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“Liang Qichao, one of China’s leading reformers of the early twentieth century, hailed the importance of the individual in national development, but renounced that view after he visited San Francisco’s Chinatown in 1903 and concluded that the competition between separate Chinese clans and families was preventing Chinese people from prospering. “If we were to adopt a democratic system of government now,” he wrote, “it would be nothing less than committing national suicide.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

“We spoke in Chinese, but when he was surprised, he’d say, “Oh, my Lady Gaga!,” an English expression he’d picked up at school.”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

“(Nearly half of all Chinese tourists in one market survey reported eating no more than one “European-style” meal on a trip to the West.)”
― Evan Osnos, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China

“The U.S. financial markets had always been either corrupt or about to be corrupted.”
― Michael Lewis, Flash Boys: A Wall Street Revolt