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 wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took Mandarin Chinese.
A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet; her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.
It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was involved in reading Chinese history, or languages, or whatever.
The great Chinese classics have always said that it's better not to fight; that the clever man achieves his ends without violence; that a battle delayed is better than a battle fought.
I never want to feel like I've achieved my goal. It's like Chinese farmers. They never admit that it's a good season. They feel like they'll be punished.
The fight against AIDS in China is already well underway. The Chinese government and other funders are providing major support, and they'll continue to bear primary responsibility for delivering prevention and treatment.
The Chinese say that having two homes is the way to madness. I'm not mad, but I definitely wish Hollywood would move to Trafalgar Square. But the life of an actor is a life of movement, isn't it?
It's proper and appropriate to remind the Chinese about what they get out of solid relations with the United States.
I'm gradually beginning to feel that we Chinese need to be controlled. If we're not being controlled, we'll just do what we want.
China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans.
Clearly, the Chinese need the resources, but I don't think they want to clash with the industrial world which happens to be the market for their goods.
We welcome Chinese investment in the United States with open arms.
I don't care if you're gay, black, Chinese, straight. That means nothing to me. It's all an illusion.
I prefer the Chinese method of eating. You can do anything at the table except arm wrestle.
I tried therapy. This had never appealed to me. For me, it was a bit like a Chinese meal: very filling at the time, but then an hour later you're hungry again.
The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.
In Asia, red is the colour of joy; red is the colour of festivities and of celebration. In Chinese culture, blue is the colour of mourning.
If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
