Chinese Diaspora Quotes

I am Chinese, but I am thoroughly American.

The world looks at China as a big place with a lot of people, a good place to make money. And because so many Chinese families send their kids abroad to study, they are familiar with foreign cultures, so Hollywood films are very successful in China.

Many of the Kuomintang elite in Taiwan have relatives among the ruling elite here on mainland China.

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

When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.

I have Chinese blood in me... I am not ashamed to admit that perhaps the great leaders of our country all have Chinese blood.

My grandfather was originally from the south of China before he emigrated to Malaysia pre-World War II. And I wanted to learn more about the history of the country of my ancestors. I knew I wanted a narrative set in contemporary Beijing. I was really interested in the effect of the rapid social and economic change on ordinary citizens in China.

When many Chinese escaped to North Korea during the Cultural Revolution, we embraced them. People in China have forgotten about this.

My father was second-generation Chinese-American, born in 1923 in California. My mother emigrated to the States from China when she was in her early twenties, in part to escape the political turmoil in China.

You can put these things into the hands of some Chinese and send him to Hong Kong and we'll have cleared chinks.

I wanna say 'China', but I don't really mean 'China.' I just mean the places that Chinese people come from.

I would not call my family 'traditional Chinese.' We were more what I would term the Colonial Chinese.

Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan.

Somehow, we [ Tan Dun and director Chen Kaige] were all privileged at the time; we could be outside of China. But at the moment, we had no sense of what the future was going to be like.

Each year 70 million Chinese leave China freely—go out to the West and the rest of the world—and freely return to China which some call a prison.

My siblings and I are known as ABCs, American-born Chinese.

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.

We must be sure that Canadians realize that our political differences with the Communist government in China has nothing to do with the country of China, or its people. The millions of Canadians with Chinese ancestry are not connected to our diplomatic differences with Beijing.

The Chinese are 3 percent of the population in Indonesia, a larger population in Malaysia; they're about 10 percent of the population in Thailand. But they are extremely economically dominant throughout Southeast Asia.

I'm from Cebu. I was one year old when I came here to Cebu from Fujian, south China. I'm Cebuano. I left for Manila when I was 22.