Macyso

“a generation:
the black night gave me black eyes
still I use them to seek the light”
― Gu Cheng

“But it's not really Chinese, is it?'
Logan was thoughtful for a moment. "I don't know. I guess you'd say it's really not if you look back thousands of years. But I don't think that way. Lots of things start out not Chinese and end up that way.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“Harvard has now de facto become a Chinese outpost.”
― Thorsten J. Pattberg

“I intend to see that justice is done by presiding, in the manner of the omnipotent Walter Mitty, as chief justice of a tribunal trying the case of those plotting further advances for the Chinese characters on an international scale. Emulating the operatic Mikado's "object all sublime... to let the punishment fit the crime," I hand down the following dread decree:

Anyone who believes Chinese characters to be a superior system of writing that can function as a universal script is condemned to complete the task of rendering the whole of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address into Singlish.

”
― John DeFrancis, The Chinese Language: Fact and Fantasy