Chinese Quotes

At midnight on July 1, 1997, Hongkong, the British Crown Colony, will be restored to China. This is not only an event which will be celebrated by patriotic Chinese; any patriotic American should celebrate it as well.

I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse?

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.

As long as I am alive, I am fully committed to amity between Tibetans and Chinese. Otherwise there's no use.

Chinese people themselves, they really want change.

The Chinese foreign ministry has said more than once that I am a free person. Did I do anything wrong by leaving my home?

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

I've been to China and Russia, and I don't know anything about Chinese or Soviet relations.

You just wait. I'm going to be the biggest Chinese Star in the world.

China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.

Millions also perished in the Chinese camps, and there have been terrible genocides in Cambodia and Vietnam.

To ancient Chinese fancy, the Milky Way was a luminous river, - the River of Heaven, - the Silver Stream.

The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.

I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.

But a multitude of people, even the two hundred million of the Chinese empire, cannot subsist without civil government.

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.

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy.

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

Global fuel and consumption, however, is projected to increase by 100 to 150 percent over the next 20 years, driven largely by the rapidly growing Chinese and Indian economies; and this growth and this increase in demand will force prices even higher.

The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture.

It doesn't make a lot of sense for us to borrow money from the Chinese to go give to another country for humanitarian aid. We ought to get the Chinese to take care of the people.

And look at the mess that Russia is; most Chinese don't want to follow that.

And I managed to arrange to get some research support and to stay in Hong Kong for another year and a half, interviewing people coming out of China, both Westerners and Chinese. And that was my first real research study on thought reform or so-called brainwashing.

If we all say the same thing, then I think the government has to listen. But because no one is saying it, I become singled out, even though what I'm saying is common sense. It's very essential values that we all have to protect. But in Chinese society, people are giving up on protecting these values.