47 quotes found
“And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.”
“I drift like a cloud,Across these venerable eastern lands,A journey of unfathomable distances,An endless scroll of experiences...Lady Zhejiang here we must part,For the next province awaits my embr...”
“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”
“People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. Ive been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because its the best place to pick ideas. Just like Italy, Spain.. or ...”
“No, I am not imagining a book-burning, warmongering, anti-intellectual fascist regime in my plan, there is no place for re ghters who light up the Homers and Lady Murasakis and Cao Xueqins stashed...”
“Mee and Ow sat in the shade of a mango tree and were doing their make-up. Both of them wore gloves that reached all the way up to their elbows, to keep the tropical sun off their skins. They looked...”
“No wonder prostitution is so rampant in China, I mused as I watched the four girls watch us: why stand on your feet all day for slave wages when you can get rich on your back?”
“Never forget,' says Sugar Daddy, 'we are a nation built on sugar. It is our history and it is the source of our prosperity, now and in the future.'This is true. Our entire nation sits on reclaimed ...”
“She pulls me further down. More trapped souls reach out to us, dressed in clothes from decades past. The girl ignores them as we descend along the timeline decade by decade towards the birth of t...”
“The face of self-pity was universally understood.”
“Never Underestimate. Just as in any other negotiation, watching before acting is as important as listening before speaking. It's doubly important in China, however, where customs are time-honored a...”
“...the modern bias in contemporary Western scholarship (which has spread to the rest of the world as well) insists upon focusing all attention on the formation of the modern world and modernity. By...”
“Perhaps the strangest manifestation of the Eurocentric approach to the history of military technology is ... the attempt to discern fundamental cultural roots in the distant past that have resulted...”
“Technology has become the Wests main prop to its claims of inherent superiority over the non-West, and the reason why the non-West should adopt Western culture. If advanced technology is particular...”
“... the very appearance of the word oriental as a serious geographic or cultural term triggers alarm bells for any American academic. The late Edward Saids Orientalism argued that the word oriental...”
“China failed to maintain its technological lead, and a similar failure throughout Asia to take advantage of the early exposure to that head start transformed precocity into a false dawn. Perversely...”
“It is a truism, easily forgotten, that the West, in its modern phase, has not stood still. Also easily forgotten is the fact that "the West" is a relative concept only. Without an "East" or a "non-...”
“Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.”
“Meandering cows, tenacious bicyclers, belching taxis, rickshaws, fearless pedestrians and the occasional mobile cigarette and sweets stand all fought our taxi for room on the narrow two-lane road t...”
“Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.”
