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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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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
— Confucius
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Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act…
— Gautama Buddha
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Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.
— Paulo Coelho
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Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
— Laozi
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine…
— Laozi
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
— Moliere
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
— Walter Scott
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If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
— Moliere
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Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at…
— Jonathan Sacks
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