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Chinese artists have been subversive over thousands of years, taking what they think of the government and embedding it in their art. There might be censorship of not going as far as they might. Amy Tan

Art Government Censorship Think Thousands Thousands Of Years Taking Over Been Years Going Artists As Far As Chinese Subversive Might Far

Until the age of five, my parents spoke to me in Chinese or a combination of Chinese and English, but they didn't force me to speak Mandarin. In retrospect, this was sad, because they believed that my chance of doing well in America hinged on my fluency in English. Later, as an adult, I wanted to learn Chinese. Amy Tan

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It's hard to be a minority. People look at you a different way, like you don't belong, and I don't think many people realize just how difficult it is to live as a minority. Where I come from, we learn to tolerate one another. Whether one is of Chinese descent or Malay descent, what matters is we're part of the same country, the same world. Andrea Hirata

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It is an honor to open in New York City and to have the opportunity to serve and share our family's version of American Chinese food and hospitality. New York City deeply influenced my passion for food and service, and it feels good to be back. Andrew Cherng

Service Good Food Family Opportunity Passion Honor Back Our City Hospitality Open Share Feels New Version American York New York New York City Influenced Chinese Chinese Food Serve Deeply

I start by using Chinese and many of the sounds of other languages are similar. Andy Lau

Other Similar Sounds Chinese Languages Many Using Start

For example, in Malay, there are pronunciations that are similar to Chinese. Andy Lau

Example Similar For Example Chinese

On a Chinese film you just give orders, no one questions you. Here, you have to convince people, you have to tell them why you want to do it a certain way, and they argue with you. Democracy. Ang Lee

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures. Ang Lee

Character Me Book Strong Thought First Few Think Ways Strong Female Classic Martial Martial Arts Struck Pick Abundant Female Female Character Very Textures Arts Chinese Interesting Film

I look at American movies, the big muscles, and try to apply that to Chinese film-making. Ang Lee

Try Big Look American Chinese Movies American Movies Apply Muscles Film-Making

The call to rein in globalization reflects a belief that it has eliminated jobs in the West, sending them East and South. But the biggest threat to traditional jobs is not Chinese or Mexican; it is a robot. Angus Deaton

Robot East Jobs Threat Globalization Call Traditional West South Mexican Reflects Sending Biggest Chinese Them Belief Rein Eliminated

There are a lot of Chinese comics, but the Chinese comics tend to be more historical and conservative. Japanese culture, just the comics are amazing. They're like films: very few words; they move so much in these books with hundreds of pages. Ann Nocenti

So far we have not convinced the Chinese authorities. My own brother was refused a visa on what was probably my last chance of seeing him when he was going around the world on a tour. Scott Nearing was similarly refused. Anna Louise Strong

At the point when I wanted to become a designer, I didn't think about, 'Oh, but I'm a woman,' just like didn't think about like, well, 'I'm Chinese' or that 'I'm in Michigan.' You know, none of those things were obstacles to me. I just had this idea that this is what I had to do. Anna Sui

I don't feel that Chinese designers have reached the level of prominence that European or American designers have, but we've noticed in fashion schools in the U.S. and in England and we've seen how much the makeup of the students in the classes have changed there in the last five to 10 years. Anna Wintour

Fashion Seen Changed Prominence Classes Students Feel Reached Schools Makeup How How Much Years Five American Chinese Much Noticed England European Level Designers Last

The Chinese government does not like people betting against the yuan. Anthony Scaramucci

Government People Betting Like Does Against Chinese Chinese Government Yuan

The conceptual artist Ai WeiWei illustrates the schizoid society that rapid change has produced - sometimes by reassembling Ming-style furniture into absurd and useless arrangements, or by carefully painting and antiquing a Coca-Cola logo on an ancient Chinese pot. Arne Glimcher

Change Sometimes AI Painting Society Carefully Furniture Ancient Rapid Pot Absurd Conceptual Arrangements Artist Chinese Produced Useless Coca-Cola Illustrate

In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism. Arne Glimcher

Art World AI First Style Cynical Group Emergence Contemporary Reaction Known Became Witnessed Were Began Art World Artists Establish Movement Realism Against Realist Chinese Social Among Early Early 1990s

When Nixon opened the door to China in the early 1970s, Chinese artists got their first view of the West. Suddenly five centuries of Western art lay before them as a stylistic smorgasbord. Chinese artists could reinterpret it out of admiration or try to replace it. They choose the former. Arne Glimcher

Art Try First Before Nixon Out Admiration Lay Could Opened Got Stylistic West Western Replace Five Artists Door China Former Chinese Them Centuries View Choose Suddenly Early

The emphasis of my government is to take advantage from the Chinese experience in the fields of agriculture, fisheries, energy, infrastructure, development, health and high efficiency irrigation. Asif Ali Zardari

Government Health Experience Agriculture Take Advantage Energy High Take Advantage Emphasis Development Efficiency Irrigation Chinese Fields Infrastructure

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