{"quotes":[{"text":"We never expressed this to each other in Chinese, because it wasn’t something said in Chinese culture; the emotions were too strong, the words too coarse, and besides, it was assumed that parents and children loved each other.","author":"Atom Yang","tags":["children","chinese","culture","emotions","family","love","parents"],"id":1168,"author_id":"Atom+Yang"},{"text":"The Chinese considered the moon to be yin, feminine and full of negative energy, as opposed to the sun that was yang and exemplified masculinity. I liked the moon, with its soft silver beams. It was at once elusive and filled with trickery, so that lost objects that had rolled into the crevices of a room were rarely found, and books read in its light seemed to contain all sorts of fanciful stories that were never there the next morning.","author":"Yangsze Choo","tags":["books","chinese","moon","sun"],"id":27351,"author_id":"Yangsze+Choo"},{"text":"Since the beginning of physics, symmetry considerations have provided us with an extremely powerful and useful tool in our effort to understand nature. Gradually they have become the backbone of our theoretical formulation of physical laws.","author":"Tsung-Dao Lee","tags":["beginning","china","chinese","laws-of-nature","nobel-laureate","physics","power","science","symmetry","theory"],"id":30802,"author_id":"Tsung-Dao+Lee"},{"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":"We set our own limits on love. Some of us bind our hearts like Chinese women bind their feet. The binding is painful at first but eventually you get used to it and the pain goes away. The saddest part of all is that by binding yourself to the choices you make, you forget that there was ever another way to live.","author":"Kate McGahan","tags":["bind","chinese","choice","containment","fear","fear-of-love","feet","heart","love","pain","resistance","self-imposed-limits","self-limiting-beliefs"],"id":46254,"author_id":"Kate+McGahan"},{"text":"Don’t read books!Don’t chant poems!When you read books your eyeballs wither awayleaving the bare sockets.When you chant poems your heart leaks out slowlywith each word.People say reading books is enjoyable.People say chanting poems is fun.But if your lips constantly make a soundlike an insect chirping in autumn,you will only turn into a haggard old man.And even if you don’t turn into a haggard old man,it’s annoying for others to have to hear you.It’s so much betterto close your eyes, sit in your study,lower the curtains, sweep the floor,burn incense.It’s beautiful to listen to the wind,listen to the rain,take a walk when you feel energetic,and when you’re tired go to sleep.","author":"Yang Wanli","tags":["12th-century","chinese","peaceful","poetry","zen"],"id":48506,"author_id":"Yang+Wanli"},{"text":"Shelves full of books are all around me. Opening the different volumes I take a look, and find the pages covered with writings in unknown scripts — tadpole traces, bird feet markings, twisted branches. And in my dream I am able to read them all, to make sense of everything despite its difficulty.","author":"Jonathan D. Spence","tags":["chinese","dream","history","reading"],"id":49947,"author_id":"Jonathan+D.+Spence"},{"text":"I intend to see that justice is done by presiding, in the manner of the omnipotent Walter Mitty, as chief justice of a tribunal trying the case of those plotting further advances for the Chinese characters on an international scale. Emulating the operatic Mikado's 'object all sublime... To let the punishment fit the crime,' I hand down the following dread decree:Anyone who believes Chinese characters to be a superior system of writing that can function as a universal script is condemned to complete the task of rendering the whole of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address into Singlish.","author":"John DeFrancis","tags":["characters","chinese","language","scripts","transcription"],"id":50887,"author_id":"John+DeFrancis"},{"text":"Because different cultures see a particular animal as representing a certain human virtue or vice, the use of animal imagery also allows for more colorful commentary on the human condition.","author":"Larry Herzberg","tags":["china","chinese","culture","language","proverbs","sayings"],"id":52574,"author_id":"Larry+Herzberg"},{"text":"Be content with what you have;rejoice in the way things are.When you realize there is nothing lacking,the whole world belongs to you.","author":"Lao Tzu","tags":["ancient","chinese","inspirational","lao-tzu","philosophical","philosophy","self-reflection","spiritual","wisdom"],"id":57406,"author_id":"Lao+Tzu"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":62,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}