Chinese Quote by Anonymous

It is confusing, because in this culture we really don't have anything that corresponds to geisha.

— Arthur Golden

From my opinion, 'geisha' means a woman skilled in the arts, like dancing, singing and playing musical instruments,.

— Zhang Ziyi

We don't become geisha because we want our lives to be happy; we become geisha because we have no choice.

— Arthur Golden

This and the small sample size inevitably leads to stereotypes - sweeping family sagas from India, 'lush' colonial romances from South-East Asia. Mother and…

— Deborah Smith

I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?"…

— William Gibson

The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.

— Morinosuke Kawaguchi

There's a reason why the cultures of so many Chinatowns around the world in some ways are more Chinese. They've held onto older Chinese…

— Lulu Wang

If you go to Tokyo, I think it becomes very obvious that there's this almost seamless mixture of popular culture and Japanese traditional culture.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is…

— Alain Ducasse

The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world.

— Anonymous

I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man…

— Arthur Golden

I think that the Japanese culture is one of the very few cultures left that is its own entity. They're just so traditional and…

— Toni Collette