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pinlu The main message of this book: to acknowledge the need for reciprocity in dealings with China. p205 #ChinaCounting

pinlu It is an unelected and unrepresentative cabal of traditional groupings...as the country's governing body. p152 #ChinaCounting

pinlu The Chinese Communist Party is not a revolutionary socialist party at all. It is not even a political party. p152 #ChinaCounting

pinlu Too often in the West, education tends to foster an attitude to work as something to be resented rather than valued. p148 #ChinaCounting

pinlu At their core, the Chinese believe in their fundamental difference from the rest of the world as a superior civilization p149 #ChinaCounting

pinlu Chinese students' impression of UK tend to be based on literary classics such as Pride and Prejudice p98 #ChinaCounting

pinlu The trading relations that China enjoyed now have come about at at a heavy cost. p94 #ChinaCounting

pinlu Alan Coren: 'Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear. p32 #ChinaCounting

pinlu Don't tell Chinese to do st. you wouldn't do (a Confucian refrain). Don't invade Iraq and tell China to leave Tibet. p25 #ChinaCounting

pinlu Western values are shaped by a sense of individual guilt; while Chinese by an anxiety to avoid group shame. p22 #ChinaCounting

pinlu China's non-negotiable issues in order of intractability: recognition of human rights; Taiwan; Tibet; Xinjiang autonomy. p19 #ChinaCounting

pinlu Part I. China's social habits; II. How Chinese view West; III. How China's behaviors affect the West. Introduction #ChinaCounting