Dreams Quote by Mark Kurlansky

ASEM should build a new Silk Road to actively boost exchanges between these two civilizations in the new century so that countries in Asia…

— Jiang Zemin

During the tour of 'Circulations,' we spent a lot of time in Canadian Chinatowns. I was fascinated by the idea that you can cross…

— Robert Lepage

Historically, there had been many periods of Chinese Renaissance.

— Hu Shih

“The reasoning of the Ming and Qing states for opposing international trade is by now familiar: the fear of creative destruction.”

— Daron Acemoğlu

I wanted to explore what all this new-found wealth means for the different generations of Chinese who have to live together in this place…

— Kevin Kwan

“The Chinese people had invented the compass, paper, the printing press, gunpowder, the seismograph, the crossbow, and the umbrella; they had sailed to Africa…

— Peter Hessler

“smuggling was a roaring trade around here. Ships used to anchor off the coast and smugglers would transport the goods to the beach and…

— Paul Moxham

As I've written before, China's ability to be the assembly line to the world wasn't where its role in the global economy ended; it…

— Sarah Lacy

And when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water, and other great towns on dry land, and that straight and…

— Bernal Diaz del Castillo

“Railroads, in turn, were revolutionary in their social consequences. The concentrations of the world's populations along coasts and near rivers was reduced, as land…

— Thomas Sowell

“The fact remains, I was never meant to sell china. Only truly saintly men are cut out for that; the sort of men who…

— Guy Vanderhaeghe

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.

— Sidney Poitier