Death Quote by Niall Ferguson

“Chinese naval activity, for instance, was aborted after Zheng He’s last voyage, probably as a result of”

— Felipe Fernández-Armesto

“I should like to know if he has sunk a frigate, alone, with a Fleur-de-Nuit on his back; and as for distinction, my ancestors…

— Naomi Novik

“No ship can out sail death”

— Mark Twaid

The night I sailed for China, March 3, 1893, my life, on the human side, was broken, and it never was mended again. But…

— Amy Carmichael

“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

“China’s Dragon Boat Festival in June honors Qu Yuan, an official who drowned himself in 278 B.C. to protest corruption in the Spring and…

— Gordon G. Chang

“Out of a fired ship, which by no way But drowning could be rescued from the flame, Some men leap'd forth, and ever as…

— John Donne

“Their activities reached a peak in the early years of the nineteenth century, when a community of around forty thousand pirates with some four…

— David Cordingly

“Hong’s message fired the imagination of millions of desperate Chinese, who were shaken by China’s defeats in the Opium Wars and by the coming…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“He found himself in the strange predicament all sailors share: essentially he belonged neither to the land nor to the sea. Possibly a man…

— Yukio Mishima

“Speaking to a foreigner was the dream of every student, and my opportunity came at last. When I got back from my trip down…

— Jung Chang

“During the Cultural Revolution, Chinese lived and died by their class backgrounds. They boasted about ancestors who had starved to death. But if a…

— Jan Wong