Chinese Quote by Yiyun Li Download Open image “It is a Chinese tradition that everyone has to be in everyone else's life.” — Yiyun Li ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Chinese Culture Life Tradition
The Chinese people have only family and clan solidarity; they do not have national spirit...they are just a heap of loose sand...Other men are… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Chinese people have only family and clan groups; there is no national spirit. Consequently, in spite of four hundred million people gathered together… — Sun Yat-sen Copy Share Image
The American culture is pursue your own happiness, follow your dreams. The Chinese side is sacrifice everything for your family; it's all about the… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in… — Larry Herzberg Copy Share Image
The Chinese view the state, not just as an intimate member of the family ... but as the head of the family. — Martin Jacques Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“China’s official identity is a multiethnic state where all peoples, beliefs, and traditions are equally respected. The problem with this story is that Han… — Ian Johnson Copy Share Image
I always thought that in modern history Chinese people are like a dish of sand, never really close together. But I think a dish… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful… — Xi Jinping Copy Share Image
Chinese people need to be aware of their present and ask, 'What's our culture? What can we bring to the world?' I don't think… — Ma Yansong Copy Share Image
“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
One easy mistake to make with the first novel is to expand the short story. Some things are better as a story; you cannot… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“sometimes Moran wondered if her chief merit was her willingness to serve as a human receptacle for details. Sympathy and admiration and surprise she… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
I always tell my students to go back after a hundred pages and rewrite from the beginning. It's really harder if you've already finished… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
Some people in China don't look at freedom of speech as an abstract ideal, but more as a means to an end. — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“It saddened her that Luo insisted on holding on to her as if they had started to share some vital organs during their twenty… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
To write about a struggle amidst the struggling: one must hope that the muddling will end someday. — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive? — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“His mother had always been a headstrong woman, and with her grayish-white mane and unsmiling face, she appeared as regal and intimidating as she… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
If China someday gains a more fair, just, and accountable system of government, it will be due to the hard work and efforts of… — Rebecca MacKinnon Copy Share Image
We can see nothing whatever of the soul unless it is visible in the expression of the countenance; one might call the faces at… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The Pink Panther wasn't shown to the press for reasons that soon became apparent when I saw it at a public performance. Two people… — Philip French Copy Share Image
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child.… — Ed Koch Copy Share Image
One thing that really interests me is-and it comes out of Chinese and Japanese painting-where you have a number of different kinds of space… — Mary Heilmann Copy Share Image
My Chinese zodiac is a dog. But I'm an exception because of how much I love cats. — Jason Wu Copy Share Image
