Zhu Zhu - In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but

In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.

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Radish, Christina. "Zhu Zhu Talks 'Marco Polo', Playing the Blue Princess, and More." Collider, Valnet Inc., 14 Dec. 2014.

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Sanjaya Baru

I have been visiting China since 1995.

John Fusco

It all goes back to 'Wow, I never knew this about Marco Polo.' This is an incredible story and an incredible character, and such a rich world of Mongolian and Chinese culture.

John Fusco

I feel that Marco Polo has really been misrepresented - has never really gotten his due.

Evan Osnos

Beijing has a glut of charming and traditional or brash and luxurious places to stay.

Anthony Bourdain

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There's a lot of places left to go.

Dalai Lama

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

John Fusco

He was an Italian kid traveling in China, and I'm of Italian decent with a fascination for China. So, I always felt this connection to him and lived vicariously through the travels of Marco Polo.

Katie Hoff

My boyfriend is not a swimmer!

John Fusco

At a young age, when I was fascinated with China, I read 'The Travels of Marco Polo' and learned about this exciting, dramatic world he captured and reported on. He's so little known, but yet this mythology has survived that's so misrepresentative of his story.

John Fusco

I grew up with a fascination with Marco Polo. I had this unlikely interest in the East as a young man, and you can't really read about Chinese history and philosophy without encountering him at every turn.

Andrew Lau

Beijing is my favorite city in China.

Evan Osnos

Walking, it turns out, is a sublime way to get to know people in China. They're used to meeting strangers on the road. Many here understand what it feels like to walk a long way.

Michael Leunig

Today, people call each other 'guys' - this derives from Guy Fawkes, the bomb-making terrorist. No greater tribute has ever been paid to anyone in the history of politics.

Charles McCarry

China, hidden and mysterious, has always interested me.

John Payton Davies

No one has ever understood China.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

We short history; the Chinese long history.

Henry A. Kissinger

The duration and scale of the Chinese past allow Chinese leaders to use the mantle of an almost limitless history to evoke a certain modesty in their opposite number.

Lin Yutang

While in the West, the insane are so many that they are put in an asylum, in China the insane are so unusual that we worship them, as anybody who has a knowledge of Chinese literature will testify.

Bertrand Russell

The Chinese are a great nation, incapable of permanent suppression by foreigners. They will not consent to adopt our vices in order to acquire military strength; but they are willing to adopt our virtues in order to advance in wisdom. I think they are the only people in the world who quite genuinely believe that wisdom is more precious than rubies. That is why the West regards them as uncivilized.

3rd Earl Russell of Kingston. At the time China was one of the poorest nations on earth, with a series of feeble politicians and leaders fighting each other for the ability to rob the people. Their ancient science and virtues had been forgotten and it was thought of by the West and Asians alike as a failed state. However, Russell observed this one characteristic that could be so important when the rest of the world was learning more and more about everything from science to history. The search for wisdom from wherever it may be also gave them an advantage over other cultures who were more chauvinistic about the origin of whatever they did or thought. Less than a century later China was a superpower, economically, artistically intellectually, scientifically and almost militarily. It only lagged democratically.