Martin Jacques Quotes

What is China but a people and their stories?

The great quality of the 'Three Kingdoms' is that it seems to encapsulate and portray every facet of the Chinese personality.

I am an American, steeped in American values. But I know on an emotional level what it means to be of the Chinese culture.

I have a deep love for the Chinese people.

I am writing a sequel to The Touch because I want to further explore the Chinese question that I have raised. There will be more about that in a sequel.

I'm very proud I'm Chinese and represent the Chinese community.

I need to talk about Chinese culture. We have deep, strong philosophy and culture. I want to share some information, tell the worldwide audience.

My works are Chinese literature, which is part of world literature. They show the life of Chinese people as well as the country's unique culture and folk customs.

I've been interested in China ever since I was a kid. When I was a kid, I grew up in San Francisco about a mile from China Beach.

I love the Chinese people.

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

The reason why China forecasting has such a poor track record is that Westerners constantly invoke the model and experience of the West to explain China, and it is a false prophet. Until we start trying to understand China on its own terms, rather than as a Western-style nation in the making, we will continue to get it wrong.

When the British-Malaysian photographer Ian Teh first worked in China, more than a decade ago, he rendered it as a nation of people in Technicolor.

I always love China, especially the old China.

China was the worst place I've ever been in my life.

I have two sons in America, and all they care about in Chinese culture is Jackie Chan and Jet Li.

I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture.

Once I became interested in China, I flew to Beijing in 1996 to spend half a year studying Mandarin. The city stunned me.

China is a vast, disparate country; there is no alternative to strong central power.

China no longer has an ideology that makes any sense to them, but what they do have is great pride in the Chinese nation.

Confucius, who was born in the sixth century B.C., traditionally had a stature in China akin to that of Socrates in the West.

I do speak Mandarin, and I also relate to the hunger that China has for culture and architecture and style.

China is an old nation with a colourful history. Its booming economy has triggered an appetite and a curiosity around the world for its art and culture, one that continues to grow. I can, however, tell people that it is a show with no actor.

No one has ever understood China.