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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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Nowadays Christians appear to treat prayer as a means to accomplish their aims and ideas. If they possessed just a little deeper…
— Watchman Nee
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One can be a great artist without being a great technician. There have been many famous ballet stars who did not have…
— Unknown Author
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Word is murder of a thing, not only in the elementary sense of implying its absence - by naming a thing, we…
— Slavoj Žižek
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The first - the most obvious test of a true social entrepreneur - is are they possessed, really possessed by an idea.
— Bill Drayton
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You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power…
— Norman Vincent Peale
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Words were all he knew; they possessed and overwhelmed him, as if they were a thousand white cats with whom he shared…
— Mark Helprin
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Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald
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How was it possible to be afraid and in love... The two things did not go together. How was it possible to…
— Patricia Highsmith
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Silence fell between them, as tangible as the dark tree shadows that fell across their laps and that now seemed to rest…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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For 200 years, the dominant powers have also been the colonial powers: the European countries, the U.S. and Japan. They have never…
— Martin Jacques
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Their humble dwellings were of their own rearing; it was they themselves who had broken in their little fields; from time immemorial,…
— Hugh Miller
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