Tam

“She and her family hadn't invited me in order to make a point about xenophobia, or anything like that. They knew that I was alone on the holiday, and i was their friend; nothing else mattered. They were simply big-hearted people and that was the best meal I ever had in China.”
― Peter Hessler, River Town: Two Years on the Yangtze

“Once, after lecturing before the Malaysia Art Council, I was asked by an English curator, during the question period, why all Chinese paintings look alike. I replied that the reason was the same why Orientals, when first coming to the West, are unable to differentiate between the various European nationalities - lack of exposure and not being familiar enough with the subject to know where and how to look for the variations and telling characteristics.”
― Kwo Da-Wei, Chinese Brushwork in Calligraphy and Painting: Its History, Aesthetics, and Techniques

“How cyclical and bittersweet for a child to retrace the image of their mother. For a subject to turn back to document their archivist.”
― Michelle Zauner, Crying in H Mart

“The history of China, like the history of any great culture, was written at the expense of other stories that have remained silent.”
― Peter Hessler, Oracle Bones: A Journey Between China's Past and Present