CHINA

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1. Which I wish to remark,
   And my language is plain,
   That for ways that are dark
   And for tricks that are vain,
   The heathen Chinee is peculiar.—BRET HARTE, Plain Language from Truthful James
   

2. We are ruined by Chinese cheap labor.—BRET HARTE, Plain Language from Truthful James
   

3. You'll never plumb the Oriental mind,
   And if you did, it isn't worth the toil.—KIPLING, One Viceroy Resigns
   

4. In China the spiritual values have not been separated from the material values, but rather help man in a keener enjoyment of life as it falls to our lot. We live the life of the senses and the life of the spirit at the same moment and see no necessary conflict.—LIN YUTANG, My Country & My People
   

5. We [Chinese] never force salvation on anybody who does not come to ask for it. We have no gun-boats anyway, and even if we had, we would never care to go up the Thames or the Mississippi and shoot the English or the Americans into heaven against their will.—LIN YUTANG, My Country & My People
   

6. I do not believe in the myth of the "subtle Oriental": I am convinced that in a game of mutual deception an Englishman or an American can beat a Chinaman nine times out of ten.—BERTRAND RUSSELL
   

7. But owing to the fact that China became the leading State, and that the Chinese had before their eyes no example of another state equal to her, conceit, self-satisfaction and arrogance arose. All this entered into our flesh and blood, and we were transformed into a nation apart. We were our own teachers, as in all reconstruction we made use only of our own resources and strength, without resorting to foreign help.—SUN YAT-SEN, Memoirs of a Chinese Revolutionary