| 单词 | China |
| 例句 | The United States now has the highest rate of incarceration in the world, dwarfing the rates of nearly every developed country, even surpassing those in highly repressive regimes like Russia, China, and Iran. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Walter managed to reach China, where the leadership received him warmly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘I want to go straight from school to work for a company that will send me to wonderful faraway places like Africa or China. ’ Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The AO lay along the South China Sea, where things had the feel of a resort, with white beaches and palm trees and friendly little villages. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll be around for my internship, so it’s not like I’m going to China.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Shin saw a soccer ball for the first time when he was twenty-three, after fleeing to China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Then she told me that the night before she had reached back into her life, back when she was a girl in China, and this is what she had found. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was born in China, in Taiyuan,” she said. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “The old ladies in China had many silly superstitions,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I think they are saying China has changed in other ways as well. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Park left China and returned to North Korea in the summer of 2003, along with his wife and a baby son born in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Code books were common in China because they were used for sending telegrams. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z As a gesture of compromise and goodwill, the Daughters invited Marian Anderson to give the opening concert, a benefit for the United China Relief Fund. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z She wants me to step all the way to China. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “She says that coming from China, the odds of the baby’s family trying to regain custody are almost nil.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Moved from China to Santa Monica, California, a few years after marriage. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It extended barbed wire and built new concrete barriers.3 China, too, increased border security to discourage North Koreans from entering the country in the run-up to the 2008 Summer Olympics. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z From then on, Elizebeth sometimes had a chance to deal with new kinds of traffic, including messages from occupied China. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The roses were especially fragrant; their smell hung rich and heavy in the air, mingled with the smell of bergamot, and black China tea, and a faint inky scent of camphor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z But in China there was a difference, because the entire region was politically unified. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He fled to China in 1994, after his father, who supervised regional food distribution, ran afoul of his superiors and committed suicide. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z When the train rolled out of Camp 18, so did Kim, who knew the countryside well and used his personal contacts at the border to find a safe way to cross into China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We have now followed the initial stages of the Austronesian expansion for 2,500 miles from the South China coast, through Taiwan and the Philippines, to western and central Indonesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In China, families lived in compounds; a splintering in the family was called dividing the kitchen, and often meant that, literally. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Ammu was eight months pregnant when war broke out with China. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z During recess the teachers locked themselves up in their office with the shelves of books, copybooks, inks from China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But in an indirect and accidental way, it also energized the market ladies and traveling entrepreneurs who would give Shin sustenance, cover, and guidance in his escape to China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Whereas chiefdoms’ populations range from a few thousand to a few tens of thousands, the populations of most modern states exceed one million, and China’s exceeds one billion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Against the view that such great construction projects were unlikely, Kepler offered as counter-examples the pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of China, which can, in fact, be seen today from Earth orbit. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z After a second Opium War, the Tientsin Treaties legalized the ravaging opium trade, legalized a British-French-American control of China’s customs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z So, when Mrs. Prejudiced Cantrell opened her door, Jennifer began her spiel about poor kids in China and her school's fundraiser. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z "Maybe I'll go to China. My sex life is lousy," I said. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z There were pages and pages of gloom about the immediate likelihood of war between Japan and China, and the growing likelihood of war in Europe. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Some of those related beans and barleys were indeed domesticated independently in the Americas or China, far from the early site of domestication in the Fertile Crescent. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The room erupts into applause, but number eighty-eight isn’t done, not by the half of it, calling to Sammy at the piano, “Do you know ‘Slow Boat to China’?” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The joined forces of Russia and China advise that retaliatory attacks against North Korea will not be tolerated. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I turned in my Chapter Review Map on the culture of China to Mr. McElroy and added a list of Chinese characters and their meanings that I wrote myself to make up for being late. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z And now my mother’s left me forever, gone back to China to get these babies. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A youngest son whose stereo and TV repair business is so good he sends leftovers to China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was in China for five years. Then Singapore.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z There were secrets never to be said in front of the ghosts, immigration secrets whose telling could get us sent back to China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z China and India and Mesoamerica would, I think, have tumbled to science too, if only they had been given a little more time. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z So the hand- drawn plans are sent electronically to China, where they are converted into digital designs, which then are e-mailed back to the Japanese building firm, which turns them into manufacturing blueprints. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z "Tell the People's Republic of China we said thanks," Teddy added. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z The ancestors of modern speakers of Thai, Lao, and Burmese all moved south from South China and adjacent areas to their present locations within historical times, successively inundating the settled descendants of previous migrations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “What they do here has no bearing on the price of tea in China,” he finally says. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z In China, one lived in one’s family’s house. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Or people who visit churches in the summer and give testimonies about China. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Since Park was under orders to follow Shin around, every working day became a marathon session of whispered escape preparations and motivational stories about the fine dining that awaited them in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries you could travel from Holland to China in a year or two, the time it has taken Voyager to travel from Earth to Jupiter.’ Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there’s “China Town” where the Asians hang. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Joe brought the breakfast tray every morning—green China tea and cream and toast. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Park would lead them to China, where his uncle would give them shelter, money, and assistance in traveling on to South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He wanted to know if they supported this plan, which risked escalating tensions with the Soviet Union and China. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The blue hulls of England, the Red flag of China North. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It was a project as imaginary as digging a hole to China. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In this picture too my mother’s eyes are big with what they held—reaches of oceans beyond China, land beyond oceans. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They frolicked in a melancholy way, half giddy with freedom and travel, half fearful and lonely and worried, and irritated too, having gotten along in China, but as the simplest of friends. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nor I,” said the Emperor of China, proudly. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Moreover, the two nations that control access to the peak—Nepal and China—are staggeringly poor. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z We were certain that we were bringing a new life to China. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z As explained in the preceding section, I inferred that competition between different political entities spurred innovation in geographically fragmented Europe, and that the lack of such competition held innovation back in unified China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Aside from during one school trip to China, they never wore pants again. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Great Plains, and when farmers stemming ultimately from China emigrated to the Chatham Islands, the rain forests of Borneo, or the volcanic soils of Java or Hawaii. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Both Aly and I were in the same group as the top contenders from Russia, China, and Brazil. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Even now China wraps double binds around my feet. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But a discussion of “countries like Jamaica and China” which fails to identify their commonality—being similar in some way to Cuba—is bound to be incoherent. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z In addition, just as Eurasia’s east-west axis permitted many of these Chinese animals and crops to spread westward in ancient times, West Asian domesticates also spread eastward to China and became important there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, some places. But you can get it. Your gran loved ivory. She traveled to China when she was a child.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z “Then start telling him details about your life together in China. Act like a fortuneteller. He’ll be so impressed.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Some or all of these centers may actually comprise several nearby centers where food production arose more or less independently, such as North China’s Yellow River valley and South China’s Yangtze River valley. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were like rich women in China with nothing to do. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. Kind of embarrassing. Anyway, that’s how a Roman legion got to China. The Romans eventually put down roots and built a new hometown called—” “Li-Jien,” Frank said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Once, to bring silk scarves and apologies from China. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Only later Wing went to divinity school, thanks to China Mary, and Luke went to the county jail for selling stolen car stereos. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He had walked into a poor, mountainous, and sparsely populated part of China’s Jilin Province. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Susan was from China, but, as Hazel learned that night, her parents were not. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z China stuck the hot curlers into a tin of Nu Nile hair dressing. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z In China, there were concubines — not what she wanted to be at all, but which proved human nature capable of different sorts of marriage. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z It was perfected in North China, spread and preempted or replaced any other nascent system, and evolved into the writing still used in China today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China has had only a single writing system from the beginnings of literacy, a single dominant language for a long time, and substantial cultural unity for two thousand years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “No one in China eats rats,” I said stiffly. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He had gone back to China, where he had bought her and married her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But rice had been domesticated in warm southern China and spread only slowly northward to much cooler Korea, because it took a long time to develop new, cold-resistant strains of rice. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Hence the real problem in understanding China’s loss of political and technological preeminence to Europe is to understand China’s chronic unity and Europe’s chronic disunity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Both the Communists and the Nationalists wanted to make things better in China, he explained, but both did terrible things to people who opposed them. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, you’re guaranteed fine dining when you becomes one of us, young lad,” said the Emperor of China. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The dingo reached Australia at the peak of the Austronesian expansion from South China through Indonesia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In 1949, after centuries of inaccessibility, Nepal opened its borders to the outside world, and a year later the new Communist regime in China closed Tibet to foreigners. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z And your supplier’s inventory department had to be seamlessly connected to its supplier’s supplier, which was a factory in China. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z For Lee Chong dug into the grave on China Point and found the yellow bones, the skull with gray ropy hair still sticking to it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z These domestic animals and crops were gradually joined by China’s many other domesticates. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One was an old hand-drawn affair tracing out an acre or two of land, and marked with the now outmoded pictographs of old China. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z My mom called my brother Ron from China to complain that I’d ruined my special moment with what she called “typical Simone antics.” Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They had not reached the end of the world before I stopped hearing them, the last long moan diminishing toward China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She had thick-palmed, capable hands and many business interests; she traveled to Dubai to buy gold, to China to buy women’s clothing, and lately, she had become a distributor for a frozen chicken company. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Saint acted as if these gifts were nothing, as if he were a rich man treating a poor country girl to things we had never seen in China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Nick, I don’t have time to school you on nineteenth-century migration from Southern China. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z His destination was China, but he still did not know where it might be. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She would never take them, not even the gold one, not even if it took her two more years to pay to go back to China. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly the two women remembered that in China families married young boys to older girls, who baby-sat their husbands their whole lives. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z How can she talk to people in China with these words? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z That genetic and linguistic uniformity of Indonesia and the Philippines is initially as surprising as is the predominant linguistic uniformity of China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China’s husband was a fool, a coward, and a pig, and to prove it to her, Victor intended to hammer his head into a jelly the next time he encountered him. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z With their help, he hoped to find a stable job in southern China and build a low-profile life. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Still debatable are the origins of writing on Easter Island, in China, and in Egypt. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Central Mexico, they said, was the most densely populated place on earth, with more than twice as many people per square mile than China or India. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z If I had lived in China, I would have been an outlaw knot-maker. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your grandmother in China is sending you candy again,” said my mother. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z North Vietnam had a communist government, allied with the Soviet Union and China. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z When she had lived in China and in Hong Kong, she had written every other week. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z North China, South China, the coast, and the interior contributed different crops, livestock, technologies, and cultural features to the eventually unified China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The only place she would have less value would be China. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z For a time the roads were endangered by a fantastic creature, half man and half ape, that a traveller to the West had captured and brought back to China in a cage. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah,” said China, “where you get it from?” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The historical southward expansions of Burmese, Laotians, and Thais from South China completed the Sinification of tropical Southeast Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I hated her for her China doll hair cut. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There has never been one despot who could turn off the tap for all of Europe, as of China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a story about how Yu Li came to the United States from China with his parents. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z China had an astronomical tradition millennia old; it invented paper and printing, rockets, clocks, silk, porcelain, and ocean-going navies. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z "I am an employee of the China National Space Administration. I will be your guide and translator during your stay in the People's Republic of China." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It was unwritten law in China, so my informant told me, that when one man saved another’s life he became responsible for that life to the end of its existence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The most productive areas of modern China were politically joined for the first time in 221 B.C. and have remained so for most of the time since then. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Bing was pounding the soda bottle against the rock, so I called to him, “Don’t dig so hard. You’ll bust a hole in the wall and fall all the way to China.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sammy,” I want to call out, “keep playing ‘Slow Boat to China,’ but reroute that canoe to Russia,” but instead I just step forward, out of line. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Living among one’s own emigrant villagers can give a good Chinese far from China glory and a place. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nodding her head as she listened to Jack-Jack explain how he thought girls should have been allowed to be soldiers back in ancient China. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “That’s the year Tipper and I took that trip to China.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z It was Japan that struck first, in 1937, sending its armies smashing into the rest of China. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z These were the same women I’d inevitably see at the next competition—women from Russia and China, Tunisia and Hungary—so I would be ready when I faced them on the strip. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Helen had included a good paper napkin too, the expensive kind they used for company, and one of their only two pairs of real ivory chopsticks, which Helen had brought with her from China. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z However, many cultures have their own forms of notation such India, Indonesia, and China, etc. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z Although the scientific panel had proposed informing Britain, France, China, and Russia, in practical terms the real question boiled down to what to tell the Soviets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The societies without writing that I just mentioned are ones that got a later start on food production than did Sumer, Mexico, and China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Well, come on, it’s kind of hard to take you seriously when you’re talking about the Great Wall of China and Egypt and stuff. Those are just big goofy dreams. They’re not real.” The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z And there were rumors of layoffs, big ones, trickling down from head office, and talk of moving the entire production facility to China, so keeping on top of things was doubly important at the moment. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z More and more American and European companies are outsourcing significant research and development tasks to India, Russia, and China. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z From obsessive reading online, the politics, history, and geography of the two Koreas, China, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the United States would all become familiar. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Far from being modern breadbaskets, they include areas ranking today as somewhat dry or ecologically degraded: Iraq and Iran, Mexico, the Andes, parts of China, and Africa’s Sahel zone. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The early farmers of the Fertile Crescent and China were heirs to the technology that behaviorially modern Homo sapiens had been developing to exploit local resources in those areas for tens of thousands of years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Seven of those fleets sailed from China between A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Long ago in China, knot-makers tied string into buttons and frogs, and rope into bell pulls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And it’s not just stuff from China—there’s stuff from South Korea and Thailand and Japan too. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The survey suggested they were on the road primarily for economic reasons, hoping to find work or trade in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Those original white “Christian traders” sent into China millions of pounds of opium. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you want her to go back to China then?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Forget shutters, if I could put the Great Wall of China around him and me, I would. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Red China after World War II closed its doors to the Western white world. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z One couldn’t say, couldn’t begin to say, although this much was certain — what mattered in China was not necessarily what mattered here. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z All my life there had been fighting somewhere in China—warlord against warlord. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “In China, birds go for walks every day.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z She then escaped, and in 2009 found her way out of North Korea to South Korea, via China, Laos, and Thailand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z His work consists of constantly loading and unloading one hundred kilograms of rice onto trucks to be sent to China. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z My comparison of the histories of China, the Indian subcontinent, and Europe in the epilogue of GGS suggested an answer to this question as applied to technological innovation in whole countries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Today, China appears politically, culturally, and linguistically monolithic, at least to laypeople. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Savvy operators within these organizations diverted trucks and colluded with smugglers to import fleets of secondhand cars, vans, and buses from China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z "Not necessarily in China, for God's sake. The East I said. Must we go on with this inane conversation?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “China wants to control Korea again! The only way to save our country is to fight!” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Orthodox monks smuggled silk out of China in the sixth century. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Lee Chong presented the great string of firecrackers and the China lily bulbs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The histories of the Fertile Crescent and China also hold a salutary lesson for the modern world: circumstances change, and past primacy is no guarantee of future primacy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Within East Asia, China’s head start in food production, technology, writing, and state formation had the consequence that Chinese innovations also contributed heavily to developments in neighboring regions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My father assembled his long bamboo fishing pole, a pole he had made with his own two hands, remembering its design from his childhood in China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And it was important that I do something big and fine, or else my parents would sell me when we made our way back to China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Father had brought it to him from China. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z He could sit down at the piano, looking as if he had given up on China, but pretty soon his left hand would get the cannon booming and the drums beating. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Nine out of ten households traded to survive.1 More and more North Koreans sneaked across the border into China for food, work, trade, and flight to South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Behind these and other proximate factors, I saw an “Optimal Fragmentation Principle”: ultimate geographic factors that led to China becoming unified early and mostly remaining unified thereafter, while Europe remained constantly fragmented. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Every time the Angkar thinks the Youns will invade Cambodia, the soldiers stock up on food and supplies and ship more rice to China in exchange for guns. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Without rice, you don’t survive. If you want to be anyone in this part of China, you would have to have rice. It made the world go around.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z It was just after this stoning that my mother left China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t need muscles in China. I was small in China.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I was glad he said that because my “China you” shot out right on time. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In China there were solutions for what to do with little girls who ate up food and threw tantrums. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Japanese were in every corner of China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z If we lived in China there would probably be a vigil or a ceremony, but here it ain’t nothing. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She must never forget China or lose her Chinese. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “Do a lot of people cross into China?” Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She said no, they were neighbor kids who had begged to come along because they wanted to see the girl from China. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Of China’s 1.2 billion people, over 800 million speak Mandarin, the language with by far the largest number of native speakers in the world. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He kept saying, “America and Japan strong, but China is the future place.” Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I could choose to marry your father, or I could choose not to marry him and go back to China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The initial development of food production in China was therefore independent of that at the same latitude in the Fertile Crescent, and gave rise to entirely different crops. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Ch’i-lin, for instance, out of ancient China, has the body of a deer covered with gleaming scales, a marvelous bushy tail, cloven hooves, and small horns. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Although Park was well traveled in North Korea and in China, he confided to Shin that he knew little about the steep, snowy, thinly populated mountains outside the fence. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z A second agreement in 1986 committed China to sending North Korean defectors back home, where they often face arrest, torture, and months or years of forced labor. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Thus, geographic connectedness and only modest internal barriers gave China an initial advantage. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I remember my mother telling me about the Hsus’ trip to China three years ago. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Travelers on the Silk Road between China and the Mediterranean had to cross desert and the Hindu Kush, both formidable obstacles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z In the old days, when China wanted to launch a rocket, they just launched it. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Evidently, those first Neolithic occupants of Taiwan had watercraft adequate for deep-sea fishing and for regular sea traffic across Taiwan Strait, separating that island from the China coast. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Let it have him,” said the Emperor of China. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He had even brought a China plate, a silver spoon, and a silver knife for himself. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z That persistence of Chinese writing in Japan and Korea is a vivid 20th-century legacy of plant and animal domestication in China nearly 10,000 years ago. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Without high productivity, she says, the work will move to lower- wage countries such as China. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z He wished he were in China, where if there turned out to be something wrong with the marriage he could always take a concubine. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked her, “What would happen if all the tea in China suddenly fell from the sky and landed on us?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z Food aid from China and the World Food Program was also flooding into state coffers—and some of it ended up in street markets. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They’d found their way through Rome and China and finally to Canada. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z With a new wad of cash for food and bribes, China again seemed possible. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The China National Space Administration abandoned a project they'd worked on for years just to provide a booster. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everybody has TVs in China now,” says Auntie Lin, changing the subject. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Because of this ease of domestication, big-seeded annuals were the first, or among the first, crops developed not only in the Fertile Crescent but also in China and the Sahel. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z International law, in effect, has been trumped by the strategic interests of North Korea and China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They focus on the North’s chronic food shortages, human rights violations, military provocations, nuclear program, and dependence on China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z China’s frequent unity and Europe’s perpetual disunity both have a long history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I am seeing myself and my mother, back in China, when I was a young girl. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Satellite photographs of the Korean Peninsula at night show a black hole between China and South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “There’s a competition. The winner gets to go on a photo shoot. You can go to China, Africa, or India.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Having the theory, though, did not lead to its immediate adoption as a tuning system in either China or Europe. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Even China, enormous China, had fallen, fallen, fallen, until it became a thing recalled. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In The Wizard of Oz—the book, not the movie—Dorothy goes to this place called the Dainty China Country, and all the people are tiny and perfect. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Listening now to Auntie Lin bragging about the virtues of her family in China, I realize that Auntie Lin is oblivious to Auntie An-mei’s pain. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And that’s when I remembered the babies she had lost in China, the ones we never talked about. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know what people in China eat when they have the money?” my mother began. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Why do you always tell your friends that I arrived in the United States on a slow boat from China? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Women in China wore blouses and pants and jackets. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “And when you look at that jar, Miss Jean,” he said, “you can think: ‘I was born in China. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Some developments spread from south to north in China, especially iron smelting and rice cultivation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z What happened to the tens of thousands of distinct languages that must have arisen in China over that long time span? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He thumbed his nose at the relief act meant to help him, as though to claim his home was China was to make China indeed his home. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A second area of active discussion since 1997 falls under a heading that could be termed “Why Europe, not China?” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China and Russia deploy their military forces to strategic positions throughout the world while suggesting that the US capitulate to North Korea’s demands. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z He invited the president of France, the president of the United States, the president of Russia, Italy, Germany, and China, as well as our own president, His Excellency, the President for Life Papa Doc Duvalier. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Are Dalian residents bothered by working for the Japanese, whose government has still never formally apologized for what the wartime Japanese government did to China? The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z But no matter how she scrunched, she could not see if their roofs curved skyward like the temples of China or were topped with straw like the homes of peasants. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Instead, those trees must be grown by the difficult technique of grafting, developed in China long after the beginnings of agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In Edgar Snow’s brilliant Red Star Over China I saw that it was Mao’s determination and nontraditional thinking that led him to victory. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z This ragged group then joined several hundred American prisoners of war on a forced trek to Mampo, a small town on the Yalu River, which forms the border between North Korea and China. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z These factors—cultural, technological, conceptual, political—were absent in China, and hence the Chinese admired clockwork but had no use for it. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z One or two viruses can become a billion viruses in a few days—a China of viruses in a bottle the size of one’s thumb. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z China’s coastline is much smoother, and only the nearby Korean Peninsula attained separate importance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “She spoke four languages. You wouldn’t think to look at her. Little slip of a China girl.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z In China, Helen had been taught enormous circumspection; the world there was like a skating rink, a finite space, walled. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Greek philosophies on the beneficial behavioural qualities of music find striking parallels with Confucius-influenced writings of the second and third centuries bc in China. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Tell them you are going to visit family members in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He paid particularly close attention to reports about border-crossing conditions, the routes defectors were taking to travel from China to South Korea, and the lives they led after getting there. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She imagined herself on a boat back to China. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The rise of food production in China spawned several great prehistoric movements of human populations, or of cultural traits, or of both. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China tried delaying that Treaty’s ratification; Peking was looted and burned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This was the year my mother and father left China with one stiff leather trunk filled only with fancy silk dresses. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Historians have subsequently pointed out to me that Europe’s fragmentation, China’s unity, and Europe’s and China’s relative strengths were all more complex than depicted in my account. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But one day, all these tired peasants—from all over China— they gathered in fields everywhere. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He is now spearheading a drive to outsource low-end Japanese jobs to Japanese-speaking call centers and service providers in China. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z It usually takes a year or two for defectors to find their way from China to South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z An earthquake in rural China buried thousands in their homes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z After that she would be the first one to make a large tunnel through the world to China, and people could go down in big balloons. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Somewhere in this world—in China or India or a remote section of Africa—there was probably a bigger dork than me. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Food meant a lot more to him than it means to most people, and everywhere he went in China there was an impressive abundance of it. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It has never occurred to me that there are kids like me in Germany and China and France who need a machine to help them talk. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The Allies had forced the German troops from North Africa earlier that year, but in China there was an ongoing battle to drive out the invading Japanese. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z It was filled with bundles of paper and marked with an address in China. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z But Park was inclined to believe the radio broadcasts from Seoul, which he had heard while living in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “If they do that,” my mother said, “maybe you won’t have as much money as you do now. There are many more poor people in China than there are rich.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The North Korean government had been forced—by catastrophic famine in the mid-1990s and the importance of Chinese foodstuffs in feeding the population—to tolerate a porous border with China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z JING-MEI WOO A Pair of Tickets The minute our train leaves the Hong Kong border and enters Shenzhen, China, I feel different. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But this was not an answer that satisfied friends who warned him to stay out of China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But over time they added the stories of other places in the world: chapters about China, India, Persia, Japan, and other places. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As we shall see, his work continued to have repercussions down to the eve of the Renaissance, as Columbus prepared to sail west to China. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z One minute she was talking to my father, complaining about the tenants upstairs, scheming how to evict them under the pretense that relatives from China were moving in. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I feel like the Emperor of China. How do I look, Harry?” The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z It is also not restricted to our time: Sumerian cylinder seals from the third millennium b.c. and Taoist flags in prerevolutionary China displayed constellations. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They must have all loved her, except perhaps my father, the only brother who never went back to China, having once been traded for a girl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there was Sung Guo, also called Seneca Gracchus, who fought twelve Roman dragons and sixteen Chinese dragons in the western deserts of China. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “I want to go to China someday. They have the best food.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z For example, millet cultivation, bronze technology, and writing arose in North China, while rice cultivation and cast-iron technology emerged in South China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Korean speakers living in northeast China have also been an unsung force for cultural change inside North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z If it was a piano, she must send a secret letter to China and tattle to the elders about her infamous piano lessons. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It drives the fear away and makes it possible someday to visit China, where I know now they don’t sell girls or kill each other for no reason. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I was in China in a city named Hankow, a dot on a crooked line that seemed to break the country right in two. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If the earth had opened up and dropped me clear to China, that would have been just dandy with me. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Forty thousand years ago, those crossings may have been achieved by bamboo rafts, low-tech but seaworthy watercraft still in use in coastal South China today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Having navigated on his own through several of China’s largest and most prosperous cities, he was accustomed to pushy crowds, tall buildings, flashy cars, and electronic gadgets. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The great exception to this rule of the recent melting pot is the world’s most populous nation, China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China was a large country, the inspector told them without a trace of irony. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z His sisters still have the silk scarves Papa brought back from China. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people talked of nothing but China; others of nothing but America. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “I came upon this one when I was diving in the South China Sea.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z But where Europe had the profoundly different civilizations of China and Islam to steal from, Mesoamerica was alone in the world. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z As for my dad, well, Kalbro had announced they were moving a big chunk of their production to China, which I think he might have warned us about at one point or another. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z During those same centuries China led the world in technology, having launched itself on food production nearly as early as the Fertile Crescent did. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But I could tell that Lin Nai-Nai thought that the money dividing would be part of a great new China where men would stick to one wife and women wouldn’t bind their feet. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z This chapter will tell the story of how China did become Chinese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Columbus discovered America, an unknown world, when he was trying to find a new route to a known world, China. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z China consisted then of kingdoms with rich elites and poorer commoners, living in walled towns, and on the verge of political unification to become the world’s largest empire. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z However, those next efforts did not appear until 2,500 years later in China and 3,100 years later in medieval Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Miao-Yao speakers live in dozens of small enclaves, all surrounded by speakers of other language families and scattered over an area of half a million square miles, extending from South China to Thailand. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Another Peking, China paper, Jenmin Jihpao, said that the death showed that “in dealing with imperialist oppressors, violence must be met with violence. ” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Why did Austronesian people, stemming ultimately from mainland China, colonize Java and the rest of Indonesia and replace the original inhabitants there, instead of Indonesians colonizing China and replacing the Chinese? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z If this were true, Columbus would have reached China, garlic would disempower magnets, and pigs could fly. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A girl in China did not marry for love. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, the earliest identified crops were two drought-resistant species of millet in North China, but rice in South China, suggesting the possibility of separate northern and southern centers of plant domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And then they could not imagine how parents drowned their daughters, as they knew farmers in China often did — bathing the baby, it was called. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you go to China,” I told her, “you don’t even need to open your mouth. They already know you are an outsider.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But China and Japan never developed that kind of oppressive feudal system, because feudalism simply can’t work in a rice economy. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z China had developed intensive agriculture based on millets in the north and rice in the south, and with domestic pigs, chickens, and water buffalo. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Ta-p’en-k’eng sites of Taiwan and the South China coast are full of fish bones and mollusk shells, as well as of stone net sinkers and adzes suitable for hollowing out a wooden canoe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I am to return to China where I have never been. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He talked about China for more than half a day, explaining where to cross the Tumen and how to behave at the checkpoints near the border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “You can read books and tell me the capital of China, but you have no idea how the world works. God only knows how he will find it fit to punish us.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Well, for heaven’s sake,” I exploded, “you don’t expect to hang around China until it’s all through fighting, do you?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It would be China's first heliology probe to orbit the sun. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Wen was soon talking without prompts from Pete about his giant China, about the provinces, and poverty, the backwardness of people and leaders. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s all yours,” he said with much fanfare, and bowed deeply as if I were the emperor of China. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His plan for surviving in China was as half-baked as his plan had been for escaping North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It seemed to him at that moment, as he stood waiting and waiting, trapped in his coat, that a man was as doomed here as he was in China. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Those and other draconian measures must have contributed to the spread of North China’s Sino-Tibetan languages over most of China, and to reducing the Miao-Yao and other language families to their present fragmented distributions. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And although my father was not a fisherman but a pharmacist’s assistant who had once been a doctor in China, he believed in his nengkan, his ability to do anything he put his mind to. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother never talked about her life in China, but my father said he saved her from a terrible life there, some tragedy she could not speak about. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Destroying the fourolds was a new battle, and an important one: It would keep China from losing her Communist ideals. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z These paradoxes hint that China too was once diverse, as all other populous nations still are. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Tuttle’s next appointment, a toy exporter from China, was waiting on him outside his office. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z "You are official guests of the People's Republic of China. You have been preauthorized to bypass customs. I can take you to your hotel immediately." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z A German-born Communist trained in tradecraft in Moscow, Werner had spent the 1930s working as a Soviet secret agent in China and Switzerland. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Cari scratched his back and recited the encyclopedia entry on China from memory until he fell asleep. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z “Please turn back. Oh, you must turn the car around. I should be returning to China. I shouldn’t be here at all. Let’s go back. Do you understand me?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t care about China and all these musty antiques. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Factories in China and elsewhere churn out picture- taking cellphones and other luxuries that are now affordable to almost everyone. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Their ambitious mission was to open asylum shelters for defectors who crossed into China and to smuggle antiregime pamphlets into North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Now, after six periods, we had learned “Long live Chairman Mao,” “Long live the Chinese Communist Party,” and “Long live socialist China.” Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Chinese doing computer drawings for Japanese homes, nearly seventy years after a rapacious Japanese army occupied China, razing many homes in the process. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I know this because I read this news in a magazine from China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The scheme was to present a collection for poor kids in China, just so we could see their reaction to me standing there beside Jennifer. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z In the past half century, the governments of China and North Korea have cooperatively used their security forces to make sure that the intermittent seepage of Koreans across the border never turns into a flood. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She was a hard-faced, pretty litigation lawyer who smoked constantly and wore her blond hair in a China chop. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Grandmother had taken him there sometimes when she would charter planes to bring in special shipments from China. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The odds of avoiding arrest and successfully crossing to China seem to change from season to season. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I am not thinking of the wall-to-wall carpet, or the camera, or the trip to China. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Argentina to promote his Fischer Random variation...and to the Philippines, China, and Japan for social and business reasons. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It further rankled the westerners that the prejudices of the East overwhelmingly prevailed in the national press, which often seemed to operate on the assumption that anything west of the Rockies was China. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “To China? Didn’t the Japanese once colonize China, leaving a very bad taste in the mouths of the Chinese?” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Then, through a series of misadventures, the family had ended up in China, finally emigrating to Canada in the twentieth century. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Park would enlist the help of his uncle in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z So am I. You know my ancestors invented soccer in China over four thousand— You’re from Singapore, dude. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z Astronauts from all nations can still go into space from the Soviet Union, and countries such as China have developed their own space programs. Women in Space 2014-02-01T00:00:00Z These packets can then be sent around China or Japan for typing, depending on the specialty required, and then reassembled at the company’s database in its Tokyo headquarters. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I picture myself at the top of the Eiffel Tower, climbing pyramids in Egypt, dancing in the streets in Spain, riding in a boat in Venice, and walking on the Great Wall of China. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z In 2010, high school students in Shanghai, China’s largest city, finished first in an international standardized test of math, science, and reading proficiency given to students in sixty-five nations. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z In China there was time to complete feelings. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And he had seen a man half-mummy, half-skeleton, floating in the waters of the China Sea, eaten from below while his back side, sun dried, gradually turned brown and leathery. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z China may actually have encompassed two or more independent centers of origins of food production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many other nations have now launched spacecraft, including Britain, France, Canada, Japan and China, the society that invented the rocket in the first place. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Poland and China were getting ready for the evening. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z When we got to the trap, Wishbone was digging at the ground beside the wire like he was trying to dig a hole clear through to China. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The destruction of Britain’s forests has been suggested as the reason behind its early lead in developing coal technology, but why didn’t deforestation have the same effect in China? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The proliferation of many similar languages in the Philippines and Indonesia merely reflects the fact that the islands never underwent a political and cultural unification, as did China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China was not too terrible, at least not in our imaginations. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z He had come to prepare for his departure, with three others, for military training in the People’s Republic of China; we had renewed the contacts that Walter had made back in 1952. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dear Older Sister. Please allow me to explain —” “I know. This isn’t China.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I needed to see Dalian, this Bangalore of China, firsthand, so I kept moving around the East. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I listen today to the radio, and watch television, and read the headlines about the collective white man’s fear and tension concerning China. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Vagabonds with a bit of cash could travel toward China without attracting attention. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Of course I knew about the Communists who wanted to make a revolution in China like the one in Russia that had driven Vera Sebastian out. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the last 12,000 years, agriculture arose at not more than nine places over the face of the earth: China, the Fertile Crescent, and a few other places. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Not in China, not in America, not in the past, not in the future. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Beijing’s distaste for North Korean defectors, as enforced by police and border soldiers, is well understood by farmers, factory foremen, and other bosses in China’s northeast provinces. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Not everyone in China, however, viewed this result as an unmitigated triumph. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Before he had eaten his first hot meal in China, Shin had a job and a place to sleep. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Riverbanks, hillsides, the cool sloped rooms under the pine trees—China provides her soldiers with meeting places enough. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But she just said: “We are not in China anymore. You don’t have to marry the village boy. Here everybody is now from the same village even if they come from different parts of China.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My friends and I had grown up with the stories of the brave revolutionaries who had saved China. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him crickets were considered lucky in China. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z An even more drastic linguistic upheaval must have swept over tropical Southeast Asia to the south of China—in Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Peninsular Malaysia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, landlords in central and Southern China had an almost completely hands-off relationship with their tenants: they would collect a fixed rent and let farmers go about their business. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z That was so he could go back to China if he wanted to, Mama said. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin fiddled with its dial nearly every morning, switching among the dozen or so Korean-language stations that broadcast daily into North Korea and northeast China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Milwaukee loved Hoo's Little Foot-Eze, and so did Chicago and New York and Los Angeles, but he still had not taken his wife to China. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z In February 1972, Richard Nixon stunned the world with a weeklong trip to China. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “We have more ghosts than anything else. I guess nothing in China ever dies. It’s very crowded. Anyway, that’s the feeling I got when I was there.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z That was saying something in light of Hitler’s rise in Europe, the Nazi persecution of Jews, the New England hurricane, the business and employment slump, and the war between China and Japan. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z One was China, and the other was called the Maginot Line. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “It certainly looks different from China. I’m glad to see the Americans talk like us.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For instance, the Fertile Crescent, China, and Europe differed in their exposure to the perennial threat of barbarian invasions by horse-mounted pastoral nomads of Central Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A superb Chinese tradition of bronze metallurgy had its origins in the third millennium B.C. and eventually resulted in China’s developing by far the earliest cast-iron production in the world, around 500 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The veterinarian was unable to pinpoint his origin and Clara decided that he was from China, because most of her uncle’s baggage was from that distant land. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But if Pizarro had not interrupted, the Inka might have created a monolithic culture as enduring as China. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z His meals had always appeared on China plates and silver trays as if by magic. The Whipping Boy 1986-04-01T00:00:00Z How could I stay put in China when my steamer rug was ready for the high seas? Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Or it may well be that they’re resting happily in China, their spirits dispersed among the real Chinese, and not nudging me at all with their poles. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A village in China of fifteen hundred people might support itself entirely with 450 acres of land, which in the American Midwest would be the size of a typical family farm. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z That same year Communists took power in China, the world’s most populous nation. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Her mother and father had come to the Gold Mountain leaving Mary, a toddler, in China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, not only is China not a melting pot, but it seems absurd to ask how China became Chinese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Dates for China are nearly as early, while dates for the eastern United States are clearly about 6,000 years later. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Seven hundred years ago, Kublai Khan was the ruler of China. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Back in Camp 14, Park had assured Shin that once they made it to China he would arrange for passage to South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Showing brown teeth, China seemed to be genuinely enjoying Mr. Henry. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Now her eyes include the relatives in China, as they once included my father smiling and smiling in his many western outfits, a different one for each photograph that he sent from America. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “In China, my father was government official. Scholar. One-hundred-percent honest type.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A few ventured through the Straits of Malacca, past the Philippines, to China. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever Grandmother started lecturing him about his ancestors—how they’d come over from China and prospered in the import/export business, eventually becoming one of the wealthiest Chinese families in Vancouver—well, it was boring. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Nearly two million ethnic Koreans now live in China’s three northeast provinces, with the highest concentration in Jilin, which Shin entered when he crawled across the frozen river. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Why did agricultural revolutions erupt in the Middle East, China and Central America but not in Australia, Alaska or South Africa? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She hoped he would give her one of his long talks about something like the history of China, and she would half listen as always, while cheering him up. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z States organized by or modeled on that Zhou Dynasty of North China spread to South China during the first millennium B.C., culminating in China’s political unification under the Qin Dynasty in 221 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Early food production was less competitive with hunting-gathering in the Americas than in the Fertile Crescent or China, partly owing to the Americas’ virtual lack of domesticable wild mammals. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “The first thing you’ve got to ask your husband,” she said, “is why he never came back to China when he got rich.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But probably a more important reason is that the original Southeast Asian stock from which the colonists of Greater Australia were derived has by now been largely replaced by other Asians expanding out of China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z So they looked to the east, to China. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In China my parents would sell my sisters and me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps the sane people stayed in China to build the new, sane society. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The conference ended with the passing of a multitude of resolutions dealing with China, India, Germany, Japan, and conditions afflicting various parts of the earth. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I do business with Chinese pirates all the time. I’d love to visit China. I’m also dying to go see Japan. It’s on my bucket list.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I saw in my mind escarpments rising into the clouds, a kind of natural Great Wall of China. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The geographic boundaries of the political/social spheres that could usefully be grouped as “Europe” or “China” fluctuated over the centuries. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He found Madame Hoo in their rear fourth-floor apartment kneeling before her bamboo trunk, fingering mementoes from her childhood in China. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The subsequent exploration of the Earth was a worldwide endeavor, including voyages from as well as to China and Polynesia. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence social scientists continue to debate the specific reasons why receptivity changed in Islam, China, and Europe, and why the Chimbus, Ibos, and Navajo were more receptive to new technology than were their neighbors. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Innovation in China too fluctuated markedly with time. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China had changed her mind about the bangs and was arranging a small but sturdy pompadour. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The building looks like it was made in China and brought here just for us. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z The end of China’s treasure fleets gives us a clue. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I could’ve built a wall to rival that one I heard about in China. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Little Wife felt so sorry for her, she reminded her husband that he owed it to Big Wife to get her out of China before it was too late. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Korea and Japan were heavily influenced by China, although their geographic isolation from it ensured that they did not lose their languages or physical and genetic distinctness, as did tropical Southeast Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I could not understand any of the dialects the interviewer at China Airlines tried on me, and he didn’t understand me either. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z These consequences of Europe’s disunity stand in sharp contrast to those of China’s unity. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The 1970s were the years of Nixon’s visit to China, the advent of Transcendental Meditation, cigarette advertising being banned from the airwaves, and fast-food chains multiplying. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Guo Ming, director of the China National Space Administration, examined the daunting pile of paperwork at his desk. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And again I say out loud, “This is communist China?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z On the shore of the Western Sea, it had access both to the easiest sea route northward and to plentiful trade with China. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z In both the Fertile Crescent and China, iron objects became common only after about 2,000 years of experience of bronze metallurgy. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z A much more representative viewpoint is that of a three-year-old girl dying from malnutrition in first-century China because her father’s crops have failed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She was born in China and moved to Cambodia as a little girl. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In Hawaii, planters first brought men—only men—from China to work the crop. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Chariot wheels, water wheels, potter’s wheels, millstone wheels— one can’t imagine Europe or China without them. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z But in Japan or China, farmers didn’t have the money to buy equipment—and, in any case, there certainly wasn’t any extra land that could easily be converted into new fields. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Even though Rome’s apples were at least native to western Eurasia, they were grown by means of grafting techniques that had developed in China and spread westward from there. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And it seems that some Chinese chickens will soon come home to roost, with China’s recent successful nuclear tests. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe the British wanted a place where they could pretend they weren’t in China, I thought. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Our archaeological knowledge of China’s emerging cities and states then becomes supplemented by written accounts of China’s first dynasties, going back to the Xia Dynasty, which arose around 2000 B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Nelson was not going to sleep in our chicken house for all the teeth in China. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess you never had anyone as bad as Miss Crofts in your school in China, did you?” he asked. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The bald man, who had been charting our progress from the city markers called from the window slot, guessed we were somewhere in the Altai region, just north of China. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She would make her circus get famous and get jobs in Europe, and maybe even China or Japan. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z As he scrounged in Gilju, escape to China slipped from Shin’s mind. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z But if I made myself unsellable here, my parents need only wait until China, and there, where anything happens, they would be able to unload us, even me—sellable, marriageable. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, I do need rest after travelling all the way from China,” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In other areas, though, that role of cereals was taken over or shared by roots and tubers, which were of negligible importance in the ancient Fertile Crescent and China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You were shivering so hard, looked like you might end up digging a hole to China.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z China, sitting on a pale-green kitchen chair, forever and forever curling her hair. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z China’s first revolutionaries domesticated rice, millet and pigs. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z These advantages and head start enabled medieval China to lead the world in technology. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Russian and German concessions had been officially returned to China, but the people still called them concessions. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Why, then, did the Fertile Crescent and China eventually lose their enormous leads of thousands of years to late-starting Europe? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My mother left China in the winter of 1939, almost six months after the stoning, and arrived in New York Harbor in January, 1940. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even some insects have been domesticated, notably Eurasia’s honeybee and China’s silkworm moth, kept for honey and silk, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And a performer, just like my mother used to be, touring the country, the world, to tell everyone about the New China that Chairman Mao had built and how it was becoming stronger and stronger. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He had an idea, but it seemed crazy— even crazier than a family moving from Greece to Rome to China to Canada. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In China, people had worried more about being recognized; even here, if Helen were snubbed, she might sigh, “Of course, he did not realize who we are.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z China, taking advantage of the chaos, launches its full arsenal of nuclear weapons at key US targets, initiating a full-blown thermonuclear war that ultimately renders the planet a desolate wasteland incapable of supporting life. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It is not the case that all cultural advances in East Asia stemmed from China and that Koreans, Japanese, and tropical Southeast Asians were noninventive barbarians who contributed nothing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They did not know that tens of thousands of North Koreans had abandoned their homes and were walking into China in search of food. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z So I discovered the next plan to get rid of us: marry us off here without waiting until China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z So, too, with the presidents of Russia, Italy, Germany, and China. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z It exists in the mythology of Egypt, Greece, the Middle East, and Europe, and is the same as the vermilion bird of ancient China. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Presents paved roads in China too; this was a type of construction he knew. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z And this last year, I think she got a big idea in her head, to go to China and find them herself. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z There are no reliable numbers on defections to China, or on the movement of people drifting around inside North Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Speaking in similarly grave tones, the Secretary of the Army pointed to another Red menace, China, calling it “a crouched tiger ready to spring on any prey that is weak and wounded.” The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But China’s connectedness eventually became a disadvantage, because a decision by one despot could and repeatedly did halt innovation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Our only material goods from the outside world of late were comic books, which my sisters cherished like Marco Polo’s spices from China, and powdered eggs and milk, to which we felt indifferent. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “If this was Red China they would. The Red Chinese Communist Party don’t play. Kids younger than that Little Girl turn their mother and father over to the Reds for treason and reeducation.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, medieval Islam, centrally located in Eurasia, acquired inventions from India and China and inherited ancient Greek learning. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Compared to traveling in North Korea, Shin found it easy and safe to travel in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She was protected by her family, as they would normally have done in China if they could have afforded it, not sent off to school with strangers, ghosts, boys. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tumen River, which forms about a third of the border between North Korea and China, is shallow and narrow. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I already mentioned the ecological differences between China’s cool, dry north and warm, wet south. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The women are talking about the Jongs’ China trip, then they move toward a room in the back of the apartment. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Our earliest written information about Japan comes from Chinese chronicles, because China developed literacy long before it spread from China to either Korea or Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Each of these phases is specialized and unique, and neither India nor China nor Russia has a critical mass of talent that can handle the whole product cycle for a big American multinational. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z When asking for help in China, Shin was careful not to say too much. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They are confined to aborigines of the island of Taiwan, lying only 90 miles from the South China mainland. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In China, friends were always arranging things for each other; Janis’s reaction felt familiar, a form of goodwill Helen knew how to accept. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Mike was shoving the Hillside tackle halfway to China. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Sunny Hoo finally made her trip to China, but returned to carry on the business. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Pyongyang was particularly enraged by South Korean and American initiatives that made it easier for North Korean defectors who had crossed into China to travel even farther, and settle in the West. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z China’s size and ecological diversity spawned many separate local cultures, distinguishable archaeologically by their differing styles of pottery and artifacts. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Are there loops in these places?” asked Olive, pointing to a void that stretched across much of China. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z Anyone who attempted to smuggle silkworm eggs out of China faced punishment of death. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A better answer might be one implicit in Robert Temple's book, The Genius of China, a history of Chinese science and technology published in 1998. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z It remains a challenge for historians to reconcile these different approaches to answering the question “Why Europe, not China.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China was too big for me to even imagine all the things that might happen. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The gateway to the industrial heartland of Southern China runs up through the wide, verdant swath of the Pearl River Delta. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Started out where he was born—China—then went to parts of Europe and up and down the East Coast of the United States before settling in New Jersey. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z If she slept more she might be able to contain herself better, she thought; she imagined rest and sleep to be like the clay flood walls villagers built in China. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z So she ignored my mother’s advice and took the heavy bags and their two thousand dollars to China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just know she’s going to win a blue ribbon with that Spotted Poland China of hers.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We take this seeming unity of China so much for granted that we forget how astonishing it is. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Was that really our Mr. Henry with China’s fingers? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z “His name is Yassen Gregorovich. He was born in Russia, but he now works for many countries. Iraq has employed him. Also Serbia, Libya, and China.” Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z It is like what happened when I went back to China last year, after I had not been there for almost forty years. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin and Park were unaware of Kim Yong’s escape, and they had no way to gauge the odds of getting out of Camp 14 or of finding safe passage to China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Nor did he know much about roads that could lead them safely to China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Thus, while Austronesian languages in China may not have survived the onslaught of Chinese dynasties, some of their sister and cousin languages did. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Different wild plants are native to these disparate environments and would thus have been variously available to incipient farmers in various parts of China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China lit a cigarette and cooled her irons. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z China has been Chinese, almost from the beginnings of its recorded history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Along the way to China, the Muslims conquered India. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z “People there only dream that it is China, because if you are Chinese you can never let go of China in your mind.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When letters could be openly exchanged between China and the United States, she wrote immediately to old friends in Shanghai and Kweilin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother says July is not a good time to go to China on our honeymoon. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was from China that the techniques of rice cultivation spread throughout East Asia—Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Her husband looked like one of the ghosts passing the car windows, and she must look like a ghost from China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Even when he heard juicy tidbits about the lives of defectors in China and South Korea, there was no one to share it with. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Surveys of recent defectors in China have found that this fear is persistent and almost universal. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I don’t know why, but I was totally into Mei-li’s story about China and wanted to get down every single word she said. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Especially in the experience of Japanese archaeologists, China is regarded as the source of cultural breakthroughs in East Asia, such as agriculture, writing, metallurgy, and everything else of significance. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He liked to hear of how Japan was conquering China; of how Hitler was running the Jews to the ground; of how Mussolini was invading Spain. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “If he’s done by next September that’ll be only five years. Including his master’s! Of course, he was able to transfer a lot of credits from China.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He jumped backward onto firm ice and crawled the rest of the way to China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I had never seen cows in China but it was not the cows themselves that impressed me. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, I was once again chosen for the national team and selected to compete on behalf of my country at the World Championships, which would be held in Nanning, China, in October. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z You’ve learned, however, that sending your thoughts to China is not always a good thing. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Breakfast in South China, at least for those who could afford it, was congee—white rice porridge’with lettuce and dace paste and bamboo shoots. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z In China, a person’s character was believed written in her face; a prospective bride’s picture was studied under good light. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Writing arose independently only in the Fertile Crescent, Mexico, and probably China precisely because those were the first areas where food production emerged in their respective hemispheres. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He opened his eyes to see the Bishop of Bath and Wells shouting at the Emperor of China. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z And yet, while it’s five in the morning here, it’s also five in the evening somewhere in China—proving that incompatible truths make perfect sense when seen with global perspective. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z Clear from China they’d come, a whole country to settle in; who could believe they’d find themselves sharing a soda machine? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At the least, we can say that China was one of the world’s first centers of plant and animal domestication. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In China I’d had nothing to do with the work of the house. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The buildings are just like they are in China. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z How many mill towns saw their mills close; how many shoe towns saw the shoe industry move elsewhere; how many towns that were once textile powerhouses now buy all their linens from China? The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Porcelain, a fine-grained translucent pottery, was invented in China around the 7th century A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The risk of such an exodus increases as China’s economy soars, North Korea’s sinks, and word spreads that life is better in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z We kept the scarves he’d brought us back from China when we were two years old, silks with a graceful pattern of cranes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Bod found himself being introduced to the 33rd President of the United States and the Emperor of China. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Rice has been cultivated in China for thousands of years. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The concessions didn’t look like the rest of China. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The world of sugar centered on the Muslim Mediterranean, but it also stretched as far as China to the east and even Europe to the north. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “You mustn’t open this,” she said, “until you have left China.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet fossils attest to human presence in China for over half a million years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China also transmitted West Asian wheat and barley to Korea and Japan. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In thus describing China’s seminal role in East Asian civilization, we should not exaggerate. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When defectors cross into China, the first “foreigners” they encounter are usually ethnic Koreans who speak the same language, eat similar food, and share some of the same cultural values. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z While Hitler’s forces overran Europe, Japan was on the attack in China and Southeast Asia. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z But archaeologists studying Jomon Japan have found little evidence of direct imports from China, in contrast to China’s big influence on subsequent Japanese history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There is nothing in this picture that shows it was taken in China rather than San Francisco, or any other city for that matter. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Without a job, Park traveled north to the border with his wife, where they illegally crossed into China and stayed with his uncle for eighteen months. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He had heard on the radio that Korean churches in China sometimes helped defectors. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “It’s a good thing I taught you children to look after yourselves. We’re not going back to China for sure now.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His guard post was near a bridge that crossed into China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z It was also the landmass with the two centers where food production began the earliest: the Fertile Crescent and China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The rocket began, like the gunpowder that first powered it, in China where it was used for ceremonial and aesthetic purposes. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried to convince them that he wasn’t a defector, that he had merely been visiting family in China and was coming home to vote. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I’m not sure, but I think one of them is the new flag of China.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z There were demonstrations and marches and agitators haranguing about how foreigners ought to be kicked out of China and how poor people should take money from the rich. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nearly all Chinese get sent home to China after they die.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Of those advances—in paper, movable type, metallurgy, presses, inks, and scripts—paper and the idea of movable type reached Europe from China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I could even smell China, and it was the smell of food cooking, of steam rising from so many rice bowls it hung in a mist over the land. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was a common punishment in Imperial China,” said O’Brien as didactically as ever. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Those homelands were the Fertile Crescent and China in Eurasia, and the Andes and Amazonia, Mesoamerica, and the eastern United States in the Americas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were those who deduced that the Egyptians were colonists from ancient China. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The answer may have important consequences for how best to govern China and Europe today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “What’s this got to do with the price of eggs in China, and you know exactly what I mean.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z The red boundary that marked the Eastern Region swept within its grand confines all that had once been China, India, Burma, Indo-China, and Indonesia. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z “We may be in China, for all I know.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to the word BIRTHPLACE, I put down Taiyuan, China. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Women in the old China did not choose. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z How could those Austronesian-speaking farmers from South China via Taiwan replace the original hunter-gatherer population of the Philippines and western Indonesia so completely that little genetic and no linguistic evidence of that original population survived? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He described the enchantments of chicken, pork, and beef in China, Hong Kong, Germany, England, and the former Soviet Union. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z One decision stopped fleets over the whole of China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On an afternoon in 1969 the platoon took sniper fire from a filthy little village along the South China Sea. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the camera is zooming in on that marble, the blue becoming water, then land, then children in Africa and Texas and China and Spain and sometimes, New York City! Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Why not in the great cities of India or Egypt, Babylonia, China or Mesoamerica? Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But China’s so big,” he’d say, as if he were apologizing for having come so far and doing so little. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z People said we were on course for southern Siberia, or possibly even China or Mongolia. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z If patent rights, capitalism, and certain religions do promote technology, what selected for those factors in postmedieval Europe but not in contemporary China or India? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I glanced at David, woebegone as always, but I knew he wasn’t sad at leaving Mr. Hull or at leaving China. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean like I know in China they eat cat meat and dog meat.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z This was not a bad thing to do in China back then, to kill a baby before it is born. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When I dream that I am wire without flesh, there is a letter on blue airmail paper that floats above the night ocean between here and China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The only Europeans who knew tea were those few who worked in India, China, or Japan. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Milkfish farming in the Philippines, China, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, and India faces a similar problem. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Technology’s course over the last 1,000 years in China, Europe, and possibly the Indian subcontinent exemplifies those net effects of high, moderate, and low connectedness, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t turned in my Chapter Review Map on the culture of China to Mr. McElroy, and no, I didn’t know if I was going to get it done or not. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z “But that’s not a good thing to talk about,” said the Emperor of China. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z At the one extreme, Mandarin and its relatives, which constitute the Chinese subfamily of the Sino-Tibetan language family, are distributed continuously from North to South China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I think the mind that could think this story was a curiously divine mind. We have had a few such minds in China too.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Korea and Japan adopted rice from China in the second millennium B.C., bronze metallurgy by the first millennium B.C., and writing in the first millennium A.D. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The buildings are just like they are in China. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, wolves were independently domesticated to become dogs in the Americas and probably in several different parts of Eurasia, including China and Southwest Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Two years ago, she had tried to evict them on the pretext that relatives from China were coming to live there. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Eleanor imagined Park's dad, Tom Selleck, tucking his Dainty China person into his flak jacket and sneaking her out of Korea. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z However, even those barriers between China and western Eurasia were at least partly overcome during the second millennium B.C., when West Asian wheat, barley, and horses reached China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Not when we were afraid, but when we were wide awake and lucid, my mother funneled China into our ears: Kwang- tung Province, New Society Village, the river Kwoo, which runs past the village. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On February 6, 2006—a year and a week after he’d crossed the frozen Tumen River into China—Shin arrived in Hangzhou, a city of about six million in the Yangtze River Delta. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Two hours in, at the headwaters of the Pearl River, lies the city of Guangzhou, and past Guangzhou, remnants of the old China are easier to find. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her family home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, for all such proximate causes one must raise the question of ultimate cause: why did these proximate factors themselves arise in Europe, rather than in China or the Fertile Crescent? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Outside of Europe, in places such as China, Arabia, and Mexico, people enjoyed their hot drinks plain. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Twenty times more Neolithic sites have thereby been discovered in Japan than in the whole of China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Genetic differences arising in those differing environments imply a long history of moderate isolation between peoples of North and South China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I learn that Burma is the largest country in Southeast Asia, that it borders India and China and Siam. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He had been cheated, but like all North Koreans working in China he was in no position to protest. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Sometimes I wondered what had ever made her come to China. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z North and South China differ in environment and climate as well: the north is drier and colder; the south, wetter and hotter. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She stared longingly into the boundless gray distance as if far, far on the other side of Lake Michigan lay China. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, Jean,” my father said, “some people in Washington don’t know any better. China seems so far away they imagine strange things.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z With the instinct for ordeal that characterized the age, scientists set off for more than a hundred locations around the globe–to Siberia, China, South Africa, Indonesia, and the woods of Wisconsin, among many others. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “When your father lived in China,” Brave Orchid told the children, “he refused to eat pastries because he didn’t want to eat the dirt the women kneaded from between their fingers.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “How would you feel if you were plunked right down in China in a small village with almost no hope of going back? Wouldn’t you be scared?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “She was telling us the story about a man and woman in China.” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The nearest thing to an exception is the dog, originally domesticated as a sentinel and hunting companion, but breeds of dogs were developed and raised for food in Aztec Mexico, Polynesia, and ancient China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z While in China, Park listened daily to radio broadcasts from South Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The American gymnasts, famously nicknamed the Fierce Five, had just won artistic team gold at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, ahead of the gymnastics powerhouse nations of Russia, Romania, and China. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z The old man said his life had been much easier when he lived in China, where food and work were easy to find. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She would love to go to China with us. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z How did she know her daughters were in Shanghai and not somewhere else in China? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z China had had writing for at least 900 years, and metal tools for at least 1,500 years, and had just invented the world’s first cast-iron production. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After six months of paperwork and a background check, government officials—especially if they received bribes—would sometimes issue certificates to traders that allowed them to cross back and forth into China legally. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z She was happy and reassured by the message from ancient China, because it meant that what she wanted most to do was exactly, at that moment, what she should do. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The typical peasant in traditional China ate rice for breakfast, rice for lunch, and rice for dinner. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In China, the Old Man had told us, there are days reserved for grave cleaning, where you make gifts to the dead. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z China then ceased to be innovative for reasons about which we shall speculate in the Epilogue. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One could walk through China, from Manchuria in the north to the Gulf of Tonkin in the south, while remaining entirely within land occupied by native speakers of Mandarin and its relatives. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She must have brought it from China because I do not remember a time when I did not have the hand to look at. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither China nor North Korea released figures, but estimates of these economic migrants ranged from tens of thousands to four hundred thousand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They made rough movements, and their accents were not American exactly, but peasant like their mother’s, as if they had come from a village deep inside China. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Big Ma cooked the food in the food groups and said, “Kids are starving in Africa, India, and China, so eat every bit.” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z One of those movements, within China itself, created the political and cultural phenomenon of China as we know it today. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Last I heard, your father was running a bank in China.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Europe’s fragmentation did, and China’s unity didn’t, foster the advance of technology, science, and capitalism by fostering competition between states and providing innovators with alternative sources of support and havens from persecution. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a belated admission that tens of thousands of famine-stricken North Koreans had already gone to China and that the country was increasingly dependent on their remittances. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He had been schooled in Europe and had lived in China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Later, China’s imperial government recruited Korean farmers to create a buffer against Russian expansion, and Korea’s Choson Dynasty allowed them to depart legally. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Since then, Pyongyang has become increasingly dependent on China for concessional trade, food aid, and fuel. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Africa was two weeks away from England by boat and it took you about five weeks to get to China. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Unlike China, Europe has many scattered small core areas, none big enough to dominate the others for long, and each the center of chronically independent states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z At the same time, the U.S. government banned the import of wigs that contained hair from China. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z If you were a peasant farmer in Southern China, by contrast, you didn’t sleep through the winter. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z His real name was listed as “Henry Swanson,” but that was an alias used by Jack Burton in Big Trouble in Little China, so I knew it must be a fake. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Cuba is like China; both are led by regimes that call themselves communist. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z To that end, Shin said he had twice traveled to border areas inside China and planned to do so again. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Their languages are of course much more numerous than the eight dominant Chinese languages of mainland China, but are no more diverse. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By 1839, so many of the Chinese were addicts that China’s desperate government destroyed twenty thousand chests of opium. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z A glance at it is an eye-opener to all of us accustomed to thinking of China as monolithic. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “We want to know if you ate rats in China and what they tasted like.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z China differs only by having been unified much earlier. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One of the heroes admired by all, who helped Chairman Mao liberate China from oppression and defeated the Americans in Korea. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In California, Shin began giving God all the credit for his escape from Camp 14 and for his good fortune in finding a way out of North Korea and China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Father moved wife’s entire family from China to California to form support system. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z To his amazement, China was a place where even dogs seemed well fed, and if he ran low on cash to buy food, he begged. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I knew that in English it wouldn’t sound so bad but in China this was an insult. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Now contrast those events in China with what happened when fleets of exploration began to sail from politically fragmented Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z China was dusted and neatly stacked in a glass-fronted cabinet; the silverware was filed away in the kitchen drawers nearest the sink. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve read quite a lot about China. You born in China?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “He thinks this is China! As if there are beggars here!” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Hence the history of China offers the key to the history of all of East Asia. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Before the United States entered World War Two, there were a bunch of American pilots in China. They were called the Flying Tigers. They flew those planes with the shark teeth on the nose.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z The boulders show and seem to rise up and the ocean recedes leaving little pools, leaving wet weed and moss and sponge, iridescence and brown and blue and China red. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Modern pigs are derived from independent sequences of domestication in China, western Eurasia, and possibly other areas as well. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Do that one more time, you’re going to the Fire Swamp” is as common as “Clean your plate; people are starving in China.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z This has been going on since the late 1860s, when famine struck North Korea and starving farmers fled across the Tumen and the Yalu rivers into northeast China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z "Publicly rescue the Americans? Put a Chinese astronaut on Mars? Have the world see China as equal to the US in space? The State Council would sell their own mothers for that." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z One, a color film, depicted the People’s Republic of China in celebration of its Fourteenth Anniversary. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z "For to go to China," she said timidly, setting a scarf-tied bundle on the desk. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Before World War II, the Japanese who occupied the Korean Peninsula and northeast China pushed tens of thousands of Korean farmers across the border to weaken China’s hold on the region. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z One is the world of the thing they study: the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop, the development of language in children, the Taiping Rebellion in China. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z My mother could sense that the women of these families also had unspeakable tragedies they had left behind in China and hopes they couldn’t begin to express in their fragile English. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z All three of China’s first three dynasties, the Xia and Shang and Zhou Dynasties, arose in North China in the second millennium B.C. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Likewise, even though we know that in early seventh-century China ‘orchestras’ of instruments played together, what they played is guesswork. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “First we were oppressed by the Japanese; now we are caught between Russia and China on one side, and the Americans on the other. When will free Koreans control our own destiny?” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z Hsu had come to America from China, and English wasn’t her native language. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He could tell she was worried, and not wanting to hang around in case he annoyed her, he quickly picked out a murder story and a book about China and said good-bye. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Park, dead on the fence, had not told him where he might find China. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I unfold a sheet of paper with the Monroe Poland China Farm crest on it and see it is dated this morning. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, China very early became dominated by two huge geographic core areas of high productivity, themselves only weakly separated from each other and eventually fused into a single core. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When we had not banged lids at the last eclipse and the shadow kept receding anyway, she’d said, “The villagers must be banging and clanging very loudly back home in China.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Once China was finally unified, in 221 B.C., no other independent state ever had a chance of arising and persisting for long in China. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Maginot Line yawned and said, “Come on, China. We can’t hang in here all day. Them people be home soon.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Then in China between the second and sixth centuries, paper, ink and printing with carved wooden blocks were all invented, permitting many copies of a work to be made and distributed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I mean, hers isn’t twelve feet tall. But she imports stuff...from China. We’re Chinese.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As elsewhere in the world, in China food production gradually led to the other hallmarks of “civilization” discussed in Chapters 11—14. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z There were a dozen scarlet coffee bins with adventurous words written across the front in black China ink: Brazil! A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Once, there was a China rabbit who was loved by a little girl. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z Even though China actually had the biggest economy in the world in the eighteenth century, it was Western countries, companies, and explorers who were doing most of the globalizing and shaping of the system. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Preschool in three cultures—Japan, China, and the United States. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z In the Pacific, Japan was tearing through China and moving into Indochina. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Once Lin Nai-Nai came home and told my mother that a wonderful thing was going to happen in China. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In the process, China would lose a key buffer between one of its poorest regions and a united, affluent, and West-oriented Korea. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In Mesopotamia, North China, Mexico, and Madagascar, small-scale irrigation systems already existed before the rise of states. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Thereafter, Chinese-derived crops, Neolithic technology, village living, and pottery similar to that of South China spread into tropical Southeast Asia, probably accompanied by South China’s language families. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Compared with the tens of millions of people in ancient China or Mesoamerica, that meant that Australia had far fewer potential inventors, and far fewer societies to experiment with adopting innovations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why, in brief, did China lose its technological lead to the formerly so backward Europe? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Would Neanderthals have been able to serve in the Roman legions, or in the sprawling bureaucracy of imperial China? Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We know from a mid-seventeenth-century account of an “Embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, to the Grand Tartar, Cham, Emperor of China.” Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Still farther east, temperate areas of China were isolated from western Eurasian areas with similar climates by the combination of the Central Asian desert, Tibetan plateau, and Himalayas. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z From the beginnings of literacy in China, it has had only a single writing system, whereas modern Europe uses dozens of modified alphabets. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z It would dramatically worsen poverty in China’s three northeast provinces, which have largely missed out on the wealth generated by the country’s economic boom. 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