China Quote by Abigail Washburn

I've never been to China. I only know what the West is telling me about China.

— Ayshay

We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it through Western…

— Martin Jacques

China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation state. Whereas…

— Martin Jacques

I have viewed the West as if it were not only the salvation of China but also the natural and ultimate destination of all…

— Liu Xiaobo

Modern China; one also finds many things that are really quite admirable.

— Noam Chomsky

Now, I know it's a widespread assumption in the West that as countries modernize, they also westernize. This is an illusion. It's an assumption…

— Martin Jacques

Our youths are constantly trying to learn everything the West has to teach, but what is newest in the West has existed in China…

— Sun Yat-sen

China was not at all what I expected it to be. I had an image of China as a very quaint and mysterious and…

— Rosemary Mahoney

I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from.

— Patrice O'Neal

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

— Lin Yutang

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

— Andre Vltchek

China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

— Charles de Gaulle