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“As a nationalist and a communist, Kim Taejun presented a subversive reading of The Story of Hong Gildong, in which he portrayed the purported…

— Heo Gyun

“He didn't know what he was anymore – not truly Chinese, for he had spent too long in the West, adopted too many Western…

— Dominique Wilson

“Suddenly there appeared a general, with a small following, who cried out, “Cai Mao and Zhang Yun are two traitors. The princely Liu Bei…

— Luo Guanzhong

“My daughter Mei-Ying prefers to spend her time riding and practicing Shaolin fighting. No man will marry a woman who can toss him to…

— Sandy Fussell

“...and Pao Yi was reminded that the inclination of almost every living thing is to cling on, to remain where it is, but that…

— Rose Tremain

“And when my father would tell me I would say to him, ‘Get to that lake—get my mother there—don’t let it happen again, not…

— John Steinbeck

“A ruler who failed to manage China’s waters didn’t just risk social decay. He exposed himself to the charge that heaven itself had lost…

— Philip Ball

“Half contemptuously, American military men spoke of “elusive” Lin Piao, and of the “poet” Mao Tse-tung. Mao Tse-tung, Premier of China, had already revealed…

— T.R. Fehrenbach

“Ox, at an early age a Chinese genius gazes at the path that lies ahead and reaches for a wine jar," Master Li said.…

— Barry Hughart

“I should write a serious book on China. If I did that and put in a lot of subtext about love and maybe compared…

— Jesse James Freeman

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what…

— Jet Li

“That must be Dong Zhuo!” cried Zhang Fei. “What’s the use of pursuing Lu Bu? Better seize the chief villain and so eradicate the…

— Luo Guanzhong