Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
A friend and me took the slowboat from Shanghai to Hong Kong in 1993. — Emily Maitlis Copy Share Image
I think that the exchange is very important. Before I did the exhibition in Shanghai, I was a judge for the John… — Michael Craig-Martin Copy Share Image
Seoul and Shanghai, Jaipur and Jakarta; shining skyscrapers, pricey hotels, traffic-jammed streets ablaze with neon - all were built atop a foundation… — Charles C. Mann Copy Share Image
When we started out, we were among the first. Beijing had no and Shanghai had very few large buildings. At that time,… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Chinese people have that superstitious fix - people always do feng shui when they are opening a shop; even the Hong Kong… — John Rocha Copy Share Image
Our company has only been active in Beijing and Shanghai, two very market-dominated cities. This was an advantage. Land is purchased here… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
Now we characterise Russian-Chinese relations as a strategic partnership, even a special strategic partnership. We have never had such a level of… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
The dream of empire died when Shanghai surrendered without a fight. Even at the age of 11 or 12, I knew that… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Human nature is eternal; therefore one who follows his nature keeps his original nature, in the end. — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
There were no museums or galleries in Shanghai, but I was very keen on art - I was always sketching and copying,… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
My mother has a very big family in Shanghai, so I have, like, almost 40 cousins, so we stayed together all the… — Wong Kar-wai Copy Share Image
The Chinese central government will slowly and steadily lose authority while regional armies [gain power]. The Western powers are going to take… — George Friedman Copy Share Image
“This is Unique !! Shopping malls working with one side of our needs, material satisfaction but here @ K11 there is a… — Baris Gencel Copy Share Image
Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or… — Nicholas Stern Copy Share Image
My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one,… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
If we could do high-speed rail in California just half a notch above what they've done on the Shanghai line in China,… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
You don't have to spend much time in Shanghai before you start to get all existential about the meaning of authenticity. Did… — Patricia Marx Copy Share Image
The fact of the matter is that fewer people in Tokyo are able to do business in English than in many other… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
I made 'Empire of the Sun' in Shanghai in the 1980s and want to come back one day to make a movie… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The Beijing Olympics and the Shanghai World Expo show just how much effort China is willing to spend to enter the global… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I only realised why I keep living in Shepperton when I returned to China. All the people who moved there had come… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
