{"quotes":[{"text":"Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!","author":"Gerry Abbey","tags":["asia","drinking","inspirational","memoir","southeast-asia","taiwan","teachers","teaching","travel","travel-writing","writing"],"id":4173,"author_id":"Gerry+Abbey"},{"text":"Minding his own business had been his motto living in a strange foreign country with a world-recognized social issue of failing morals.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["asia","crime","criminal-city","dangerous-city","dangerous-place","expat","expat","experience","failing-moral","gangs","gangster","japan","japanese-gang","life-advice","living-alone","living-in-foreign-country","maffia","minding-own-business","moral","traveler","war-zone","white-man-and-the-pachinko-girl","world-traveler"],"id":15567,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"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, Asian improvements and adaptations of current (twentieth- to twenty-first-century) Western-developed technology are taken as further signs of lack of creativity.","author":"Peter A. Lorge","tags":["asia","china","eurocentrism","europe","historiography","history","technology"],"id":20172,"author_id":"Peter+A.+Lorge"},{"text":"There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.","author":"Gerry Abbey","tags":["asia","inspirational","memoir","taiwan","travel","travel-writing"],"id":26829,"author_id":"Gerry+Abbey"},{"text":"There, in the Levantine crossroads between Europe, Africa, and Asia, the sovereign nation of Israel would exemplify what right looks like.","author":"James Mikołajczyk","tags":["africa","asia","europe","israel","levant","righteousness"],"id":41800,"author_id":"James+Miko%C5%82ajczyk"},{"text":"Faxian and Xuanzang might have been the first Chinese to travel to India, but sometimes it felt like I was the first.","author":"Hong Mei","tags":["asia","backpacking","calcutta","china","chinese","delhi","explorers","faxian","india","indian","kolkata","mumbai","travel","women","xuanzang","中国","印度","旅游"],"id":45125,"author_id":"Hong+Mei"},{"text":"The only difference between having an affair here and having an affair there was that the American men would always ended up losing half of his estates over a woman he was infatuated just as much as the next tramp who would come his way, while Japanese men would only earn more respect from their subordinates through the possession of much younger women, as a sign of prowess and affluence, while their wives at home, as if there were rule books distributed nationally on the “proper” marriage etiquette for all young Japanese women to read before they enter into the matrimony, would turn a blind eye on their disloyalty quietly.","author":"Vann Chow","tags":["affair","american-culture","asia","asian","asian-culture","boyfriend","cultural-difference","disloyal","disloyalty","girlfriend","immoral","japan","love","love-affair","marriage","matrimony","men-and-women","morality","morals","not-loyal","office-romance","relationship","sarcastic","social-moral","wedding","women-and-men"],"id":50206,"author_id":"Vann+Chow"},{"text":"A block of blood should not have the word 'cake' after it...They might as well say 'shite gateau.","author":"Karl Pilkington","tags":["abroad","asia","food","foreign"],"id":53803,"author_id":"Karl+Pilkington"},{"text":"Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act which deprived a whole nation of arms as the blackest.","author":"Mahatma Gandhi","tags":["armies","asia","conquest","england","europe","great-britain","history","india","strategies","uk","war","weapons"],"id":55602,"author_id":"Mahatma+Gandhi"},{"text":"It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.","author":"Gerry Abbey","tags":["asia","drinking","memoir","taiwan","teachers","teaching","travel","travel-writing"],"id":61850,"author_id":"Gerry+Abbey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":50,"pages":5,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}