Book Quote by Cai Guo-Qiang

My mother is an immigrant from China, and she filled my head with stories about ghosts and fighting monks in China, so the world…

— Tess Gerritsen

China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with…

— Abigail Washburn

It made me think about a whole area of human activity that was not really a concern to me before that, because I was…

— Ron Silver

“He didn't know what he was anymore – not truly Chinese, for he had spent too long in the West, adopted too many Western…

— Dominique Wilson

In my own art, I try to use my personal voice and effort to enable some Chinese people to see the possibilities of another…

— Cai Guo-Qiang

In February of this year I returned to China to research my next book. The authorities know about the novels of mine that have…

— Ma Jian

After my mother died, I lived with relatives. Reading was a means of escaping into other worlds, as photography, much later, was to become.

— Stuart Franklin

For many years I hoped to have an exhibition in China, because of my family connection.

— Michael Craig-Martin

Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I…

— Amy Plum

My grandmother's apartment had significance for me, even as a child, and I was fascinated by that world that was disappearing.

— Arnon Goldfinger

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy…

— Tess Gerritsen

Chinese people of my parents' generation who lived through the Cultural Revolution knew so much of death at such a young age, and the…

— Jenny Zhang