I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.
Pound's translation of Chinese poetry was maybe the most important thing I read. Eliot a little bit later.
I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation.
This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.
So when I do Chinese cooking I mix everything together then the kids have to eat their vegetables. They won't have the patience to pick them out.
I look at American movies the big muscles and try to apply that to Chinese film-making.
I did learn Chinese kung-fu in a school for a short time but I couldn't afford to pay for long-term learning.
Travel provided many interesting experiences but perhaps the most useful lesson I learned was that I really had no proficiency for learning the thousands of characters of the written Chinese language.
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
The Chinese leadership hoped that the world would soon forget the Tiananmen Square massacre. Our job in Congress is to ensure that we never forget those who lost their lives in Tiananmen Square that day or the pro-democracy cause for which they fought.