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To my surprise, the more I searched about Qi Xiangfu, the more I found of a life lived partly online. He once wrote a short memoir in which he described himself in the third person, with the formality usually reserved for China's most famous writers.

— Evan Osnos

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The title 'Now He Sings, Now He Sobs' comes from 'I Ching,' an ancient Chinese book that I was into in the '60s when I was studying different philosophies and religions.

— Chick Corea

Zhang Yimou is one of the best directors on mainland China.

— Jet Li

On top of my to-do list in preparing for Beijing is 'On China' by Henry Kissinger, who has had firsthand experience with every top Chinese leader since Mao, so his insights are valuable and his access is perhaps unrivaled.

— Gary Locke

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.

— John Fusco

Zhang Yimou tried to use martial arts to talk about Chinese culture, Chinese people. What do they think, what do they want and what do they hope.

— Jet Li

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

What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.

— Wayne Dyer

When I was growing up I spent a lot of time reading about ancient China and was really fascinated.

— John Fusco

I'm not Chinese. I thrive in interesting times.

— Charles de Lint

✗Opposing Perspectives

The loneliest Chinese man I ever met lived halfway up the Three Gorges, in Sichuan Province.

— Paolo Bacigalupi