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“Because of the Chinese culture of obedience, you don't ask questions... You follow and obey.”

Culture Asks Chinese Obedience Chinese Culture

Author:Bai Ling

“My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.”

People World Wells Country Shows Culture Literature Unique Folks Chinese Customs World Literature

Author:Mo Yan

“I write on sacred stories, symbols and rituals of all cultures - European, American and Chinese - but my audiences, typically, like me to focus on India.”

Writing Stories Culture Audience Focus India Sacred Like Me Symbols Chinese Ritual

Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

“The question, then, for Western companies, as much as for Western governments, is to decide whose side they are on: the Chinese officials who like to define their culture in a paternalistic, authoritarian way, or the large number of Chinese who have their own ideas about freedom.”

Way Ideas Government Culture Sides Numbers Company Western Chinese Officials Large Numbers

Author:Ian Buruma

“The mystery school continued throughout the greater Egyptian civilization, which was the second age of humankind and later on into the third age of humankind when the Indian, Chinese, Japanese and Tibetan high cultures flourished”

Age School Culture Greater Mystery Civilization Thirds Ancient Chinese Indian Humankind Tibetan Egyptian Ancient Egypt Atlantis Egyptian Civilization

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs innovative cultural products.”

People Needs Today Culture Strong Products Demand China Chinese Innovative

Author:Wang Jianlin

“Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to control you even after theyre dead.”

Way Culture Parent Religious Worship Ethics Chinese Code Ancestor Confucianism Chinese Culture Code Of Ethics Ancestor Worship

Author:David Henry Hwang

“Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly Chinese, but accepting other cultures and other races.”

Wells Has Beens Ideas Culture Strong Race Accepting Emotional Safe Chinese Singapore Swamps Other Cultures Safe Places Accepting Others Strong Emotional

Author:Nicolas Berggruen

“Its a wonderful thing to see a segment of our population that is open and eager to learn more about Chinese culture. It has filtered into the mainstream. You see credit-card ads on TV with white couples and Chinese babies.”

Culture White Wonderful Tvs Baby Couple Population Credit Cards Chinese Ads Mainstream Wonderful Things Credit Card Chinese Culture

Author:Iris Chang

“I like to say, Chop sueys the biggest culinary joke that one culture has ever played on another, because chop suey, if you translate into Chinese, means tsap sui, which, if you translate back, means odds and ends.”

Ifs Mean Ends Culture Jokes Chinese Culinary Odds Translate Odds And Ends

Author:Jennifer Lee

“I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked. Because they believe in the politics of contention, of opposition. But because the culture was such that the populace sought a practical way out of their difficulties, therefore it has worked.”

Way Believe Said Different Culture Difficulty Practicals Occasions Chinese Opposition Singapore Contention

Author:Lee Kuan Yew

“Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide. Modest, funny, curious, and wide open to the world, he gives us perceptive glimpses of Chinese culture, ancient to contemporary, and into what it means to be a poet, both now and twelve centuries ago. The account of his quest to find Han Shan's cave is a delight from beginning to end.”