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The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family.
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For 200 years, the West has been so dominant in the world that it's not really needed to understand other cultures, other…
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We still insist, by and large, in thinking that we can understand China by simply drawing on Western experience, looking at it…
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Stuart Hall was an utterly unique figure. Although he arrived at the age of 19 from Jamaica and spent the rest of…
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The era when the United States was the dominant global power is steadily coming to an end, and it must find a…
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It remains to be seen whether the more optimistic scenario for Sino-American relations can be realised. Much rests on the shoulders of…
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Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West…
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China is, indeed, in so many ways, not like the West. It is not even primarily a nation state but a civilisation…
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More than 90% of Chinese believe themselves to be Han. Of course, such a vast population is derived from countless different races,…
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There are a host of ethnic minorities in China, but they often have a weak sense of identity and are relatively small…
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The two ethnic groups that remain fundamentally different from the Han Chinese - in terms of history, culture, language, religion and physical…
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The Chinese state is constructed in an entirely different way from western states. Unlike European states, for over a millennium the Chinese…
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Worm or beetle - drought or tempest - on a farmer's land may fall, Each is loaded full o' ruin, but a…
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I have my own views about Nature's methods, though I feel that it is rather like a beetle giving his
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A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beetle, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus, and microbe.
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After the planet becomes theirs, many millions of years will have to pass before a beetle particularly loved by God, at the…
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There is no virtue in being uncritical; nor is it a habit to which the young are given. But criticism is only…
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Another British study discovered that average eight-year-olds were better able to identify characters from the Japanese card trading game Pokemon than native…
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I discovered that I never really used Helvetica but I like to look at it. I like the VW beetle, too, although…
— Stefan Sagmeister
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When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of the globe, he doesn't realize that the track he has covered is curved.…
— Albert Einstein
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I know when I was a kid I ate a beetle. I ate a beetle because I thought it was licorice.
— Karl Pilkington
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In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting,…
— E. O. Wilson
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Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
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SCARABAEUS, n. The sacred beetle of the ancient Egyptians, allied to our familiar "tumble-bug." It was supposed to symbolize immortality, the fact…
— Ambrose Bierce
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