| 单词 | Chinese |
| 例句 | “Your sisters have already gone to see Old Mr. Chou,” my mother would whisper in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Ivanito watches his mother put on her flannel nightgown then wrap herself in a frayed Chinese tunic embroidered with chrysanthemums, a onetime gift from his father. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z My daughter did not look pleased when I told her this, that she didn’t look Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "Just celebrating the Chinese New Year," Otis Amber shouted, adding one of his he-he-he cackles. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The way Americans in general like to move around, the Chinese love to hold still; removal is a fall and an exile. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “When you come back?” the Chinese asked softly. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Nearly all Chinese get sent home to China after they die.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “She’s a Chinese baby. She’s going to grow up not knowing anything about her heritage. How is she going to know who she is?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z As part of my initial training I watched him work a Chinese graduate student at Columbia. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Can you use this one?” she asked eagerly, showing me a book written—I didn’t know till later—in Chinese. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z As the two Chinese were reading it, they would stop now and then and mutter something to each other. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z There are too many books and not enough shelves to hold them, so they sit piled on antique Chinese chairs and sari-wrapped cushions. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Indeed, a famed Chinese scholar had once named twelve small wonders of the world; eleven of them were Chinese, and the twelfth was the color of Korean celadon pottery! A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z But today I realize I’ve never really known what it means to be Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z All the inspectors seemed bewitched by the lovely, slim Chinese woman who was in such a hurry. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z A very old Chinese gentleman was sitting in a rocking chair next to the window. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I was surrounded by diverse bodies and faces; I was hearing Spanish in one ear and Chinese in the other. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z In January they took over the British concession and returned it to the Chinese. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z An elderly Chinese woman, dwarfed by the floral armchair she sat in, was fixated on the screen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Here there were black girls with white boys, and black boys with Chinese-American girls, and Chinese- American girls with Dominican boys, and Dominican boys with Jamaican boys and every other imaginable combination. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He talked to them in Cantonese, and Chinese words were the first they recognized and tried to repeat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Good for you,” he mutters in Chinese as I read my translation of his words. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They wore embroidered caftans and spicy perfume, their Chinese weaves hanging down to their backs, their conversation lined with a hard-edged worldliness, their laughter short and scornful. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The Chinese shattered MacArthur's armies, causing thousands of casualties and forcing the Americans back beyond the 38th parallel in barely more than two weeks. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z It is generally thought that Chinese astronomy thereafter underwent a steep decline. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But if they looked really close, if they knew that they were there, they could see the Chinese parts. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Cannot be helped,” my mother said when I was fifteen and had vigorously denied that I had any Chinese whatsoever below my skin. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “My authentic Chinese face got me in the door. South Pacific, a local production. You know, ‘Happy talk, keep talkin’, happy talk.’ Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z No other Chinese, neither the ones in Sacramento, nor the ones in San Francisco, nor Hawaii speak like us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The high point in indigenous Chinese astronomy occurred around 1280, with the work of Kuo Shou-ching, who used an observational baseline of 1,500 years and improved both astronomical instruments and mathematical techniques for computation. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “American people think Chinese people write these sayings.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In this domain, the prize for efficacy goes to the Cantonese dialect of Chinese, whose brevity grants residents of Hong Kong a rocketing memory span of about 10 digits. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Sherrie was a tall woman, certainly tall for a Chinese woman, and to her credit there was no sign of that adolescent high-back slouch in her stance. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn’t think we were poor. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Enlistees from Allied countries, like Chinese medical officers and the first Caribbean Regiment, presented themselves to the port’s commanding officers before shipping out. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “So tell me, Mr. Lee—if we took our constellations and broke them up into bits, and then reassembled them using the pieces of the different constellations, we would get the Chinese constellations?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z “It was like a joke to him. I heard him tell that Chinese dude to take the kick, ’cause he was tired of scoring.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z After breakfast we walked on top of the wall that separated the Hulls’ property from the Chinese farms. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There were many Chinese there, like her father, and Italians like her mother’s family. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z No. Did I take the wand of my vacuum cleaner and smash someone’s Chinese porcelain statues or Hummel figurines? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 The depth and width of Joy were exactly known to me: the Chinese population. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I paid no attention; it was just more Chinese- fighting talk. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Leo wanted to think that an old Chinese belief couldn’t have anything to do with the Romans and the Greeks. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z It serves the best Chinese food east of the Mississippi. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Of course he couldn’t read the Chinese characters, but there were pictures in the book too. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Shirley needed the time for Mabel to realize that the Chinese had not squealed, and therefore her skin and bones deserved to stay intact. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The Cathay House had a sign that said “Chinese Food,” so only Americans went there before it was torn down. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I joined in at lunchtime when the other students, the Chinese too, talked about whether or not she was mute, although obviously she was not if she could read aloud. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Scared the hell out of him so that when he was up again he joined the church and bought himself a Chinese missionary, five thousand dollars a year. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Windows for wings that flutter up and down like the windows inside Chinese restaurants and post offices in neighborhoods where school buses are spaceships. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Its cultural unification accelerated during that same period, as literate “civilized” Chinese states absorbed, or were copied by, the illiterate “barbarians.” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For years, that was all I knew about the Hazaras, that they were Mogul descendants, and that they looked a little like Chinese people. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I closed my eyes and remembered that he and his mother lived on Magnolia Street near Mean Lady Ming’s Chinese takeout. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z On the morning of the day we were supposed to arrive in Tientsin, she went into our sleeping cabin wearing her white Chinese mourning dress. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z If it weren’t for that Chinese man, she might not be here today, or her husband either. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She loved eating out, so we agreed to meet for lunch at her favorite Chinese restaurant. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z At the back of the room there was a large folding screen with Chinese dragons painted on it. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z Lee, his pigtailed Chinese cook, had made a special trip to Pajaro to buy the pots and kettles and pans, kegs, jars, copper, and glass for his kitchen. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It might tell how many pounds of rice a typical Chinese person eats in a lifetime. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The lady shouted in Chinese to the back of the kitchen. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Stella and John came over in the evening and we ordered in some Chinese food. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z There was a Chinese man who didn't speak much English and couldn't read it. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z 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 Many members of the hostile class were resettled to distant provinces along the Chinese border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z More complex units don’t always conquer less complex ones but may succumb to them, as when the Roman and Chinese Empires were overrun by “barbarian” and Mongol chiefdoms, respectively. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The Chinese wanted to break into a gallop but Samuel restrained him. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Neither Elizebeth nor her team was fluent in Chinese, but Elizebeth had learned some basic characters while breaking another drug case earlier that year. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z While we were arguing about what was Chinese and what was Japanese, I noticed this family of five tall blond people standing near us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z So overwhelming was this Chinese steamroller that the former peoples of tropical Southeast Asia have left behind few traces in the region’s modern populations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z And as the lady set the plates in front of us, piled up with Chinese goodness, Coach quickly gathered all our forks and knives. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “We took the best- performing Chinese data operators,” said Ohmae, “and now they are processing seventy houses a day.” The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z My mother is not smiling; Chinese do not smile for photographs. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But they kept pouring out anyway in the voice like Chinese opera. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z For decades, Chinese immigrants and people of Chinese descent had faced severe discrimination, so few worked in federal jobs or moved in government circles. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z By its nature and its size Texas invites generalities, and the generalities usually end up as paradox—the “little oF country boy” at a symphony, the booted and blue-jeaned ranchman in Neiman-Marcus, buying Chinese jades. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The applicant wrote his name and was then handed a newspaper in Chinese to test his reading. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Besides, I couldn’t go from planning to sock him to asking him about being a colored Chinese boy in one good blink. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z At Ellis Island when the ghost asked Brave Orchid what year her husband had cut off his pigtail, a Chinese who was crouching on the floor motioned her not to talk. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the rest of us, she wanted to serve suppers, and scold servants, and set aside money in her almari to have her eyebrows threaded every three weeks at the Chinese beauty parlor. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z So Japanese people were given honorary white status while Chinese people stayed black. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z All of a sudden the Chinese gentleman began to squeak with excitement. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z "No kidding! Do you like that? Her being Chinese?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Besides, she had a soft spot for anyone who was seeking knowledge—even about something as simple as Chinese handcuffs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Now we could say we had real Chinese fortune cookies in Chinatown. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Very carefully I carved the Chinese character that was our name. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z My older sisters had dated only Chinese boys from church before getting married. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, in fact, we do. We have The Five Chinese Brothers—it’s a beautiful retelling of a famous Chinese folktale.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She filled an electric kettle, and while she spooned instant coffee into two mugs Lyra stared at the Chinese pattern on the back of the door. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z We have no mail, just a Chinese take-out menu wedged into the door. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z These contained thousands of Chinese characters, with a unique four-digit number assigned to each one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Instead of letting them start separate new lives like the Japanese, who could become samurais and geishas, the Chinese family, faces averted but eyes glowering sideways, hung on to the offenders and fed them leftovers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of Chinese lanterns hung from trees and railings. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z JING-MEI WOO Best Quality Five months ago, after a crab dinner celebrating Chinese New Year, my mother gave me my “life’s importance,” a jade pendant on a gold chain. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z After consulting with Chinese speakers, she and her team were able to crack key portions of that message within a week. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The Chinese are always very frightened of the drowned one, whose weeping ghost, wet hair hanging and skin bloated, waits silently by the water to pull down a substitute. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have always believed in your blessings,” she praised God in that same tone she used for exaggerated Chinese compliments. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel a little like that Chinese princess, whose discovery gave Desdemona her livelihood. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I don’t know exactly when things switched over to the Chinese calendar—Year of the Dog, Year of the Goat, the Dragon, and so on. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Rich was not only not Chinese, he was a few years younger than 1 was. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z All those modern peoples are recent offshoots of their South Chinese cousins. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Why are you attracted only to Chinese nonsense? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z So we settled on Mei Mei, the Chinese word for Little Sister, which I liked better anyway. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Mia ran down to the side door, and Pearl heard a murmur of voices and crying, and then her mother came into the kitchen followed by a young Chinese woman, who was sobbing. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We had gone to the annual Christmas party held at the First Chinese Baptist Church at the end of the alley. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Such stores are run, now, by people the color of Mr. Banerji, or by Chinese people. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z After bowing three times before the red altar decorated with gold and silver Chinese symbols of peace and happiness, they inserted the incense into a yellow clay bowl filled with rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The following 1,500 years saw the outpouring of Chinese technological inventions, mentioned in Chapter 13, that included paper, the compass, the wheelbarrow, and gunpowder. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One book, The Gay Genius, by Lin Yutang, told the story of Su Tung Po, the Chinese poet, artist, philosopher, and civil servant. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The young woman in the house—Shin found out she was the farmer’s mistress—cooked for him and taught him rudimentary Chinese. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z They ran across the street and squeezed between the Korean/Brazilian truck and a Chinese egg roll burrito vendor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The babies that spoke no Chinese at all, she decided, were the grandchildren. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 At the bottom, wrapped in a silk scarf, was a book she’d had for twenty years: a commentary on the Chinese method of divination, the I Ching. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I think the only children who thought he was the real thing were too young to know that Santa Claus was not Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Annh! Why do you Americans have only these morbid thoughts in your mind?” cried my mother in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z An hour later, there are several cartons of Chinese food and a PowerPoint cued up. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z He kept all the Jewish deli and soda fountain touches and then added nouvelle Chinese to the menu. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z We lived on Waverly Place, in a warm, clean, two-bedroom flat that sat above a small Chinese bakery specializing in steamed pastries and dim sum. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He also eats the gall bladders of bears when he can get them at the Chinese apothecary shop near his apartment. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In the Chinese culture it is believed that if you speak of someone’s death out loud, it will come true. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t get a dead one,” warned my mother in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Ac-cording to what I seen in this here movie most the folks in Flint is Chinese. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z There was only one problem: the girl was still young, eighteen, and much more self-centered than most Chinese girls. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Twenty or more Chinese, imported from Pajaro, a few bums, six or eight drummers, who, being strangers, were not warned, fell into the police net, were booked, jailed, and in the morning fined and released. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A sonogram with hawthorne, zooey printed across the bottom clung to the refrigerator door—held in place by a magnet from our favorite Chinese takeout joint. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z No one ever comes to school with Chinese takeout. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z “Chinese smeared bad daughters-in-law with honey and tied them naked on top of ant nests,” my father said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I extended my prodigal ways beyond Chinese food. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And then to me, during a silence she felt obliged to fill, “I just love Chinese food.” Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A man on the dole must be ready in case another man on the dole brings up Hitler or Mussolini or the terrible state of the Chinese millions. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z People had been known to have followed the hobo paths and parted the tall stalks to find dead bodies—hobos, Chinese suicides, children. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn't speak German or read Hebrew or write Chinese. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Every time I went with her to Chinatown, she pointed out other Chinese women her age. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Why didn’t Chinese ships cross the Pacific to colonize the Americas’ west coast? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “So many questions. For instance, you wear the queue. I’ve read that it is a badge of slavery imposed by conquest by the Manchus on the Southern Chinese.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He had intended to go back to his apartment after the drink, and study, and order in some Chinese food. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It was an obvious evil and most of the games were operated by Chinese. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Ralph looked like a little Chinese baby with his square black bangs and his black eyes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The Jamaican children would taunt the Chinese children. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z "She made up her so-called wasting disease, I call that crazy. Nothing was wrong with her legs until the explosion in the Chinese restaurant." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z The preceding paragraph gave examples of blueprint copying, whereas the transfer of Chinese porcelain technology to Europe provides an instance of long-drawn-out idea diffusion. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But, unlike Indians, there weren’t enough Chinese people to warrant devising a whole separate classification. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z How to speak—not just English but Chinese. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z He later learned they were Chinese border patrol soldiers. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Chinese guys, those rich guys, they have as many wives they like. I’m talking about those guys, really rich. “So my grandmother’s father, he has ten, twenty wives. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z David had her looking like a picture he’d seen of a Chinese junk in the harbor at Hong Kong, with several families living on the boat, drying their laundry in the rigging. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The man, a Chinese farmer who spoke some Korean, invited Shin inside and ordered a young woman to cook rice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid pointed out the red, green, and gold Chinese school. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z One month later we had a ceremony in the First Chinese Baptist Church, where we met. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The sound of food sizzling and the neon sign flickering in the window, Chinese food, open. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In the 1850s, Chinese workers were not well paid, but neither were they slaves. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I turned to Marie and said in Chinese, “Your mother is a big turtle.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In close quarters, relationships count so heavily that to say something has no relationship in Chinese — mei guanxi — is to mean, often as not, it doesn’t matter. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z The sinks had been built of gray marble for the old Chinese men who boarded here before we came. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She had an estranged Chinese husband and a child. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The kitchen smelled of wet newspapers and Chinese fragrances. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat by Samuel and from his box took a wedge-shaped Chinese razor. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I dreamed about Kweilin before I ever saw it,” my mother began, speaking Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “She’s not just a baby,” protested one woman, when Channel 5 sent a reporter to Asia Plaza, Cleveland’s Chinese shopping center, in search of the Asian perspective. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And then in Chinese: “Money is a bad influence. You become restless and rob graves.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Luck, like most everything else, must be a Chinese invention. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He taught her to say thank you in Chinese. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “We can research for our recipe at the food court. They have stands from all over the world. Mexican, sushi, Chinese, bubble tea.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Nia was in our class; she was half Chinese and half Jewish; she dressed well. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z In the corners was a description written in Chinese, and since I couldn’t read the characters, I could only see what the picture meant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 “It’s the Communists who are doing this. They’re the ones who are making the Chinese so mad.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She still spoke Chinese with her parents, but even then foreign words were substituted for those that did not come easily. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “Umami is a savory taste. Think of excellent Chinese food, a steak, or a perfectly ripe tomato.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z No, it’s not true what some Chinese say about girl babies being worthless. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z That year, Chinese New Year fell on a Thursday, so I got off work early to help my mother shop. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Until it’s turned: one day he found out through Arthur Smith that the woods behind their house had been bought by a Chinese developer. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Brave Orchid wondered if the girl knew that her husband had a Chinese wife. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Crows cawed, sundown was near, but his home was not; the lane of Chinese elms had turned into a tunnel of darkening green, and he lived at the end of it, half a mile away. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She has on an ankle-length Chinese dress with modest vents at the side. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Ma also has to be extra careful because she speaks Khmer with a Chinese accent. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there were my fights at Chinese school. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Many grew plants from their native lands—huge Chinese melons, ginger, cilantro, a green the Jamaicans call calaloo, and many more. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z While we were arguing about what was Chinese and what was Japanese, I noticed this family of five tall blond people standing near us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Rich said it was the best Chinese food he has ever tasted,” I wrote. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z On the third bus, a man boarded with an open cardboard container of, judging by the aroma, Chinese food. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z It was remarkably similar to Houston's, though Teddy couldn't read any of the Chinese text on the big screens. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore narrow cotton trousers, black heelless slippers, and a frogged Chinese smock. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He took the family to a picnic of the Society of Chinese Engineers — something he’d always avoided before — and ate tea eggs. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Califor-nia Chinese, Boston Irish, Wisconsin German, yes, and Alabama Negroes, have more in common than they have apart. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z This might mean working with broad categories of Chinese, Indian or West African music, or narrow sub-cultures such as hip-hop music, Motown sound from the 1960s, or even the sound of an individual singer. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z "My wife will be serving a Chinese tea lunch shortly." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Make an effort, Shirley. You must not forget you are still Chinese.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It was time the others stepped aside for the Chinese. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z I don’t know any Chinese I can ask without getting myself scolded or teased, so I’ve been looking in books. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I take the letter with shaking hands, marveling at how smart my sisters must be to be able to read and write Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A white family would separate a Chinese child from her culture. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Her words seemed to be Chinese, but the barbarians understood their sadness and anger. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Tonight's our family dim sum dinner at Lola's favorite Chinese place. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z I’m not Chinese, Frank thought, but he didn’t dare say that. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In perfectly straight vertical rows I see Chinese characters written in blue fountain-pen ink. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve told kids that I spoke Chinese before I spoke English and they believed me after I showed them the house,” Ben said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The teller gave the Chinese guy a bag of cash, he gave it to the guy in the car, and soon after he was arrested while still waiting for his bus. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z They are all examples of Western music, and are all more like each other than they are like a Navajo lullaby, a Chinese opera, or a west African praise song. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Pyce wants my father to allow something he disagrees with. If Pyce controls me, my father has to acquiesce. Pyce stands to make billions, and not in dollars. Chinese red cash. Billions.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Chubs’s long legs dug into the back of my seat, and the car smelled like old Chinese food. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z A market where his grandmother buys oysters for Chinese New Year. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The others exclaimed that they too loved Chinese food, and we talked about recipes and restaurants until the music faded in: Girl of my dreams, I love you, Honest I do, You are so sweet. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chinese people are very weird,” they told one another. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That, too, had involved a Chinese message—a very long one. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “All Chinese are related, and the ones named Lee are closest,” said Lee. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Chinese lady behind the counter said, “No free egg rolls. No more free egg rolls.” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why didn’t you want the boys to learn Chinese, Adam?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There are Jamaican jerk restaurants, bulletproofed Chinese restaurants, bulletproofed liquor stores, discount clothing stores, and beauty salons. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Chinese sites with the earliest evidence of crops also contained bones of domestic pigs, dogs, and chickens. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Then it’s the ethnic Vietnamese, Chinese, and other minority groups who are considered racially corrupt. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z This is what Chinese druggists normally do, except they give raisins. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Leefolt finally get up from that wall vent, drag herself on in the kitchen, flapping a Chow-Chow Chinese Restaurant fan. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Even today, only cottonwoods and Chinese elms—perennials with a cactuslike indifference to thirst—are commonly planted. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m very fond of Chinese food myself,” said Harry Cat. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Pointing to the map in Major Cooper’s arms, Wheeler described a more aggressive alternative: mine North Vietnamese harbors to block Soviet and Chinese ships bringing in military supplies. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Thus, European potters had to reinvent Chinese manufacturing methods for themselves, but they were stimulated to do so by having models of the desired product before them. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Typical expression,” said Ralph absentmindedly, and went back to talking to Helen in Chinese. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I was just starting to wonder if they even had Chinese restaurants in Australia, when Dad said, “Oh, hey. I just read about something you might be interested in.” The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Friends who had previously expressed no interest in torture began sending letters composed to resemble Chinese take-out menus and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Did you know, Emma,” she said, “that the Greeks have their own version of Cinderella, much older than the one we tell today? And the Egyptians and the Chinese, too?” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z So much for stories of Chinese women looking young forever, I think to myself. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She and Auntie An-mei were dressed up in funny Chinese dresses with stiff stand-up collars and blooming branches of embroidered silk sewn over their breasts. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "All right, but listen. Take you and this Chinese babe. What's so good about you two?" The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He found the Chinese Palm Court, complete with not only live palm trees but high white-plastered rococo ceilings, marble columns, delicate hand-painted Asian wall murals, and Chippendale furniture. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I looked across to a lighted case of Chinese design which held delicate-looking statues of horses and birds, small vases and bowls, each set upon a carved wooden base. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they can’t be easily translated because they refer to a sensation that only Chinese people have, as if you were falling headfirst through Old Mr. Chou’s door, then trying to find your way back. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby deliberately varied the kinds of food he ate: Japanese, Chinese, Indian, Hungarian, even Kosher, alternating restaurants every night. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z It had two sleeping cots, a wooden table, two straight-backed chairs, a window, and shelves nailed to the walls where Nana placed clay pots and her beloved Chinese tea set. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z I asked her, “Ma, what is Chinese torture?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z At first my mother thought I could be a Chinese Shirley Temple. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They went for Chinese food together and had a good time. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z I don’t see how them Chinese people go to school seven days out of the week. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A Korean Chinese man told him to go away. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “That’s what Chinese people like to say. We have to find a way.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He had asked her to see a movie, Goddard’s Alphaville, and to have Chinese food. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Mtisha wasn’t the kind of girl that just fell down because you took her out for Chinese food. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z All foreign noses were higher than Chinese ones. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z 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 And they knew the Chinese words for “thermometer” and “library.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Only last week he learned how to make vegetarian lasagna and tried a new dish at the Chinese place. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z First, you had to look a bit Chinese, and second, you had to fight. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z It was in a Chinese bottle, red and gold. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z They believed that these numbers could be related to a Chinese code book. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Aunty Uju laughed and patted the silky hair extensions that fell to her shoulders: Chinese weave-on, the latest version, shiny and straight as straight could be; it never tangled. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And then she begins to speak in Chinese, calmly, softly. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Somebody two people down from us is eating Chinese food, and even I know that’s a no-no in a small space. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z It was while we were eating breakfast that Houston told us the story of the Chinese rabbit that I mentioned at the beginning of this book. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She has a Chinese saying for what she knows. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Yum Li’s isn’t like most Chinese restaurants, where they rush the food out right away. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I used to dismiss her criticisms as just more of her Chinese superstitions, beliefs that conveniently fit the circumstances. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she looked at me unnecessarily hard; Chinese do not have to address children directly. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I stayed home tonight and ate Chinese with my baba. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z 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 “It is written in Chinese. You cannot understand it. That is why you must listen to me. ” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The veterans learned she had been raised in the small town of Athens, Ohio, where her parents, both Chinese immigrants, were on the faculty at Ohio University. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z “Or a Chinese nun. All I’ve ever seen are white nuns,” Edwin jumped in, so I figured he hadn’t done his homework either. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Its little painted Chinese figures gathered formally in a garden around a table, with ornate plants and implausible birds, seemed fussy and oppressive. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z You can walk into any Chinese restaurant and know what you’re getting.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z “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 We invented an American-feminine speaking personality, except for that one girl who could not speak up even in Chinese school. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In much of Indonesia the merchants are Chinese immigrants. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z That’s the face Americans think is Chinese, the one they cannot understand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are something like fifty-two thousand characters in the Chinese language so you can imagine seventeen messages which were nine or ten groups long each one, what a gigantic hunt would have to go on.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z He had the complexion of a Chinese, a short forehead, and three chins. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometime in the 1980s, a gourmet Chinese chef bought the place. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z "Not all Chinese people know karate," he said. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z At the bottom of the article, a single sentence caught Mrs. Richardson’s eye: “Ms. Chow had been informed of her daughter’s whereabouts by a coworker at Lucky Palace, a Chinese restaurant on Warrensville Road.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z In that case, decided in 1886, the Court unanimously overturned convictions of two Chinese men who were operating laundries without a license. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A Chinese grandmother leads an army of thirty thousand guerrilla warriors against Japanese invaders. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Dr. H. C. Murphy had got to know Lee very well and had gone from a professional impatience with a Chinese servant to a genuine admiration for a scholar. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mariama returned carrying oil-stained brown paper bags from the Chinese restaurant, trading the smells of grease and spice into the stuffy salon. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The operator read off the numbers for Ming’s Chinese Takeout on Magnolia and said, “Please hold while I connect you.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z In the north, in the old days, the Chinese restaurants were the only ones that could be depended on. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She wants to order Chinese but her place can’t deliver tonight. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Too many Chinese meals cooked in a too small kitchen, too many once fragrant smells compressed onto a thin layer of invisible grease. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He’ll stand at the top of the lane and roar in the voice that converted the Chinese millions, Where is the house of Frank McCourt? Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Eunice jumped in and said, “For your information, he’s black and Japanese. Can’t you tell the difference between a Japanese name and a Chinese name?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z She lashed her horses and took off, dragging the drakon behind the chariot like a Chinese New Year dragon. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The memory gap between English and Chinese apparently is entirely due to this difference in length. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “I forgot to tell you. This piece of art is called Chinese Handcuffs. At least, it’s a larger variation on that idea. I call it Chinese Spidercuffs.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z This was the way Chinese offered congratulations on special occasions, and the greeting, as it was repeated, sounded like little bells tinkling. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was one of those Chinese expressions that means the better half of mixed intentions. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z This earned him the wrath of the Chinese Communist Party. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Tuesday evening was Chinese from the place on 61st Street, just like every Tuesday. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z Bill could cook rice like the Chinese— I mean rice that stood every grain on its own, but I never knew the Chinese to do what Bill could with seafood and beans. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z North Korea would have lost the Korean War and disappeared as a state without the help of the Chinese, who fought the United States and other Western forces to a stalemate. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Kill the foreign white devils!” was the 1901 Chinese war cry in the Boxer Rebellion. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They knew that many people would—wrongly—assume that William was helping his wife to break Chinese codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z When did I give her up? parents and his important lawyer friends think of this backward old Chinese woman? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember telling the Hawaiian teacher, “We Chinese can’t sing ‘land where our fathers died.’ The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If her father had not brought Third Wife, who was not Chinese, back from his travels, my mother might have thought this orange creature with the great nose was a barbarian from the West. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At school there were dating and dances, but not for good Chinese girls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Several of the Chinese characters are incomplete, rusted, or missing and must be guessed at. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But with me, when we were alone, my mother would speak in Chinese, saying things my father could not possibly imagine. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy thanked Sai Fong for the Chinese dinner, but said he would have to be going now, because it was late. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Oh, here and there was the look of a famous ancient cave or a Chinese opera. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The “Malcolm X Committee” rushed me from the Chinese Embassy dinner to where a soiree in my honor had already begun at the Press Club. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z They explode like Chinese firecrackers, one after another in a feverish succession. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mariama finished her customer’s hair, sprayed it with sheen, and, after the customer left, she said, “I’m going to get Chinese.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Bagman was yelling, and Harry heard the Chinese Fireball emit a horrible, roaring shriek, while the crowd drew its collective breath. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Everyone danced under Chinese lanterns and went for late-night dips in the oval swimming pool. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee Chong stood in back of the cigar counter and his nice brown eyes were turned inward on a calm and eternal Chinese sorrow. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z When we Chinese girls listened to the adults talk- story, we learned that we failed if we grew up to be but wives or slaves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk another few blocks and pass a photocopy shop, a shoe store, four nail salons, a Chinese restaurant, and two Mexican restaurants. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I know she brought home Chinese food because it’s my favorite. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z But every book I picked up had few sentences which didn’t contain anywhere from one to nearly all of the words that might as well have been in Chinese. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She also met the Mounties’ Chinese interpreter, Dr. Henry Leong, who knew a “staggering number” of Chinese dialects. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The historian David Arkush once compared Russian and Chinese peasant proverbs, and the differences are striking. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “When you come to America, it’s a chance to forget some of the bad Chinese habits. A person could get up one day from the gambling table and find her life over.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z While sitting outside on the deck, we are not to speak Khmer or Chinese-—only Vietnamese—and we cannot make friends or form bonds with anyone outside the family. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We only see him two or three times a year, usually at a Chinese restaurant. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z I paid an American-raised Chinese girl in Peking to show me how. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I also had some flint and steel which I had bought at a Chinese store in the city. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z But now she wants to be Chinese, it is so fashionable. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Shin asked the Chinese farmer to help them out, and he did so, but with a reluctance and a resentment that Shin was slow to notice. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z 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 Eight months earlier, the man said, Chinese police had arrested him and sent him back to North Korea, where he had served a few months in a labor camp. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Still another development in eastern and northern Australia was the harvesting of seeds of a wild millet, belonging to the same genus as the broomcorn millet that was a staple of early Chinese agriculture. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On September second, Shin Hoo's Restaurant, specializing in authentic Chinese cuisine, held its grand opening. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway, so finally I call one place, and someone says yes, there’s a Chinese man here named Ralph. She thinks she saw him go out for a walk.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z On the last day of school before spring vacation, she spotted a new student entering another classroom, an older Chinese girl with pigtails just like herself. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z His parents had moved to Omaha to get away from the Chinese government. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Sai Fong put the cricket cage in the middle of the table and then went back and forth to the stove, bringing over steaming bowls of Chinese food. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z You must understand my real circumstances, how I arrived, how I married, how I lost my Chinese face, why you are the way you are. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Harold looks at me, as if I, too, were speaking Chinese and he could not understand. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Emily had expected James to appear, but instead she heard his voice reply in Chinese. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The society was composed of a group of white-haired American missionary ladies from the First Chinese Baptist Church. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I know she has to be one of “those” Vietnamese girls everyone always gossips about, because no Khmer or Chinese girl would wear such a thing. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Other foreigners grew hair all over them, more than six Chinese together. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z It might as well have been Chinese or Arabic. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z “Although it’s a freighter, so it’s used to carrying heavy cargo. But definitely way more people than should be on that ship. I guess they’d rather risk sinking than get on a Chinese boat.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z And he heard the choppy murmur of two voices talking together in Chinese. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Now we could say we had real Chinese fortune cookies in Chinatown. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In appearance and genes those islands’ inhabitants are similar to South Chinese, and even more similar to tropical Southeast Asians, especially those of the Malay Peninsula. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The first time the Communist airplane flew over Hankow on its way to Wuchang, I ran outside and shook my fist at the pilot and shouted all the Chinese swear words I knew. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon the Laughing Man was regularly crossing the Chinese border into Paris, France, where he enjoyed flaunting his high but modest genius in the face of Marcel Dufarge, the internationally famous detective and witty consumptive. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z We shouldn’t have been so late; there was laundry work to do and Chinese school to get to by 5:00. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Its closest genetic relative is a mountain grass called teosinte that looks strikingly different—for one thing, its “ears” are smaller than the baby corn served in Chinese restaurants. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “Everything on the menu is in English and Chinese.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Even without makeup, I could never pass for true Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned to Frank, who was trying to pull his fingers out of the Chinese handcuffs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z An old Chinese birdcage, broken down into a web of arched wires, had become an eagle, its brassy skeletal wings spread as if about to take flight. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She put her old clothes back on, long Chinese gowns and skirts now with white mourning bands sewn at the bottoms. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore the same brown-checked Chinese dress until the Refugee Welcome Society gave her two hand- me-down dresses, all too large in sizes for American women. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It began with “Dear God” and ended with “Amen,” and in between she spoke in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The other three families have fragmented distributions, being spoken by “islands” of people surrounded by a “sea” of speakers of Chinese and other language families. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She whispered something in Chinese about “things not being balanced,” and I thought she meant how things looked, not how things felt. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your mom used to tell me this Chinese proverb. Eat bitter—” “Eat bitter, taste sweet,” Frank said. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Cameras followed him as he met with Chinese leaders and walked on the Great Wall. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z At the Alki Hotel, a brick wall collapsed, killing a Chinese boarder in his bed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Joe trotted inside, returning to the yard a few seconds later toting a package of Chinese firecrackers. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All Chinese food — a bowl of sweet, hot soybean milk, and two long, twisting oil sticks to dip in it; also two onion cakes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a small, dark-haired man in a white jacket, with a diamond-shaped, completely expressionless face which might have been that of a Chinese. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He had never had anything Chinese except chop suey, but he was awfully fond of that. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was this Chinese guy, quiet, good-looking, in great shape, and his name was Bruce Lee. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z So there was no doubt in her mind, whether I agreed or not: Once you are born Chinese, you cannot help but feel and think Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They agreed to meet at a Chinese restaurant. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Lee folded his hands over his stomach as though he wore Chinese sleeves and waited patiently. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As is the Chinese cook’s custom, my mother always made disparaging remarks about her own cooking. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z But then, a Chinese girl never would have been laughing, not like that. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Then, with Soviet and Chinese backing, communist North Korea invaded democratic South Korea in 1950. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z And Chinese speakers get that list of numbers — 4, 8, 5, 3, 9, 7, 6—right almost every time because, unlike English, their language allows them to fit all those seven numbers into two seconds. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z They were married ten days later in the small Chinese city of Yixing, in front of over two hundred people. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Jesse had picked the town’s only Chinese restaurant, run by white Mormons, he said. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As a prime example, consider the repeated appearance of childless elites, such as the Catholic priesthood, Buddhist monastic orders and Chinese eunuch bureaucracies. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z On them were pictures of Chinese ladies and gentlemen, dressed in colored gowns and robes, walking on little bridges over a calm blue lake. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Enthusiasts proposed a dozen groups as the ancestral stock: Phoenicians, Basques, Chinese, Scythians, Romans, Africans, “Hindoos,” ancient Greeks, ancient Assyrians, ancient Egyptians, the inhabitants of Atlantis, even straying bands of Welsh. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “There’s a Common Welsh Green over there, the smaller one — a Swedish Short- Snout, that blue-gray — and a Chinese Fireball, that’s the red.” Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z For the Chinese government, an uncontrolled surge of impoverished Korean refugees is undesirable for several reasons. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I felt myself getting mad, so to be safe, I sat down, my feet dangling over the Chinese side of the wall. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She gave me some binoculars and told me all about the Chinese girl. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not a requirement that we be experts in Chinese culture. The only requirement is that we love Mirabelle. And we do. We want to give her a better life.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Before they went to bed, Mo pulled back the curtains so they could see it—a brightly colored Chinese lantern among all the white stars. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Chinese Ambassador and Mrs. Huang Hua gave a state dinner in my honor. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Come to my church this Sunday. My husband has a friend who is looking for a good Chinese wife. He is not a citizen, but I’m sure he knows how to make one.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she dragged a third quilt, the thick, homemade Chinese kind, across me. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother saw danger in everything, even in other Chinese people. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Pilar has this book, a Chinese oracle, that predicts the future. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chinese say “a ready tongue is an evil.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Annabeth took the Chinese handcuffs and held them next to her computer. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z My father was not Chinese like my mother, but English-Irish American, who enjoyed his five slices of bacon and three eggs sunny- side up every morning. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chinese had arranged a small conference room for the Americans to work in. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t see why they can’t learn it alongside her. Wouldn’t that bond them all closer, learning about Chinese culture together?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They had flashlights and wore vests that had Chinese lettering printed across the back. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z He wanted Chinese lanterns strung from boats and bridges alike. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The boiler would rest, and no ghost would know there were Chinese asleep in their laundry. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Perhaps they fooled the Ghost Teachers and Ghost Coaches, who couldn’t tell smart Chinese from dumb Chinese. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I saw these things with my Chinese eyes, the part of me I got from my mother. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I left the Bund and the concessions and walked into the Chinese world. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “First things first. I need to know how you feel about space travel and Chinese food.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Being Chinese, he had thought the safest place to work would be in the Chinese restaurants scattered like toys in around the legs of the el on 125th Street. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “A rotten egg, my brother called me, to my face. ‘Chinese people don’t do such things,’ he said.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I decided that just like Cecile was crazy, the Chinese lady was mean. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z But then out would pop another English expression, one for which there was no Chinese equivalent—Gee whiz! In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Later he realized this to be a very daring thing to ask, that he never would have asked a Chinese girl why she was laughing. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He thought he should write them in Chinese, then translate them, but when he sat down, he perversely found that he wanted to compose in English. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Speaking in Chinese, the journalist told police that he and his friend had business inside. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Billy stopped skating, found himself at a lectern in a Chinese restaurant in Ilium, New York, on an early afternoon in the autumn of 1957. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Dalian is impressive not just for a Chinese city. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Prophecies made him think of fortune cookies, which weren’t even Chinese—not really— but the bullies at school teased him about stupid stuff like that: Confucius say... all that garbage. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Do you think,” he asked Mrs. Richardson as they cleared the table, “that Mark and Linda really know how to raise a Chinese child?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Cut short by Cortes, Mexica philosophy did not have the chance to reach as far as Greek or Chinese philosophy. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He remembered a night weeks ago; looking through her bag for her wallet, to pay the Chinese food delivery man, he’d pulled out her diaphragm case. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When the police came around asking questions, my father said, “No read Japanese. Japanese words. Me Chinese.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of cheaply stringing dragonflies by the tail, we could fly expensive kites, the sky splendid in Chinese colors, distracting ghost eyes while the new people sneak in. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And I concluded that was why my mother had to wear foreign-style clothes, in the manner of newly rich Chinese people who liked to display their wealth on the outside. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I shrugged my shoulders and said, “Some boy in my class said Chinese people do Chinese torture.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chinese people do many things,” she said simply. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Similarly, when Sapiens reached East Asia, they interbred with the local Erectus, so the Chinese and Koreans are a mixture of Sapiens and Erectus. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z They were angry with the Chinese crews, and on the third day, my father said that mutiny charges had been placed against them. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Before they left for the mobile home, they picked up some Chinese food for dinner. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z It gave off a sickly, oily smell, as of Chinese rice-spirit. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z The invention of the double-outrigger sailing canoe may have been the technological breakthrough that triggered the Austronesian expansion from the Chinese mainland. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z My stomach drops as I remember the Duchess's comment about the lack of Chinese in Summerland. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The front of the house had a Chinese stone gate, rounded at the top, with big black lacquer doors and a threshold you had to step over. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z No wonder the Chinese are the way they are. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z But I couldn’t see how Mrs. would know to call the phone booth at Mean Lady Ming’s Chinese takeout and tell the first person who answered to run and get Cecile. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z When it was lit and a thread of smoke was curling up from the bowl, he used the pipe to emphasize what he said, drawing little designs, like Chinese writing, in the air. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z And they’re off again, hustling through rooms of Chinese art and French sculptures. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z 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 Everyone said so; she even knew that while her American age I25 was three-and-a-half, her Chinese age was a year more. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z At home, she said, “Wise guy, he not go against wind. In Chinese we say, Come from South, blow with wind—poom!— North will follow. Strongest wind cannot be seen.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s been going around with New York City girls in ballet flats, taking them to Chinese food and out to see bands. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z The rug was old and deep and Chinese, an apple-green dragon on saffron. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Monday dragged me into Mr. Chang’s Carryout—the Chinese food spot a few blocks away from home, our favorite Friday after-school snack. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Two Chinese food cartons, one with bits of fried rice stuck to the sides, a white plastic fork sprouting from the top, and the other with some sort of sauce caked around the rim. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He and the Chinese gentleman dug out two collapsible chairs from his attic and came uptown every day at eight and four-thirty to hear Chester’s new programs. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A small weekend crowd of Chinese people and tourists would gather as I played and defeated my opponents one by one. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She did this because she had noticed a certain formality in Chinese communications. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I asked her to speak the Chinese words aloud together so that I could hear if the sound made sense to me.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z There were journals in English, French, German, Russian, Italian, and even one collection in Chinese. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Her teacher, Jake Wexler, visited her in the kitchen before he sat down to his daily lunch in the Chinese restaurant. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps, she prayed, the gods only spoke Chinese, never studied English, would not recognize temptation in another language. “...death, that this will be our secret no matter what.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z What is Chinese tradition and what is the movies ? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I may have ruined my life, Armpit thought, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Davis cracked Italian, Japanese, Chinese, and Russian ciphers during World War II. Later, she served in the NSA, working on Russian intercepts. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z At the moment that my friends entered the store, Ping Wah was reading a Chinese newspaper. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One Saturday night, Apá let me order Chinese food, which was gloriously greasy. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I read in an anthropology book that Chinese say, “Girls are necessary too”; I have never heard the Chinese I know make this concession. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She loved Chinese food and cheeseburgers and going for ice cream with friends. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z First he went out and picked up Chinese takeout—General Tso’s chicken and shrimp fried rice for everyone. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z On July 4, in the year 1054, Chinese astonomers recorded what they called a “guest star” in the constellation of Taurus, the Bull. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 Every Saturday, without fail, Dad and I went to Ming Palace, a Chinese restaurant wedged between Planet Fitness and the Price Chopper supermarket out on Route 24. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “They’re worthless to your son. Tribal schools don’t use these books, for they are written in French, German, Arabic, Hindu and Chinese, languages which I, too, can’t read.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z "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 My father, who spoke only a few canned Chinese expressions, insisted my mother learn English. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z At the top of the sheet was a story in Spanish about a young Chinese boy, Yu Li. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z ‘Body language’ is a form of communication, like speaking English or French or Chinese, but it has no words, only gestures. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I think my mother’s English was the worst, but she always thought her Chinese was the best. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z You can’t entrust your voice to the Chinese, either; they want to capture your voice for their own use. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Wait... we’re Chinese. Why would Roman gods want to date Chinese Canadians?” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z As for Chinese writing, first attested around 1300 B.C. but with possible earlier precursors, it too has unique local signs and some unique principles, and most scholars assume that it evolved independently. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z In English, he said, “You play hard, you Chinese girls.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z So we were shy at first, your father and I, neither of us able to speak to each other in our Chinese dialects. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It is the way Chinese sounds, chingchong ugly, to American ears, not beautiful like Japanese sayonara words with the consonants and vowels as regular as Italian. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The vicious, arrogant white man put up the famous signs, “Chinese and dogs not allowed.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z She thinks I am Chinese or Japanese because I always order in English or by number or by pointing to what I want on another table. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z She leaned over the counter, which was lined with dozens of little statues—waving Chinese cats, meditating Buddhas, Saint Francis bobble heads, and novelty dippy drinking birds with top hats. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z And then she started to move the larger pieces: the sofa, chairs, end tables, a Chinese scroll of goldfish. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Those with the most “currency” can cross from the food section to the book section, where old Khmer, Chinese, French, or English dictionaries and novels can be bought with several kilograms of rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chinese reached to the side of his neck and he smiled. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “I like this one,” I said, pointing at a Chinese crested. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “We don’t allow any Chinese folks in town, the preacher’s made that clear.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z My brain was feeling fuzzy a little bit, like when I tried to figure out Wei’s tip for Chinese food. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z A market where his grandmother buys oysters for Chinese New Year. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z According to the scraps of labels with Chinese and American addresses, stamps, and postmarks, the family airmailed the can from Hong Kong in 1950. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I know I’m American because I order too much when I eat Chinese. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Emily had expected James to appear, but instead she heard his voice reply in Chinese. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Eggs are a vivid crimson speckled with gold and the shells are much prized for use in Chinese wizardry. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The passenger he’d just picked up, an elderly Chinese man, looked down in surprise as well. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Thirty thousand years ago, a Chinese forager might leave camp with her companions at, say, eight in the morning. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z That sounded about as much fun as Chinese water torture or getting his teeth extracted. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He was afraid that if he moved, he would be buried under an avalanche of Chinese novelties. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z These hallmarks of war in Yayoi Japan corroborate the earliest accounts of Japan in Chinese chronicles, which describe the land of Wa and its hundred little political units fighting with one another. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They were light; they were molten, changing gold—Chinese lion dancers, African lion dancers in midstep. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It was known among the neighbors in the brush huts, among the pearl fishermen; it was known among the Chinese grocery-store owners; it was known in the church, for the altar boys whispered about it. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z She went to the Chinese shopkeeper in a neighboring town. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Mario had never had an old Chinese gentleman bow to him before and he didn’t quite know what to do. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The nearly empty refrigerator held the same packets of Chinese takeout sauce, even the same Katz Diet Coke can, which I’d bought in Idaho and they’d carefully transported across the Great Plains. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He would pretend he was in a Chinese play to show me what he meant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought he looked like a Chinese emperor. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t speak Chinese. I come from Chattanooga.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z "Those machines can make Chinese money if you want them to," my grandmother said. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z The oldest preserved Chinese writing of the late Shang Dynasty consists of religious divination about dynastic affairs, incised into so-called oracle bones. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Was it out of politeness that this writer left off strokes the way a Chinese has to write her own name small and crooked? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z And immediately beyond Korea's borders, Chinese Communists led by Mao Zedong seized control of the mainland in 1949, following a four-year-long civil war with the nationalist forces of Chiang Kai-shek. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z How she wished she could wrap her body up the way she'd heard Chinese girls had their feet bound so they wouldn't grow big. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z However, I realized that many readers would also wonder “Why, among Eurasians, was it Europeans rather than Chinese or some other group that expanded?” Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z I thought about the Chinese lady in Iowa who could take her teeth out, about driving to Georgia, about a boy at school who was kind of cute. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z This woman was the giver of American names, a powerful namer, though it was American names; my parents gave the Chinese names. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Chinese without sons stole the boy babies of Japanese settlers who left them bundled up at the ends of the potato rows. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Chinese executed women who disguised themselves as soldiers or students, no matter how bravely they fought or how high they scored on the examinations. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. The sheriff gave it to me as a gift. Said he got this from a Chinese man that used to live here.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Small Chinese kid putting a guy twice his size on the ground, one shot. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Shin knew enough Chinese by then to tell the manager of the cattle ranch why he was leaving. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In a glass case right in front of him was a row of Chinese goddesses, carved in ivory. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes I hated the ghosts for not letting us talk; sometimes I hated the secrecy of the Chinese. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Her son has on one of those surgical masks that Chinese people wear so they don’t catch diseases on trains and stuff. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The Chinese delegation was suffering from rocket lag and wouldn’t show up for another hour. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. I was telling my brother how I could have taken Chinese or German but that I decided to stick with Spanish, and he couldn’t believe it.” Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The group’s destination was the Silver Moon Chinese restaurant. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Only on the remote Andaman Islands do languages unrelated to the South Chinese language families persist—the last linguistic survivors of what must have been hundreds of now extinct aboriginal Southeast Asian languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Of course, English frequencies were no help in breaking Lim’s messages, which were thought to be in Chinese. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z On the other hand, Arkush writes, Chinese proverbs are striking in their belief that “hard work, shrewd planning and self-reliance or cooperation with a small group will in time bring recompense.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I stared at the closed Chinese take-out boxes sitting in the center of the table. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Crowds of Chinese were milling around but they didn’t look like organized riot- makers, just ordinary Chinese who had come out of curiosity to laugh at the foreigners scuttling away. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “The way she write it in Chinese, it mean ‘Long- Cherished Wish.’ The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z So when they came home with Chinese food, June was still here. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z For the next ten months, Shin stayed where the pig farmer had left him, tending cattle in mountain pastures and sleeping on a ranch-house floor with two surly Chinese cowhands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “I’ll tell you how far it got with me though. Since I’ve come here I find myself thinking of Chinese fairy tales my father told me. We Chinese have a well- developed demonology.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The Chinese immigrants building the railroads connecting east to west. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got to the elementary school’s all-purpose room to wait for the first morning bell, Julie took a big, exaggerated sniff from across the room and asked, “Did somebody bring in Chinese food?” Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Also, writing in Chinese had become a chore. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Over a traditional ten-course Chinese dinner at a local hotel, the mayor told me how far Dalian has come and just where he intends to take it. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z When I was a little girl I had three best friends who happened to be Chinese, African American, and Caucasian. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I talked to her in English, she answered back in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I push the deformed into my dreams, which are in Chinese, the language of impossible stories. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When I was in grade nine, three Chinese kids transferred to Sandringham: Bolo, Bruce Lee, and John. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I think the carvings mean something, because shapes and details, which I never seem to notice until after they’re pointed out to me, always mean something to Chinese people. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Rule 1: All empty food containers, like Chinese food, or even empty McDonald’s bags, have to be put either in the microwave or in the refrigerator until we take the trash out in the morning. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Helen’s Chinese astrological sign was a cow; Ralph’s, a pig; Theresa’s, a dog. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Also, there was a Chinese laundry on Eighth Avenue that sold used comics for a nickel, and I bought my share, sneaking them into the house rolled into my sock under a pants leg. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Have you an appointment?” she asked in poor Chinese; she spoke less like a Chinese than Brave Orchid’s children. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you know about Chinese business?” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When we spoke over a Chinese dinner in Seoul in 2009, An wore a dark blue suit, a white shirt, a striped tie, and half-frame glasses. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z How can Chinese keep any traditions at all? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Then his mind immediately shifted to what awaited: his favorite Chinese meal of Egg Drop Soup, Chicken Chop Suey, pistachio ice cream, and inevitably, a large glass of milk. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z They had all brought their mothers-in-law and children, and even their village friends who were not lucky enough to have overseas Chinese relatives to show off. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Whenever he could he hid his hands in his sleeves as though he were afraid for them, as most Chinese did in that day. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “A missing leg is a bad sign on Chinese New Year.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The capacity of the Chinese borderlands to absorb North Koreans is significant—and significantly underappreciated outside of Northeast Asia. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “The teachers say they are brilliant. They can speak Chinese and English. They’ll be able to talk to you.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t tell me: you’re having Chinese,” he says in a dry voice. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z According to Temple, the Chinese invented the mold- board plow by the third century b.c. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He thought about Grandmother’s silly gold statues of Chinese immortals, her superstitions about putting furniture in certain places and avoiding unlucky numbers. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It is also surprising that Indonesians and Filipinos are so similar to tropical Southeast Asians and South Chinese in other physical features besides light skins and in their genes. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On a rather small scale at first, he began to free-lance around the Chinese countryside, robbing, highjacking, murdering when absolutely necessary. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z One of the Chinese parishioners had donned a Santa Claus costume and a stiff paper beard with cotton balls glued to it. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z A lovely, laughing big-legged girl who worked as a clerk in a Chinese department store. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z She saw my surprise and quickly added, “Chinese! Of course, he must be Chinese. ‘Citizen’ does not mean Caucasian. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon they had defeated the Chinese and taken over many other islands in the Pacific Ocean. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z He separated all the characters and ran comparisons with English, Chinese, Greek, Arabic, and with Cyrillic texts, even with Ogham. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She didn’t feel any less confused when he blushed and pulled his Chinese handcuffs out of his pocket. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Chinese cooking. I have a cousin in Chinatown, and he told me how. My cousin is in the firecracker and fan-tan business.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “These carts are like Chinese puzzles. I suspect that I will continually be pulling at the wrong opening.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She dug into her pocket and offered Nailer a handful of bright linen Red Chinese cash. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “At first I thought it was because I was raised with all this Chinese humility,” Rose said. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z When they finally got control of themselves, they asked if I could speak Chinese and I said yes, I certainly could. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z But Abe said that he was a special breed from Asia, trained by the Chinese army, and that his jaw was strong enough to bite through metal. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z “The Parthians put the captured legionnaires to work, since they were pretty good fighters. Except then Parthia got invaded again from the other direction—” “By the Chinese,” Frank guessed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Shin had stayed away from the Chinese police. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z That’s the way Chinese mothers show they love their children, not through hugs and kisses but with stern offerings of steamed dumplings, duck’s gizzards, and crab. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In languages as diverse as Welsh, Arabic, Chinese, English and Hebrew, there is a reproducible correlation between the time required to pronounce numbers in a given language and the memory span of its speakers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Chinese have that, too—ancestor worship, sweeping the graves in the springtime.” The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z In the Chinese culture, young children never call their elder siblings by name as it is considered improper and disrespectful. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I guess I used it more than I knew. Yes, the story. I told you, Mr. Hamilton, that I was growing more Chinese. Do you ever grow more Irish?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In most areas, the Chinese bank of the river offers decent cover; it is thick with trees. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z And then he added in his thick, flat Chinese, “Like the angel of light.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And the Chinese can’t hear Americans at all; the language is too soft and western music unhearable. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Other musical traditions — traditional Chinese music for example — have divided the octave differently and so they use different scales. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z To Chinese people, fourteen carats isn’t real gold. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Estha gave her a Chinese Bangle, twisting the skin on her wrist different ways with each of his hands. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother had a superstition, in fact, that children were predisposed to certain dangers on certain days, all depending on their Chinese birthdate. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Samuel, you know that Chinese with his slanty eyes and his outlandish talk and that braid?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “No. I tried it. To the so-called whites I was still a Chinese, but an untrustworthy one; and at the same time my Chinese friends steered clear of me. I had to give it up.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They’d probably try to get the Romans to do what they did, just as they were trying to teach the Chinese to do what Americans did. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1931, Japan tested the waters, invading the Chinese province of Manchuria and setting up a fiercely oppressive puppet state. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z A Korean Chinese man refused to let him in the house. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z However, regular dog eating has been a last resort of meat-deprived human societies: the Aztecs had no other domestic mammal, and the Polynesians and ancient Chinese had only pigs and dogs. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z When I was a child on the ranch near Salinas, California, we had a Chinese cook who regularly made a modest good thing of it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiny little one-syllable explosions went off about the room like a string of Chinese firecrackers. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Somebody tapped me on my shoulder, and when I turned around, the girl right in back of me said, “Are you Chinese or Japanese?” Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z We had colored kids and Indian kids, and even a handful of Chinese kids, too. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z I take her to a movie, checking it first for violence, sex and death, and to a Chinese restaurant. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Alphabets of ultimately eastern Mediterranean origin spread throughout all complex societies of Eurasia, from England to Indonesia, except for areas of East Asia where derivatives of the Chinese writing system took hold. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The different representatives had all spoken their own languages—French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was about this couple and they had this landlord who lived upstairs who was supposed to be Chinese or something. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z I thought about that, considered that dinosaurs, real dinosaurs, had walked near where I now sat in a Chinese restaurant drinking a Shirley Temple, tens of millions of years later. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She agreed to stop at a store selling Chinese souvenirs because he wanted to buy something for Ginny. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I talked at home and to one or two of the Chinese kids in class. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I think about what my mother said, about activating my genes and becoming Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z What’s taken for granted in English, though, is spelled out in Chinese; there’s even a verb construction for this purpose. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He was afraid of escalating tensions with the Soviet and Chinese Communists by increased bombing. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Each has a little wire handle and red Chinese temples printed on the sides. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Mario and Chester stole a glance at each other, but neither one of them understood Chinese. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll lay aside my Oriental manner. I’m getting old and cantankerous. I am growing impatient. Haven’t you heard of all Chinese servants that when they get old they remain loyal but they turn mean?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On Culture Day, Susan had stood before the class and wrote her Chinese name on the board and spoke of folding paper into birds and dragons dancing down the street. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z Uncle Jet walked to them and saw the Chinese food they had brought back for a late lunch. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z These included Chinese and Scottish, as well as some Eastern European ethnic folk music. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z She was sitting in a pile of Chinese scrolls, reading seven or eight at once. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Losing again, this time the Chinese were driven from Peking’s choicest areas. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z One week in seventh grade, we tried to convince people we were sisters, even though Anna’s half Chinese, Morgan’s Jewish, and I’m basically the size of both of them combined. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z 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 She was proudly modest like a proper Chinese child. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I not know was New York. In Chinese, ny mean ‘you.’ Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z We were all blind with the newness of this experience: a Chinese family trying to act like a typical American family at the beach. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Crates from Canton, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan have that smell too, only stronger because they are more recently come from the Chinese. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He found that Chinese people would usually give him something. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Her name was going to end up in the papers again, linked to Chinese codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Occasionally we were taken to Chinese restaurants or Italian pizza parlors. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “I seem to get more Chinese as I get older.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z On the deck where he’d been standing, a green iguana crouched next to an empty set of Chinese handcuffs. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Hugh returned from his trip, and days later I still sounded like a Red Chinese asking questions about the democratic hinterlands. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Not all of the children who were silent at American school found voice at Chinese school. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I go to a Chinese- themed bar covered in graffiti. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z Daughters-in-law lived with their husbands’ parents, not their own; a synonym for marriage in Chinese is “taking a daughter-in-law.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z They were rich and poor, Shanghainese, Cantonese, northerners, and not just Chinese, but foreigners and missionaries of every religion. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z They see daughters who grow impatient when their mothers talk in Chinese, who think they are stupid when they explain things in fractured English. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Law enforcement arrested more than a hundred people for operating laundries without licenses, and every one of the arrestees was Chinese. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z She finished her meal as a group of Chinese tourists shuffled past the courtyard. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z And the cleft lip, just left of midline, where the Chinese doll maker’s instrument may have slipped, or perhaps he had simply grown tired and careless. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Then she translated in Chinese: “You shouldn’t fight and do your laundry at the same time. If you win, your clothes will get dirty.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t know the Chinese words for it.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z On Sasha’s first full day in the hospital, a stranger dropped off a bouquet of silk flowers—three white roses and four stalks of orange Chinese lanterns. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She tried to grow edelweiss and Chinese guava. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z No amount of takeout Chinese food or politeness ought to make me forget exactly who and what I am dealing with. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z 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 Until finally, irked, she says what his tutor always says, “You listen but don’t hear!” — distinguishing, the way the Chinese will, between effort and result. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Tied up along its shores was every conceivable kind of watercraft— Chinese junks, tugboats, rickety houseboats, old schooners, and barges heaped with jumbles of industrial cargo. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Do you have any books that feature Chinese characters?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She followed my Chinese ways only until she learned how to walk out the door by herself and go to school. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z It was true that she still inquired of people if they’d eaten yet, odd as it sounded; Ralph invented his grammar on the fly; even Theresa struggled to put her Chinese thoughts into English. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Massive Chinese agricultural, scientific, and industrial efforts are described in a book that Life magazine recently published. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z This was serendipity itself; with the fall of the Nationalists, other Chinese students had become as illegitimate as he. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Am I in your way?” asked Theresa in Chinese. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I live now where there are Chinese and Japanese, but no emigrants from my own village looking at me as if I had failed them. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if any name in Chinese is not something special. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I wanted my children to have the best combination: American circumstances and Chinese character. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My neighbor in The Lords says it’s the Chinese. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We head to a Chinese restaurant in town. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z After American school, we picked up our cigar boxes, in which we had arranged books, brushes, and an inkbox neatly, and went to Chinese school, from 5:00 to 7:30 P.M. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 Here’s this skinny Chinese boy in jeans stepping into the ocean. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z When it was over, the old Chinese gentleman blew his nose on a silk handkerchief he took out of his sleeve. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I found him reading a Chinese newspaper, his eyes going up and down with the characters. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “A Chinese proverb. It means I’m going to show you a picture of Emmett Till. I was the same age as you when I saw it.” Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z Afterward, we ordered some Chinese food and spent the night, Aunt Tracy in the guest room, Carl on the couch, and me on a funky futon thing his grandfather had. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Ethan was the first out the door, but half my Modern Chinese History class lingered in the classroom behind me. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z She was in many ways Americanized, but in this respect she was Chinese still — when family marched, she fell in step. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Her dangling earring reflected the rays of the streetlight like tinkling glass Chinese ornaments. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The salon was in the middle, between a Chinese restaurant called Happy Joy and a convenience store that sold lottery tickets. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z 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 Many have almond-shaped eyes, thin noses, and light skin, which suggests they might also be of Chinese descent. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought it was a trick question; I was seven according to the American formula and eight by the Chinese calendar. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Only thing them Chinese folks in that movie et was whales and seals. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z And some of them bore jottings, also in Chinese, in their margins. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “How do you know what is Chinese, what is not Chinese?” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z That, in turn, could arouse nationalist sentiments among ethnic Koreans in the Chinese borderlands. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Then my ears went funny, and I noticed a big, smudgy-eyed Chinese woman staring idiotically into my face. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z I felt kind of bad for popping off like that, but at the same time, man, it’s not like I asked people to come over and tell me how messed-up some Chinese kid is. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z In such cases he launched into hissing Chinese, brandished skillets, and then turned his back and walked away. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mr. Hu,” I said, “if I write letters to Lin Nai-Nai in English, will you read them to her in Chinese?” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “My dad’s Chinese,” she explained, filling two glasses full of water from the refrigerator door. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z These clothes were too fancy for real Chinese people, I thought, and too strange for American parties. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Chinese leftovers were not on the menu for tonight’s dinner. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “As gingerly munched her Chinese Chicken Salad, she spoke of love.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll believe it when I see them ten thousand rockets arrive with the one hundred thousand Mexicans and Chinese on them.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z A first-class planned escape, complete with a forged Chinese passport and an air ticket from Beijing to Seoul, sold for ten thousand dollars or more. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z In Chinese Geak means “jade,” the most precious and loved of all gems to Asians. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For a while they tried a Chinese kitchen-god figurine from Schmitt’s Variety Store, but he was all wrong—much too nice and pleasant looking. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “It has come to our attention ....” And what about that strange man hanging around his Chinese friends lately? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked cousins and other Chinese children whether their mothers had cut their tongues loose, they said, “What?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z An elderly Chinese woman, dwarfed by the floral armchair she sat in, was fixated on the screen. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Taiwan’s aborigines had the island largely to themselves until mainland Chinese began settling in large numbers within the last thousand years. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “You know, one of these days I’m going to study Chinese,” said Cammy. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Four-year-old Chinese children can count, on average, to forty. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Anyone can tell this is a Chinese name and I’m curious to know what the Chinese talk about. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I miss his hugs and how he used to make me laugh at old Chinese stories. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It has ancient Chinese sailing ships called junks, hundreds clustered together with thousands of people living in them. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Why didn’t Chinese ships proceed around Africa’s southern cape westward and colonize Europe, before Vasco da Gama’s own three puny ships rounded the Cape of Good Hope eastward and launched Europe’s colonization of East Asia? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I know plenty of Chinese people. They have names like Wei Chin. Or Lee something. Not Yo-Yo Ma.” If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t even figure out a stupid pair of Chinese handcuffs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z No wonder some twenty-eight hundred Japanese companies have set up operations here or teamed up with Chinese partners. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Even though I’m not Chinese, I can relate to the feelings the four daughters had toward their mothers. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z In the Yang house, shoe removal is part Chinese tradition, part Mrs. Yang likes people to be comfy. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “I like to study. I play all games. I read books. I hate the piano. My father’s an engineer. My mother’s a landlady. I have eight cousins, and we all are Chinese.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Tourists never went to Hong Sing’s, since the menu was printed only in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I wonder what these people do for a living because this place belongs in a magazine—Chinese lanterns, what appears to be real artwork, and intricately designed rugs. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This one, she assured Shirley, had successfully cured thousands of Chinese of baldness. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z She learned these things, but I couldn’t teach her about Chinese character. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I see one that looks Chinese,” she thought, “I’ll go over and give him some advice.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s always cooking all kinds of foods, not just Korean food but Spanish, Chinese, Italian, Vietnamese, and even Russian. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z While he changes out of his office clothes and into his Dude clothes, I crank the oven and put our Chinese food in to warm it a bit. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z At some point, someone told Elizebeth to stop talking about Chinese codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The Chinese I know hide their names; sojourners take new names when their lives change and guard their real names with silence. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His hair—blue-black, thick and straight—did not have the hard sheen of the hair of a Chinese or Japanese but had the soft look of fabric. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 When Bailey was six and I a year younger, we used to rattle off the times tables with the speed I was later to see Chinese children in San Francisco employ on their abacuses. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I was usually the only Korean in a room of young Jews and Chinese and Hispanics. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The result was a face that looked like the wings of a butterfly and bore an expression vaguely old and Chinese. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Jamaica has a very large Chinese population that since the nineteenth century has dominated the commercial life of the island. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The more Chinese came, the more they began to want better wages and conditions. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z According to an ancient Chinese legend, one day in the year 2640 B.C., Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The case that nearly killed Elizebeth started in a small Chinese herb shop in Vancouver, Canada. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The eggplant goes in the trash and we order Chinese. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Familiar later Chinese crops include soybeans, hemp, citrus fruit, tea, apricots, peaches, and pears. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z For us she found new words so bad we couldn’t translate them, although our Chinese was as good as our English. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was nearly Chinese New Year, and no one even mentioned it. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “How dare you come poking into my tent and commanding my two friends to leave? How dare you tell the Chinese to leave?” Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z She might as well have been speaking Chinese. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z She said this man owned many carpet factories and lived in a mansion located in the British Concession of Tientsin, the best section of the city where Chinese people could live. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z How can I describe to them in my broken Chinese about our mother’s life? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing but walk and say a few words in Chinese. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z Another resulted in a replacement, throughout almost the whole of tropical Southeast Asia, of indigenous hunter-gatherers by farmers of ultimately South Chinese origin. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z They speak in their special language, half in broken English, half in their own Chinese dialect. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In addition to the American packages, presents were being delivered to my parents from Chinese friends. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And Branwell never told them that We may not, but people in Chinese restaurants do. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped and bought some kind of steamed bun, still piping hot, from a Chinese vendor who didn’t speak English. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z In the Chinese culture it is not proper for girls to wear this color because it attracts too much attention. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z There are other symbols as well: Norse runes, Chinese characters. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The letters all came from the English alphabet, but the Mounties suspected the plaintext was in Chinese, probably in Cantonese dialect. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “Well, I’ve been trying to translate some old Chinese poetry into English. I’m not sure it can be done. Will you take a look?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When my second grade class did a play, the whole class went to the auditorium except the Chinese girls. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chinese ambassador to the United States attended, along with prominent government officials and civil rights leaders. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z And there was nothing of the Chinese about him. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z “Do you have a Chinese saint who did the same things as St. George?” the demoness asked with obvious satisfaction. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Her indignation came to her in English, even as she recalled a Chinese saying, Lao xu cbeng nu — constant shame becomes anger. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Nineteenth- century writers attributed the mound complexes to, among others, the Chinese, the Welsh, the Phoenicians, the lost nation of Atlantis, and various biblical personages. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They did not follow the sounds of earth-sea-sky and the Chinese language. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He carried Chinese court dress with him in his canoe in case he should meet Chinese agents coming from the East. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z She wrote the characters out on the back of an envelope, forgetting that I cannot read Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He caressed her with the tender, fatherly touch he sometimes used with animals, until the woman finally relaxed and allowed him to roll up the sleeves of her old Chinese robe, revealing her skeletal arms. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was explained in a little Chinese book called The Twenty-Six Malignant Gates. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He watches a lot of Chinese martial arts movies and annoys us with his imitations of the movies’ monkey style. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z For dinner we went either to a Chinese place or the Indian one in the next town, and sometimes he drove to the city so we could eat Korean. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z From then on, she hardly spoke, not even in Chinese to her mother. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “How about other books, Mrs. McCullough? Any other books with Chinese characters?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was the soil, so fresh, so robust, so much better quality than Chinese soil; Chinese soil having been prevailed upon for too many thousands of years. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Frank morphed back into a burly, grumpy Chinese Canadian dude. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “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 Women grumbled in Chinese as they picked through vegetables and melons that he’d never seen before. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “You can tell that when she looks down at that baby in her arms, she doesn’t see a Chinese baby. All she sees is a baby, plain and simple.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Poppy and Mom—whom everyone had started calling Soo-Sun, in a way that made her common American name sound almost Chinese—began distributing presents to everybody. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z 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 Wind nymphs zipped around the room, delivering orders of pizza, burgers, steaks, salads, Chinese food, and burritos, all flying at terminal velocity. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Thankfully, it didn’t take too long to get to the Chinese restaurant. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z North Korean defectors arriving in Seoul said that Chinese-made transistor radios had allowed them to listen to Chinese and South Korean stations, as well as to Radio Free Asia and Voice of America. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “You call them Chinese. Even in America you call them Chinese.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He lit his white clay pipe and the old Chinese gentleman lit one too. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A paste of Chinese herbs concocted by Mother had magically coaxed sore gums to adopt the twenty-eight intruders fashioned by the dentist. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “She’s got no cash, though. And no one talks without Red Chinese in their hands.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z An essential Chinese idea — he had to think of a way. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In the parlor, Frank sat on a velvet sofa, surrounded by vintage family photos, porcelain vases that had been too large for his wagon, and red Chinese calligraphy banners. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Shin moved on to a nearby brick house, where he asked another Korean Chinese man for help. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Well fan my brow,” cried Finny, giving us his stunned look of total appalled horrified amazement, “who would have thought that! Chinese. The Yellow Peril, right here at Devon.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Tom Yew got on her and sort of jiggled there and she gasped like a Chinese burn and wrapped her legs round him, froggily. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He worked in the Y.M.C.A. so he could help those Chinese who needed help in whatever way they needed it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought to myself, Why did they choose only the worst Chinese parts for the inside? The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He could see, across several fields and through a few young Chinese elms to Joe’s house, the jumble of outbuildings and rusted machinery and the ten-foot-high piles of pinon. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Normal Chinese women’s voices are strong and bossy. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a red-faced Chinese man, wobbling down the sidewalk as if he were lost. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Speakers of Chinese languages were especially vigorous in replacing and linguistically converting other ethnic groups, whom Chinese speakers looked down upon as primitive and inferior. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z On the walls, reproduction Chinese paintings, mostly landscapes. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z So in the afternoon I either go home and grab a bite or go out for Chinese. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z When he thought of Chinese beauty the iron predatory faces of the Manchus came to his mind, arrogant and unyielding faces of a people who had authority by unquestioned inheritance. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z When I was small, much younger than I am now, Pa told me that in a certain Chinese dialect my name, Loung, translates into “dragon.” First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “He just said, ‘I will trample you to death, silly Chinese Canadian baby man.’” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z “Oh, well,” said the Chinese, “maybe I didn’t want it much anyway.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z From this height the people didn’t look like poor, overworked Chinese; they seemed to be toy people going happily about their business. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought Black Panthers would only look out for black people, but there were the two Mexicans, a little white boy, and a boy who looked both black and Chinese. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z After rounding the bend, she ducked into the Chinese import shop. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “The ships will be moving again soon,” my father said confidently, and he was right I think it was February 21 that some of die Chinese sailors agreed to sail to Lake Maracaibo. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z If we overseas Chinese would just send money to the Communist bank, our relatives said, they might get a percentage of it for themselves. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There is a Chinese word for the female I—which is “slave.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My father asks, “Why is it I can hear Chinese from blocks away? Is it that I understand the language? Or is it they talk loud?” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “How do you mean? Father said he was going to start a bookstore. That’s funny. A Chinese bookstore.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z By then, the Chinese had observed that a particular mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and saltpeter, which became known as gunpowder, was especially explosive. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z But to Chinese ways of thinking, the guest bedroom is the best bedroom, where she and her husband sleep. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Remember, my daughter, you may be the only Chinese these Americans will ever meet. Do your best. Be extra good. Upon your shoulders rests the reputation of all Chinese.” In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z She was standing at the end of my driveway, wearing a flowy dress, a sweatshirt, and the red Chinese shoes. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z But even more dazzling to Joseph were the dozens of small blue-and-white Chinese vases and porcelain figures, each one sitting on its own little gold shelf, that covered the wall above the fireplace. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The Chinese kids would hang out next to the prefab buildings. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z If the Americans had one, the Soviets had to have one, and then the British, the French, the Chinese, the Indians, the Pakistanis ... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, instead of taking pictures of all the Chinese people and the temples and dragons, they pointed their cameras at us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it’s even becoming fashionable for American-born Chinese to use their Chinese names. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I know I could ask Auntie Lindo, Auntie An-mei, or other Chinese friends, but I also know they would tell me a meaning that is different from what my mother intended. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z My sense is that a large majority of social scientists still favors proximate explanations for the different courses of European and Chinese history. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z After the Chinese food stop, Wes decided it was time to head home. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In Serena’s parlor, with the dried flowers, on the Chinese carpet, his thin body. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Latent mutual fear between the economically dominant Chinese and politically dominant Javans erupted in 1966 in a bloody revolution, when Javans slaughtered hundreds of thousands of Chinese. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z She sat proudly on the bench, telling my admirers with proper Chinese humility, “Is luck.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Well, I—I—only wanted to see if the Chinese, if the Chinese, ah, had any saints. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “What do those five Chinese brothers in the book look like?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z It was ideal apple-eating weather; the whitest sunlight descended from the purest sky, and an easterly wind rustled, without ripping loose, the last of the leaves on the Chinese elms. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z She says that some day my Chinese side will also make me tall. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In February we had some of our furniture and all of our Chinese things crated for shipment. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z If you speak and write in English, or Spanish, or Chinese, or any other language, then only a certain percentage of human beings will get your meaning. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z The old Chinese gentleman stood up and bowed. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z He felt formal and polite from all the bowing, and he was glad that his cricket had been able to make the two Chinese gentlemen so happy. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Perhaps they couldn’t shorten that far gaze that lasts only a few years after a Chinese emigrates. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There were other quiet Chinese girls not of our family, but most of them got over it sooner than we did. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z If I made myself American-pretty so that the five or six Chinese boys in the class fell in love with me, everyone else—the Caucasian, Negro, and Japanese boys—would too. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “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 When we overseas Chinese send money, do the relatives divide it evenly among the commune? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad knew exactly five Chinese phrases, and four of them were swears. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The last scroll has columns of Chinese words. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My father said they didn’t have rules for dealing with the Chinese wife of a Caucasian citizen. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Nobody here looks like a murderer, they're all nice people, even this fat Chinese man who grumbles all the time. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Chinese are reputed to have invented rocketry. Something called ‘Chinese arrows’ are mentioned in Europe and the Middle East as far back as the thirteenth century. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “What is this writing?” asks my mother in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He stays in his apartment, which is no longer neat and empty but is filling up with disorganized parts of his life: take-out Chinese food containers, unwashed sheets. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Shirley spent the weekend after Thanksgiving writing a ten-page letter to her cousins in Chinese describing her debut onstage as a turkey. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z He loved Indian and Chinese food and consumed what seemed like barrelsful of salads whenever they were available. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z I kept thinking about the U-boats off our coast and those lake tankers with barefooted Chinese sailors on board. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It might as well have been written in Chinese. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I wrote my grandmother that I had watched a Chinese magician swallow three yards of fire. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Voices speaking Chinese came from the front room, and when Emily peered in, she saw they were from a flat-screen TV perched on a cabinet. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z We’d never seen colored people eating with them, and here was our mother eating with chopsticks like the Chinese men that I had read about who worked on the railroads. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to the word BIRTHDATE, I wrote May 11, 1918, which this girl insisted was the same as three months after the Chinese lunar new year. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z So with him, she spoke in moods and gestures, looks and silences, and sometimes a combination of English punctuated by hesitations and Chinese frustration: “Shwo buchulai”— Words cannot come out. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Reading the label we saw that it belonged to another Chinese family, Crazy Mary’s family. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Now Filipino men were imported to the sugar fields to compete with the Chinese and Japanese. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In this they are quite unlike testimonies, which degrade as they pass from ear to ear in an endless game of Chinese whispers; eighteenth-century probability theorists actually devised formulae for calculating this rate of degradation. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We usually order Chinese food for dinner, jam a little on our guitars, and watch a movie. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z It was a jumble of Chinese odds and ends. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z In return for exporting bird of paradise plumes and spices, New Guineans received Southeast Asian goods, including even such luxury items as Dong Son bronze drums and Chinese porcelain. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Which one was he more: Chinese or colored? One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Then they associated themselves in fantastic, untranslatable shapes, like Arabic or Chinese. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z None of Brave Orchid’s children was happy like the two real Chinese babies who died. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The week they’d arrived, Mia had gotten a job at Lucky Palace, a local Chinese restaurant; several afternoons and evenings a week, she took and packaged up takeout orders at the counter. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Well, I don’t know if it’s explicitly stated in the law, but you can’t ever tell a Chinese mother to shut up. You could be charged as an accessory to your own murder.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z This was because she couldn’t figure out how the Chinese dates, based on the lunar calendar, translated into American dates. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s a cheap brand of Chinese tobacco, and it has an unpleasant taste.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was not always easy to be a Chinese child in a Jamaican schoolyard. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Similarly restricted uses characterize early Egyptian, Mesoamerican, and Chinese writing. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “That is exactly how people beat Chinese handcuffs. They turn into iguanas.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z We played capture-the-flag in the auditorium, where Sun Yat-sen and Chiang Kai-shek’s pictures hung at the back of the stage, the Chinese flag on their left and the American flag on their right. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Still following other men, Shin climbed into a boxcar bound for Chongjin, the largest city in the far north of the country and a gateway to rail lines leading to the Chinese border. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z 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 Gan mao — to catch cold — was one Chinese phrase they understood completely. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to figure out the alphabet so I can write in Chinese, but I give up so I can read our place settings—which explain the Chinese Zodiac. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z When we came out of the movies, I started kicking and chopping and stuff, telling Charlie I wished I was Chinese so then I could know karate. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z She had an American name that sounded like “Ink” in Chinese. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z We all wore pith helmets to protect us from the sun except Lin Nai-Nai who wore a Chinese straw hat. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t tell by her answer if the games were different or just her attitude toward Chinese and Jewish people. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z She learned to cook, so that she’d have Chinese food to eat. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I was a sophomore at Galileo High in San Francisco, and all my Caucasian friends agreed: I was about as Chinese as they were. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Italian, Thai, Dutch, Korean, and Chinese—we all left: class foolishly believing that the worst was over. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z If she kept working with Chinese codes, she would have this problem over and over again. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Copper coins and a damp wad of Chinese red paper cash. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z I would really make my shine rag sound like someone had set off Chinese firecrackers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Like the people of the East, Africans have a highly developed sense of dignity, or what the Chinese call “face.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Chinese writing is not purely logographic, nor is English writing purely alphabetic. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z He will remember eating watered-down curry off paper plates, sometimes pizza or Chinese ordered specially for the kids. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z 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 We stop at this Chinese restaurant Momma loves and get food for all of us. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Sitting cross- legged on the doorstep was an old Chinese man. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z And I didn't know if it was okay to tell, especially over Chinese food. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Its potters produced the delicate celadon ware that had achieved fame not only in Korea but as far away as the court of the Chinese emperor. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “So ungrateful,” I heard her mutter in Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “A cat is a cat. There are no foreign cats, no Chinese cats, no capitalist cats, no Communist cats. Just cats.” Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was like how Mandarin speakers can sort of understand Cantonese but not really, even though non-Chinese people assume all Chinese can communicate with one another, even though Mandarin and Cantonese are actually different. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They could see that the medical texts were together, but many books were in Chinese, a mystery. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Chinese say it’s better to be deprived of food for three days than tea for one.” A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “I just read the name off the screen. Some Chinese tourist marked it on Google Maps.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z San Francisco had denied licenses to all Chinese applicants, but granted licenses to all but one of the non-Chinese laundry operators who applied. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Like their contemporaries in Greece, the Han Chinese saw virtue in the relationship between musical pitch in music - the relative distance between notes - and the arrangement of the stars and planets they observed above them. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Most evenings, the younger kids in the house will gather in the kitchen to study Chinese, and a tutor uses the bamboo stick to point out characters on the blackboard. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They turned to see a young Chinese man wearing jeans and a polo shirt. The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Added Shin to his name when he went into the restaurant business because it sounded more Chinese. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z In particular, North and South Chinese are genetically and physically rather different: North Chinese are most similar to Tibetans and Nepalese, while South Chinese are similar to Vietnamese and Filipinos. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The only Chinese characters he could recognize were his family name: Zhang. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The barge was empty, and from the blow it sounded as if our arrival to Flushing had been announced with a Chinese gong. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z I know this, because I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people’s misery, to eat my own bitterness. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z As a present, he had brought with him from the Midwest a child, half Chinese and half white. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z A few seconds later a 3-D model of the Chinese handcuffs appeared on the screen. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z All this talk of Chinese food has made me hungry. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z And that mattered, the way it mattered that she be busy but not busy at the same time — that, while competent, she be a Chinese girl. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 I begin my school day in a French class; in the afternoon, it’s Chinese; and in the evening, I am busy with my Khmer class. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish Father would appear in my class speaking beautiful English as he does French and Chinese and hold out his hand for mine. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z At one place there were fistfights; at another a supervisor who hated Chinese and Mexicans. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z While a coarse racial classification of world peoples lumps all Chinese people as so-called Mongoloids, that category conceals much more variation than the differences between Swedes, Italians, and Irish within Europe. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Even worse, it focused on the angle she most wanted to avoid—the fact that she had cracked Chinese codes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z 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 “Have you eaten yet?” the Chinese greet one another. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chinese bakery downstairs from our flat displayed my growing collection of trophies in its window, amidst the dust-covered cakes that were never picked up. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z He tried the Arabic right to left and the Chinese columns. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z To be fair, Hucbald merely experimented with this concept rather than invented it; it had been circulating in musical theories since antiquity, as indeed it had in Indian and Chinese musical systems. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z English, Hindi and Chinese are all variants of Sapiens language. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z There were two Chinese characters tattooed on the inside of her left wrist and one on her shoulder. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z It’s the sermon that saves millions of Chinese and other heathens from winding up in hell with the Protestants. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z Here and there are the traditional khaki-colored mud-brick huts of the Chinese peasantry. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “All the Chinese guys, you know, outside they look like they live some lousy place, but inside, beautiful.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z We split up the rest, the Chinese, Laotians, Singaporans, Filipinos, the whole transplanted Pacific Rim. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z My Chinese brother and sister had died of an unknown sickness. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She hoped some Chinese, a janitor or a clerk, would look out for Moon Orchid. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a thick red rug on the floor, and he had bought a beautiful cloth of Chinese blue to hang on the side of the wall where the cracks were worst. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Was there anything about the Chinese environment predisposing toward Confucian philosophy and cultural conservatism, which may also have profoundly affected history? Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z The score was 10 to 2, and though the Chinese rookie never got on base again or caught even one ball, Shirley was confident that the next time...next time, she could. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z In America do you knowl This part of the city didn’t actually belong to the Chinese, even though the beggars sat there, even though upper-class Chinese lived there. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That night I went out and bought Chinese food and a collection of Poe stories. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z But I just thought of the Communists as another group of Chinese. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z There were things they did not know how to say in Chinese. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Tacked to the back of the door was a design that looked Chinese. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought all the time they were khaki, army issue khaki, until I saw they were of heavy Chinese silk or finest flannel because they made his face so brown his eyes so blue. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z This used to be where you came to get wholesale clothing, and it still is; but the old Jewish delis are disappearing, replaced by Chinese emporia, wicker furniture, cutwork tablecloths, bamboo wind chimes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The strange thing about them was their clothing, for the boys were dressed in the straight trousers and the frogged and braided jackets of the Chinese. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z You wondered how the five people had been introduced into the place, as if it were a Chinese puzzle. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, instead of taking pictures of all the Chinese people and the temples and dragons, they pointed their cameras at us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z To while away time, she and her niece talked about the Chinese passengers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Chinese people do business, do medicine, do painting. Not lazy like American people. We do torture. Best torture.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Dawn Madden's got cruel eyes like a Chinese empress and sometimes one glimpse at school makes me think about her all day. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z They knew my face was not one hundred percent Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of standard English, everyone spoke Hawaiian Pidgin, a language mash-up created by Hawaiians and early Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, and American immigrants. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z The Chinese did not admire a bent back; goddesses and warriors stood straight. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The second film focused upon the Chinese people’s support for the Afro-American straggle. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The Chinese Ambassador, Mr. Huang Ha, a most perceptive, and also most militant man, focused upon the efforts of the West to divide Africans from the peoples of African heritage elsewhere. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell myself this each morning after checking the news for Chinese earthquakes. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z What she really wanted, though, was a Chinese expert who could speak the Cantonese dialect. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z For months he had been talking to Chinese and Korean gang leaders, in an effort to halt their street extortion and violence, negotiate some kind of settlement. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z We went to English class together, speaking to each other in those new words and sometimes taking out a piece of paper to write a Chinese character to show what we meant. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z At the fair he took her on the Ferris Wheel and hired a gondola and walked with her on the dark fragrant paths of the Wooded Island, in the soft glow of Chinese lanterns. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She must never forget China or lose her Chinese. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z From the cowherds and ranch manager he learned some conversational Chinese. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z However, European writings from Roman and medieval times clearly describe the arrival of bubonic plague and possibly smallpox from the east, so these germs could be of Chinese or East Asian origin. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Very early on Chinese New Year’s morning Grandma shook me awake. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Chinese employers are also free to cheat, abuse, or get rid of their North Korean help at any time. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z I was so embarrassed I told her that Chinese people were not allowed to shop there. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z After graduating from Big Creek, the story I got was he had spent his entire time in Korea on top of the same mountain, waiting for the Chinese to come up and kill him. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “But look what they did to her. Scratched her face, and gave her a Chinese burn!” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z 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 When she returns hot and fatigued from a day of shopping, the first thing she does, following Chinese culture, is to take off her sandals and leave them at the door. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A few days later, asked for his opinion of a rumor circulating about that a “Red Chinese” plot brought about the murder, Farmer said, “I would not say it is impossible.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Hot food, cold food, Chinese, Italian, you name it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z The Chinese blushed, wishing her teacher would stop praising her, or at least not in front of the others. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The headlights disclosed a lane of Chinese elms; bundles of wind-blown thistle scurried across it. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z They were the only Chinese kids in the school, out of a thousand pupils. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Two elderly Chinese men have taken our old ones. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Whenever I ask her if we can order pizza or Chinese food, she says I’m spoiled and tells me to make myself a quesadilla. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Only her skin and her hair are Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I thought your papers are wrong, and you’re seventy-two, seventy-three in Chinese years.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z That’s why he claims to “do business with Chinese pirates all the time.” The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z Chinese court astrologers who made inaccurate predictions were executed. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, the other kids laughed at her and called her White Baby Lover and Big Baby, except for the boy who looked both colored and Chinese. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z That, Bundy said, or an all-out invasion of North Vietnam, which would probably draw in the Chinese army and turn into an even bigger calamity. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z How could the American “I,” assuredly wearing a hat like the Chinese, have only three strokes, the middle so straight? The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, Taiwan Strait may have served as the training ground where mainland Chinese developed the open-water maritime skills that would permit them to expand over the Pacific. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Leo had a terrifying image of his Aunt Rosa and some old Chinese woman in wrestlers’ outfits, whaling on each other with spiked clubs. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z I used to press my ear against it and listen for Chinese rickshaw pullers or Japanese Zeros or a monsoon puffing away a village on stilts. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z When we read, “Down with the new tsars!” someone deliberately dragged out the English phrase and turned it into Chinese, niu-zha-zi, beef crackling. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After a while they got hungry and decided to head to ABC, the fast-food Chinese food restaurant up the hill from their neighborhood. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Okay,” I said, “how could such a small Chinese kid like you fight so good?” We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z The old Chinese man didn’t turn his head, but he looked slyly at the boy out of the corner of his eye. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z While he was talking I thought in my head how weird it was that some Chinese kid knew ten times more about Mexico than I did. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Lee, men are fools. I guess I hadn’t thought about it, but Chinese men are fools too.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Two Negro kids enrolled in Chinese school, and the teachers gave them Chinese names. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I smile, this time with my Chinese face. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Abra, let me tell you about myself. I’m a servant. I’m old. I’m Chinese. These three you know. I’m tired and I’m cowardly.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He thought of the burial mounds that dotted the Chinese countryside — the small mounds for nobodies, the big mounds for big shots. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Duma had accompanied Walter on his trip to the Youth Conference in Bucharest, and that night he entertained us with the Russian and Chinese songs he had learned on his trip. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It brought them out of their Chinese shells too, and right now they are studying Greek.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Years ago, his mother had told him that their family name, Zhang, meant “master of bows” in Chinese. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Aside from the basic African dialects, I would try to learn Chinese, because it looks as if Chinese will be the most powerful political language of the future. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When she could not have Chinese food, she did not eat. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z And then she pointed her crab leg toward her future son- in-law, Rich, and said, “See how this one doesn’t know how to eat Chinese food.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of the street signs are subtitled in Chinese, mul- ticulturalism on the march, others have Fashion District underneath the names. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z My mother was quiet at last, dabbing her nose with Kleenex while the minister talked: “I can just see her now, wowing the angels with her Chinese cooking and gung-ho attitude.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Other major features of North Chinese societies that spread southward were bronze technology, Sino-Tibetan languages, and state formation. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Spends most of her time in the Chinese restaurant or the beauty parlor. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, it’s Chinese. A form of divination—fortune-telling, really....And, yes, they use sticks. It’s only up there for decoration,” she said, as if to reassure Lyra that she didn’t really believe in it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Noodle soup is a traditional breakfast for Cambodians and Chinese. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z And now I also see what part of me is Chinese. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The lucky numbers were on one side, just like they always are, and the learn Chinese message told me that in Chinese, winter is dong tian. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The other Chinese girls did not talk either, so I knew the silence had to do with being a Chinese girl. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z I pressed the two twenty-dollar bills for the Chinese food on the table into a neat stack so they were one right on top of the other. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z The boat carries around fifty Chinese men who have paid $20,000 each to smugglers to ship them to America. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In their genes and skeletons as well as in external appearance, the Japanese are very similar to other East Asians, including North Chinese, East Siberians, and especially Koreans. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Her complaints, all in Chinese, sounded just like her complaints about customers who wanted extra duck sauce or a free egg roll. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The only son of a wealthy missionary couple, the Laughing Man was kidnapped in infancy by Chinese bandits. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z There is a small crowd milling outside the Chinese takeout, which Janice says is the neighborhood’s best. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Later we saw a new loquat tree most similar to ours in a Chinese neighbor’s yard. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the church sign, in handwritten Chinese characters, someone had added: “A Chinese Ceremony to Save Ghosts from Spiritual Unrest 7 A.M. and 8:30 A.M.” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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