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“I have taken a different approach. One that I hope is more easily accessible to the reader’s emotional imagination, though less analytically systematic. I…

— Mark Elvin

At the beginning of my career as a writer, I felt I knew nothing of Chinese culture. I was writing about emotional confusion with…

— Amy Tan

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

I think a lot of us go through a period where we feel like outsiders, and deal with that by wishing we were insiders.…

— Gene Luen Yang

It's incredibly rewarding to have people come up to me at readings and say, 'I'm not Chinese, but this is the relationship I have…

— Celeste Ng

I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out.

— Anonymous

I never felt like a Chinese citizen because I was pushed away at a very young age. My father, a writer, was a national…

— Ai Weiwei

I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he…

— Rain

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal…

— Eden Robinson

Even though everybody who looked at me would call me a Chinese artist, that's the 1980s. New York in the '80s was not so…

— Ai Weiwei

Of course, people will call you an old artist or young artist, which is just a character of you. But personally, I don't think…

— Ai Weiwei

Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.

— Patrick Chan