If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China? There lies a sleeping giant. Let him sleep! For when he wakes he will move the world.
China Quotes
China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow.
Yes, it is indeed a great wall. (at the Great Wall of China)
You shouldn’t stay here too long, or you’ll turn slitty-eyed. (to some British students in China)
The farms of Shensi may be described as slanting… There are few genuine mountains, only endless broken hills, hills as interminable as a sentence by James Joyce, and even more tiresome. Yet the effect is often strikingly like Picasso.
All Chinese are Confucianists when successful, and Taoists when they are failures.
Chinese is a language of fifteen thousand words and none of them in English.
People say airily, “The Chinese are so backward poor things;” my advice to such people is to go and see. They will find that the Chinese arrived at a certain point of civilisation centuries ago and remained there because they saw nothing in the progress of other countries which tempted them to imitate it. They […]
As an intensification and extension of the visual function, the phonetic alphabet diminishes the role of the other senses of sound and touch and taste in any literate culture. The fact that this does not happen in cultures such as the Chinese, which use nonphonetic scripts, enables them to retain a rich store of inclusive […]
The Chinese are only too often ready to sweep the dust of reality under the carpet of appearance.
