Both my parents were Chinese, but I couldn't understand a word these relatives were saying growing up in California, I was so determined to be American that I refused to attend Chinese language school, and I didn't pick it up from my parents' conversations.
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Before I learned English, everything I learnt from Chinese books, and I thought oh this is what they say.
"I'm interested in all things Chinese and I live a very Chinese life in America, " he said.
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And yet, when I got to the end of Awakening Giants, I definitely felt that most of the questions I had about the Chinese and Indian political economies (and I suspect these are ones that other Americans interested in Asia are likely to have as well) had been answered very effectively.
When I said it was because I teach Chinese history in the U.S. and my research focus is on Shanghai history, he also said something striking.
And I see the power of music when I'm on stage in China: I start a Chinese song and the audience roars with delight that the blond, curly-haired girl with the banjo can sing their music.
Mr. LOPEZ: (Through translator) I've been telling them about a Chinese buffet I went to.
Because I am a Chinese native and American citizen, I have straddled two cultures and lived at the crossroads of the East and West.
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When I dropped by during a visit to Beijing last September, I found Chinese security guards manning the reception desk behind a set of locked glass doors.
Even after finished the movie I asked my assistant (my assistant is American-born Chinese), I said, Hey what do you think?
When I first got to know the Chinese, one of the things I most enjoyed about them was their powerful sense of who they were, their confidence in who they were.
That is why the billionaire Mr. Chen, who I wrote about in "What I Learned from A Chinese Billionaire, " walks the halls of hospitals giving out money to poor people as they wait in line for hours to see doctors.
Many young Chinese I met adopted English names and prided themselves on being westernized.
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So as a Chinese I really want to improve it, slow down and solve this problem.
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Frankly, I have seen management in a service business in China by Chinese companies, and I do not think foreign players, least of all those from Japan, can compete.
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In Hong Kong, I watched a newly-arrived American executive meet with his Chinese team members, and I saw the new man destroy in five seconds the delicate and productive relationship that the incumbent had taken over a year to build.
Recently I was amused by a conversation I overheard while waiting for my Chinese takeout.
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And I am very sorry that my Chinese is not as good as your English, but I am looking forward to this chance to have a dialogue.
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And if it does, I think together, between the South Koreans, the Japanese, the Russians, the Chinese and ourselves, I think we can have a real impact.
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Although I profiled Jack Ma in my book The Chinese Dream, it was the first time I heard him in person giving a public speech.
Amplification: I speak read and write Chinese, and have been obsessed with US-China engagement and understanding since I was 16.
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Since my family couldn't understand Chinese, I thought we were going to be arrested.
To battle this dark hopelessness, I started Chinese calligraphy and taichi lessons to calm down and maintain some social contact.
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When I read Chinese strategists, they refer to the world this way.
"The fear there was people would think I was Chinese, " he says.
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better.
Since my family couldn't speak Chinese, I had to guide them, somehow, through more than 2, 000 miles in China and then into Southeast Asia.
One U.S.-educated Chinese lawyer I met with agreed with this sentiment.
If someone had told me as recently as five years ago, let alone in 1992 when I first came here, that the Chinese would be spending so much on Western-style weddings, I simply would not have believed it.
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