After Quote by Eric Allin Cornell

I wanted to do something far from my intellectual and physical home, so I went to live in Beijing for eight months and took…

— Mira Sorvino

After university, I travelled through China for about two or three months in 1985. It was very much a closed-off country and no one…

— Hugh Dennis

In December of 1990, just before my eighth birthday, I left China for the United States. My father was a political dissident, and after…

— Leana S. Wen

I have been visiting China since 1995.

— Sanjaya Baru

I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works…

— Ma Jian

I lived in China for 9 years straight. I saw how my Chinese friends benefited and gained much more freedom to determine the course…

— Rebecca MacKinnon

When I was in Taiwan, I was taught in school that Taiwan is part of China.

— Alex Chiu

I've been going to China every year now for more than a decade.

— Paul Oakenfold

I did go to Beijing, with a two-year assignment. I stayed four years. And those four years were the most formative four years in…

— Dinesh Paliwal

After I came back [to China], there was still a long period of time when I felt I had nothing to do.

— Ai Weiwei

When I was in Taiwan, we were there for about 8 months, and I was 11 at the time, so it was definitely a…

— David Lambert

I majored in Chinese. I was never really good at Chinese but I really, really benefited from having been exposed to Asian philosophy early…

— Martha Beck