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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

When I was writing stories about Chinese American characters in my fiction classes, I'd get comments like, 'You should consider writing more universal stories.'…

— Jenny Zhang

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

Let's stop reflexively comparing Chinese writers to Chinese writers, Indian writers to Indian writers, black writers to black writers. Let's focus on the writing…

— Celeste Ng

I have worked out that I am virtually Chinese, because everything I own is from China.

— Sean Lock

I am Chinese - it doesn't matter what other people say.

— Gong Li

I'm not Chinese, but both of my parents were born in Iran; my brother and I were the first ones born here. First in…

— Nahnatchka Khan

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

— Charles de Lint

There's this long history of colonialism and the colonial gaze when applied to matters related to China. So a lot of conceptions about China…

— Ken Liu

I think ethnic and regional labels are insulting to writers and really put restrictions on them. People don't think your work is quite as…

— James Welch

There's inherent cultural imbalance whenever you're translating from Chinese to English. Educated Chinese readers are expected not only to know about all the Chinese…

— Ken Liu

When you arrive in China nowadays, one of the first things you note is the emphasis placed on you, a non-Chinese person, being an…

— Howard W. French