Deng Xiaoping Quote by Mark Elvin

“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

“Western thought has emphasized individual action, permanent character traits, formal logic, and clearly delineated categories. For an even longer period, Asian thought has emphasized…

— David Brooks

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

“‎The Chinese believe in constant change, but with things always moving back to some prior state. They pay attention to a wide range of…

— Richard E. Nisbett

“Asian philosophy and culture never endured an intellectual upheaval like the Cartesian split of mind and body that brought the so-called Enlightenment to the…

— Polly Young-Eisendrath

“The contrast is striking,” writes Michael Harris Bond, a cross-cultural psychologist who focuses on China. “The Americans emphasize sociability and prize those attributes that…

— Susan Cain

“There are many things which cannot be imagined,” the Chinese say, “but there is nothing which may not happen.”

— Gordon G. Chang

But Chinese civilization has the overpowering beauty of the wholly other, and only the wholly other can inspire the deepest love and the profoundest…

— Joseph Needham

It's going to be impossible in the 21st century for anyone to think about anything without a Chinese aspect.

— David Tang

“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

“Such indirection and ambivalence typify the politics of Wong's work. He's not in any conventional sense an ideological filmmaker. "It's never been my intention,"…

— Wong Kar Wai, John Powers

If you look at ancient Chinese culture, and depictions of it, the relationship between people and nature was very different. It almost felt as…

— Jia Zhangke