best Chinese food in the United States except Boston. ~ John Updike

Chinese Americans, when you try to understand what things in you are Chinese, how do you separate what is peculiar to childhood, to poverty, insanities, one family, your mother who marked your growing with stories, from what is Chinese? What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies? ~ Maxine Hong Kingston

I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality. ~ Tom Verlaine

For most Americans, my Chinese music feels like a novelty, and it's not what it is for me. ~ Abigail Washburn

Only desperation can account for what the Chinese do in the name of 'medicine.' That's something you might remind your New Age friends who've gone gaga over 'holistic medicine' and 'alternative Chinese cures. ~ Anthony Bourdain

Life is an adventure. ~ Chinese Cookie

In 1924 Mao took a Chinese friend, newly arrived from Europe, to see the notorious sign in the Shanghai park, 'Chinese and Dogs Not Allowed'. ~ Paul Johnson

Chinese language tends to be quick, economical. To know what people are saying, you always need to know what the context is. ~ Gish Jen

The Chinese, on the other hand, were in the position of having an American military spy plane on a Chinese military base and they had their own internal problems to deal with. At first, the Chinese weren't all that belligerent. They were just stalling to get their own bureaucracy in line. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

Like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant! ~ Elena Kagan

I'm putting all my money in the Chinese toy market. ~ Warren Buffett

A little fragrance always clings to the hand that gives the roses. ~ Chinese Proverb

At Berkshire Hathaway we do not like to compete against Chinese manufacturers. ~ Charlie Munger

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived. ~ Robert Trout

Since then, as the Chinese navy becomes larger and more wide-ranging, the bent toward Mahan has only intensified in Beijing, especially with the rise of Indian sea power, which the Chinese fear; the Indians, for their part, view the Chinese in similar Mahanian terms. ~ Robert D. Kaplan

I've read hundreds of books about China over the decades. I know the Chinese. I've made a lot of money with the Chinese. I understand the Chinese mind. ~ Donald J. Trump

What we did do was got to Chinese school. Whether you lived in D.C., Ann Arbor, New York, or Orlando, if there were Chinese people, there were Chinese schools where you went every Sunday to take Chinese Language and cultural classes. Chinese people would drive hours from every direction to take their kids to school. All teachers were volunteers and the parents chipped in to keep it going. While the rest of America went to church, we learned how to read right to left. ~ Eddie Huang

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

I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of people eating according to traditional Chinese medicine. So our challenge is, How do you marry traditional Chinese medicine with PepsiCo's products? ~ Indra Nooyi

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

every Chinese person is familiar with Kongzi, or 'Master Kong', as Confucius is known in Chinese. ~ Meher McArthur

I think the Chinese are really amateurs when it comes to running markets. ~ David Wessel

You will never be on this anchor desk, because you're Chinese. ~ Julie Chen

My experience of Chinese culture is indirect, through echoes. When I approach the cashier at my local Chinese supermarket, they switch to English before I've even said a word. They somehow know that I'm not quite Chinese enough. ~ Gene Luen Yang

Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture. ~ Orhan Pamuk

The Chinese say, 'It's good to live in interesting times.' ~ Kenneth Branagh

I love the Chinese words for greeting: not strictly 'Hello' but 'Have you eaten yet? ~ Rick Stein

In Dogtown, skateboards are like bikes to the Chinese. ~ Emile Hirsch

There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese. ~ James Comey

But the weakness comes from these Westernised co-opted Muslim leaders who just want to look good in the eyes of the West and Western media. ~ Abu Bakar Bashir

Best Buy went and hired a lot of Shanghai staff, but went and westernised them. They only work eight hours a day! ~ Zhang Jindong

When the Chinese first came to San Francisco, they were actually welcomed by the mayor and they had special ceremonies for them-again this is when their colony was very small, only a few Chinese. ~ Iris Chang

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance. ~ Hu Shih

无惧无急 (The fearless do not hurry.) ~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Please understand the reason why Chinese vegetables taste so good. It is simple. The Chinese do not cook them, they just threaten them! ~ Jeff Smith

So why is Chinese social networking booming despite the censorship? Part of the reason is the Chinese language. Posts on Twitter and Twitter clones such as Weibo are limited to 140 characters. In English that comes to about 20 words or a sentence with a short link - in effect, a headline. But in Chinese you can write a whole paragraph or tell a whole story in 140 characters. One Chinese tweet is equal to 3.5 English tweets. In some ways, Weibo (which means "microblog" in Chinese) is more like Facebook than Twitter. As far as the Chinese are concerned, if something is not on Weibo, it does not exist. ~ Michael Anti

Keep a green tree alive in your heart, and a songbird may come to sing there. ~ Chinese Proverb

I'm sure the movie industry is going up but I would love to see more Chinese films about contemporary Chinese about the problems of life on the street. ~ Paz Vega

People always think of Chinese food as the go-to ethnic food when everything else is closed during the holidays, but Indian is a nice alternative. Plus - Indians? Thanksgiving? Kinda makes sense ... ~ Erin Gibson

Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher. According to Chinese tradition, Laozi lived in the 6th century BC, however many historians contend that Laozi ~ Lao-Tzu

Learning is like rowing upstream; not to advance is to drop back.
- Chinese proverb ~ Alvin Toffler

The Chinese nation has always pursued a life in harmony with other nations despite differences. ~ Li Zhaoxing

If you don't want anyone to find out about it then don't do it ~ Chinese-proverbs

I believe that the Chinese people as a whole love to make investments in real estate. ~ Pansy Ho

I have a dream to provide every Chinese, especially children, sufficient milk each day. ~ Wen Jiabao

In my school days, everyone thought I'm too tall for a Chinese girl. ~ Liu Wen

I believe it's important that Hong Kong does not become another Chinese city. ~ Richard Li

The Chinese people, too, went through all kinds of vicissitudes in their religious development. ~ Hu Shih

We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them. ~ Dalai Lama

Because at this time, in this place, Chinese writing exhibits symptoms of a mental disorder. ~ Murong Xuecun

It is not wise [for Chinese] to do things to artificially disrupt relations with the U.S. ~ Jiang Zemin

They said her duck recipe and the Chinese music were so dramatic everything else sounded anemic. ~ Frank McCourt

Chinese architecture has a complete organic structure; it contains both sensibility and purpose. ~ Wu Guanzhong

I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy' - in Chinese or in English. ~ Yiyun Li

The North Koreans or Chinese may have a million men in uniform but it's about how you perform. ~ Philip Hammond

Even one billion Chinese do not a superpower make. ~ John Lukacs

I'm very curious to witness the historic transformation of Chinese women. ~ Yang Lan

I think the Chinese government is doing a great job right now. ~ Alex Chiu

I'm not a machine. I get really motivated, then I fall off the wagon and want to eat Chinese food and sit on my couch and gain five or 10 pounds! ~ Shemar Moore

There's a Chinese saying: "The first part that rots is the head." It really does. I've seen it. ~ Thomas Bidegain

The Boxer Rebellion is a war that was fought on Chinese soil in the year 1900. The Europeans, the Japanese and their Chinese Christian allies were on one side. On the other were poor, starving, illiterate Chinese teenagers whom the Europeans referred to as the Boxers. ~ Gene Luen Yang

A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice. ~ Frances Mayes

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Science has already proven the dangers of smoking, alcohol, and Chinese food, but I can still ruin soft drinks for everyone!. ~ Yeardley Smith

Growth in the Chinese automobile market has exceeded everyone's expectations. ~ Martin Winterkorn

Do understand: Chinese people are brilliant; the West cannot fool them. ~ Andre Vltchek

In reading Western science fiction, Chinese readers discover the fears and hopes of Man, the modern Prometheus, for his destiny, which is also his own creation. Perhaps Western readers can also read Chinese science fiction and experience an alternative Chinese modernity and be inspired to imagine an alternative future. ~ Xia Jia

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. ~ Pankaj Mishra

You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar ... Yung No Mo ~ Dana Rosemary Scallon

Harvard has now de facto become a Chinese outpost. ~ Thorsten J. Pattberg

Nobody is making Americans buy Chinese goods. ~ P. J. O'Rourke

Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory. ~ Joan Rivers

How can the reality of 600 million Chinese be ignored? ~ Janio Quadros

This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people. ~ Jet Li

And if anyone asks, you're Chinese. The boy had nodded. "Chinese," he whispered. "I'm Chinese." "And I," said the girl, "am the Queen of Spain." "In your dreams," said the boy. "In my dreams," said the girl, "I'm the King. ~ Julie Otsuka

There are three things Jewish people worship-God, Chinese food and wall-to-wall carpeting. ~ Woody Allen

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society. ~ Larry Herzberg

For years, the US government loudly warned the world that Chinese routers and other Internet devices pose a "threat" because they are built with backdoor surveillance functionality that gives the Chinese government the ability to spy on anyone using them. Yet what the NSA's documents show is that Americans have been engaged in precisely the activity that the United States accused the Chinese of doing. ~ Glenn Greenwald

We first became conscious of the plane publicly on a Monday. I thought then by the weekend it would be done. But then the Chinese military, the defense minister made a statement saying that if there was no apology from the United States, the Chinese military and the Chinese people would never understand. No reference to the government or the Communist Party, and that obviously presented an internal problem to the Chinese leadership, which was travelling at that moment. ~ Henry A. Kissinger

What would we say if the Chinese sent a gunboat with their marines up the Mississippi River claiming they were protecting their laundries in Memphis? ~ Will Rogers

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

Club Med is very suitable for a Chinese lifestyle. ~ Guo Guangchang

Like most Chinese, I am basically a fatalist - too sophisticated for religion and too superstitious to deny the gods. ~ Bette Lord

There is reinforcement in such familiar back-formations as Chinee from Chinese, Portugee from Portuguese. ~ H.L. Mencken

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close. ~ Tori Amos