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Martin Jacques has 77 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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One of my goals is to have a base near mainland China. I think Hong Kong would be a good match for…
— Nicolas Cage
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A trip to the mainland was a big event and happened maybe once a year, although now you can get across in…
— Jeremy Irons
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The proof given by Wright, that non-adaptive differentiation will occur in small populations owing to "drift," or the chance fixation of some…
— Julian Huxley
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You cannot invade mainland United States. There would be a rifle behind each blade of grass.
— Isoroku Yamamoto
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I don't see America as a mainland, but as a sea, a big ocean. Sometimes a storm arises, a formidable current develops,…
— Jacques Maritain
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I am a vigilant monarchist. I want to see things evolve. The direction the monarchy seems to be moving in - towards…
— Andrew Motion
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On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that…
— Tom Robbins
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Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain…
— Margaret Thatcher
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During my lifetime most of the problems the world has faced have come, in one fashion or other, from mainland Europe, and…
— Margaret Thatcher
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It is really so nice here-country-busy-busy with so many different kinds of things-... I must say I feel far away in another…
— Georgia O'Keeffe
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If you are black, the only roads into the mainland of American life are through subservience, cowardice, and loss of manhood. These…
— Amiri Baraka
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I would love mainland Chinese to read my book. There is a Chinese translation which I worked on myself, published in Hong…
— Jung Chang
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