British passion for Chinese tea was unstoppable, but the Chinese had no desire for our offerings, however much we tried to sell them woolen clothes or cutlery.
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Related We had a very generous proposal for the Chinese but it was not generous enough for them, ROB PORTMAN How about this? Hong Kong had been appropriated by British drug pushers in the 1840s. We wanted Chin... DAVID MITCHELL Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the Brit... ROBERT TROUT We need, and we can, develop markets for our coca. China is particularly important. The Chinese like... LEONILDA ZURITA This Chinese New Year...we have had record 'sell out' crowds. BILL ERNEST The Chinese say it's better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one. KHALED HOSSEINI no 'secret' or 'classified' information was ever discussed with the Chinese or included in any repor... BERNARD SCHWARTZ Both of us (US and Japan) had discussions with the Chinese host. Chinese host tried to put forward s... CHRISTOPHER HILL Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show les... ZIYI ZHANG For Chinese refineries, every time they sell a ton of gasoline or diesel, they lose 1,000 RMB. The w... MA SHANG I first tried to sell them with no pockets for $3, and they didn't sell. HAYDEN ALLRED Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence ... PANKAJ MISHRA Japanese Americans operated it for many, many years. There was a little consternation in the communi... ALLEN OKAMOTO The Chinese Constitution guarantees freedom of religion for Chinese citizens. KONG QUAN We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a let... DAVID LETTERMAN They have a much better work ethic, ... In China there's no Chinese Idol show, no chance for instant... CATHERINE ROBERTS We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our count... PEARL BUCK We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our count... PEARL S. BUCK No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chine... STEVE FORBES No more turning a blind eye to Chinese spies in our nuclear labs. No more keeping silent about Chine... STEVE FORBES I like Chinese New Year and its traditions for the Chinese. CHARLOTTE YOUNG Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to ... MARY JO PUTNEY Stunted varieties were generally chosen, particularly if they had the side branches opposite or regu... ROBERT FORTUNE We can all agree that tea is good for the body. However, tea is very good for our hair too. MONICA MILLNER We inadvertently bombed the Chinese Embassy. But Clinton now is working very hard. He has sent a let... DAVID LETTERMAN The first batch of product from the Chinese supplier was fine. The second batch, however, was not. PHILIP TOY His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no... OSCAR WILDE We send missionaries to China so the Chinese can get to heaven, but we won't let them into our c... PEARL S. BUCK Now the British are coming. I think Cameron should ask the Chinese government not to make people ... AI WEIWEI But now all of a sudden some idiots in Taiwan start to say that they are not Chinese. Their grand pa... ALEX CHIU Travel provided many interesting experiences, but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that ... ERIC ALLIN CORNELL We keep waiting for (the Chinese) to break through. Maybe they're waiting for surprising us at the 2... DAVE SALO It's time for a British boss, somebody who understands our passion, belief and commitment. There's n... DAVE RICHARDS We ask our companies to restructure; we ask employees to work more for less money because there is o... EMMANUEL MACRON The Chinese word for "crisis" contains two characters. One of them means "opportunity". UNKNOWN We do not have influence or leverage to convince the Chinese to change their regulation or refrain f... JACK KRUMHOLTZ The Chinese culture belongs not only to the Chinese but also to the whole world. JINATO HU It was Chinese music. I couldn't understand it, but it had a good beat to it. RAY ALLEN Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they th... JET LI It is outrageous to think that if you are on the side of freedom for the Chinese people and opposed ... CHRISTOPHER COX All the Chinese people Richard had ever met had been sophisticated urbanites, so he had been half ex... NEAL STEPHENSON I spent some time at a university for traditional Chinese medicine. There's a resurgence of peop... INDRA NOOYI We will conduct all-year travel promotions for Chinese customers. CHANAKA OLAGAMA The Russians held the line at the beginning. But as they get deeper in with the Chinese, they are fi... JAMES MULVENON But when they start to think the Chinese are a threat to them it makes it a very serious thing. The ... MP JOSES TUHANUKU No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even w... HU SHIH It's not easy for Chinese actors to do foreign films, and it's not easy for foreign actors t... ZHOU XUN I'm fascinated by historical fashion, and I like to live in the past slightly. If I could walk a... KATE WILLIAMS If we expose the Chinese to our freedoms, it may create a greater hunger for democracy, reform and l... GARY LOCKE Chinese learning is an internal learning, but Western learning is an external one; Chinese learning ... ZHANG ZHIDONG My children speak very good Chinese, and they translate for our American friends. WENDI DENG MURDOCH That's clearly an important thing for us. The Chinese government is a major customer of software. We... EMERY SIMON I was a hyperactive kid, and it took awhile for me to find the right teacher. My master was a Shaoli... DANIEL WU Men grow old, pearls grow yellow, there is no cure for it. -Chinese proverb. CHINESE PROVERB I have had no contact with the Chinese government. I only work with journalists. EDWARD SNOWDEN No one's ever going to sell it as well or with as much passion as you, the creator of the product, MICHAEL CIMINO Red gave us a choice. If we came up (to Boston) Sunday, we could eat Chinese. If we came up Monday, ... ALAN COHEN Our nation is built upon a history of immigration, dating back to our first pioneers, the Pilgrims. ... AMI BERA The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need ... ZHENG BIJIAN There was too little space for their own—and they guarded their own as all Chinese had done from t... ROBERT LUDLUM There should be no problem, as we no longer have shrimp imports from China. But maybe in early 2005 ... 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KATIE LEE Laotian students are treated equally to other Chinese students - we pay the same tuition fees as the... DONGLING YANG ...and then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's de... MORDECAI RICHLER I'm really happy for you. I'm really happy for Chinese audiences. I'm among them. I'm here as a chee... ANG LEE I was doing my job. I'm a Chinese, and I had to do whatever was needed. LONG QIMING Because [the Chinese] see this all as a conspiracy. They see all this as if he is here just to embar... LODI GYARI I had always thought that I would do something that was connected to music as a career, or possibly ... CHARLES SOULE Japanese treatment of Chinese and Allied citizens whom they captured, particularly if they suspected... BERNARD WASSERSTEIN For most of us, it's a time for us to get together and talk about our past, present and future. The ... FENG NIU For those whose lives have been turned upside down by Chinese drywall, we're trying to give them... TED DEUTCH Both Chinese and American governments have put out reports but neither of them had objective comment... XU ZHIYONG I really want our store to be the place for people interested in jade articles and traditional Chine... YE LING Our Western press soldiers from The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The Economist, etc. (often ... THORSTEN J. PATTBERG China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride i... EVAN OSNOS The real wars were between the Japanese and the Germans, the British and the Americans, and the diff... BERNARD WASSERSTEIN but the rising Chinese one. KURT CAMPBELL Chinatown is the center of gravity for the Chinese community. ALVIN WONG Chinese people today have strong demand for culture, but we need effective supply, and China needs i... WANG JIANLIN There are a few Chinese smuggled in over the borders of British Columbia on the north and Mexico on ... DENIS KEARNEY The Chinese are no slouches when it comes to capitalism. PATRICIA MARX By adopting the 'free trade,' or British, system, we place ourselves side by side with the m... HENRY CHARLES CAREY I know of no concessions (the Chinese) have owned up to. BYRON DORGAN If the Chinese think the embargo problem in Europe is creating leverage for them over here, it's not... LLOYD WOOD When you think after 25 years of Mao, Chinese people had no idea about western music or even western... JEAN-MICHEL JARRE Right after September 11, 2001, there weren't really any blogs in China, but there were a lot of... REBECCA MACKINNON When I was a little girl, if I didn't eat my soup, my mother would say, 'You have to think o... DIANE VON FURSTENBERG Whether it's Baidu or Chinese versions of YouTube or Sina or Sohu, Chinese Internet sites are ge... REBECCA MACKINNON We are looking forward to opening of direct flights with major Chinese cities, ... The direct flight... MWAI KIBAKI Some people today want to see a quick fix to the trade imbalance. And if there was one, believe us, ... DENNIS WILDER We want to help U.S. entrepreneurs, small business owners, and brands and companies of all sizes sel... JACK MA The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past se... CHARLES BASS It's been a long time since I had a Chinese-language movie show in the Mainland, but everyone still ... CHOW YUN-FAT
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