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America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious; and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese.

~David Riesman

Topics: America Big Capacity Chinese Humorous Interests Legendary Matches Mysterious Only Rich

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Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.

~David Tang

Topics: Also Believing Chairman Chairman Mao Characters China Chinese Enable Fewer Half Introduced Learn Mao More More People Only People Strokes Would Write

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Cantonese, which has up to nine tones as opposed to the five in Mandarin, is much more versatile and one of the richest dialects in Chinese.

~David Tang

Topics: Chinese Dialects Five More Much Nine Opposed Richest Tones Up Versatile Which

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It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.

~David Tang

Topics: About Anyone Anything Aspect Century Chinese Going Impossible Think Without 21St Century

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

~Deng Xiaoping

Topics: Abroad China Chinese Home How Itself Our Return See Students Thousands Transform Will You

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There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on the south.

~Denis Kearney

Topics: Borders British Chinese Columbia Few Mexico North Over South

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California must be all American or all Chinese. We are resolved that it shall be American, and are prepared to make it so. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance?

~Denis Kearney

Topics: American Assistance California Chinese Make May Must Prepared Rely Resolved Shall Sympathy Your

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I find when you talk with the Chinese on most subjects, they are very practical.

~Dennis C. Blair

Topics: Chinese Find Most Practical Subjects Talk Very You

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I think you can go back in history and look at what the effect in Asia and the world was of a divided, fractured China from, you know, the opium wars through the Chinese civil war, and I don't think it was pretty for Asia or the world.

~Dennis C. Blair

Topics: Asia Back China Chinese Civil Civil War Divided Effect Fractured Go History Know Look Opium Pretty Think Through War Wars World You I Think

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The Chinese, the African, and the European - they are all there. So the division of the Caribbean experience into being emphatically only African is absurd.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Absurd African Being Caribbean Chinese Division European Experience Only

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