Qing dynasty
Quotes & Thinkers from Qing dynasty
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"China deals with foreigners from afar only by treating them without discrimination"
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Empress Dowager Cixi
Politics
1835–1908
"Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag."
5 quotes
Tsangyang Gyatso
Literature
1683–1706
15 quotes
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Jin Shengtan
Literature
1608–1661
"To open the window and let a wasp out of the room. Ah, is this not happiness?"
11 quotes
Lu Xun
Literature
New Culture Movement
1881–1936
"Savage as a lion, timid as a rabbit, crafty as a fox..."
8 quotes
Sun Yat-sen
Politics
1866–1925
"To understand is difficult; to act is easy."
13 quotes
Qianlong Emperor
Politics
1711–1799
"Many people have fled from our China to your place"
6 quotes
Pu Songling
Literature
1640–1715
"How foolish men are, to see nothing but beauty in what is clearly evil! Heaven's Way has its inexorable justice, but some mortals remain foolish and never see the light!"
2 quotes
Dong Fuxiang
1839–1908
"Jung Lu has the guns which my army needs; with their aid not a stone would be left standing in the whole of the Legation Quarter."
2 quotes
Ma Fuxiang
Military
1876–1932
"What, no more? Tell the cook we require ten more courses."
6 quotes
Du Wenxiu
1823–1872
"I have read your religious works and I have found nothing inappropriate."
2 quotes
Zuo Zongtang
Military
1812–1885
"We shall first confront them with arguments...and then settle it on the battlefields."
1 quotes
Wu Peifu
Politics
1874–1939
"The Military Campaigns of the Kingdom of Wu." "They didn't have any machine guns or airplanes then."
2 quotes
Yongzheng Emperor
1678–1735
1 quotes
Ma Bufang
Politics
1903–1975
1 quotes
Yang Zengxin
Politics
1864–1928
1 quotes
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Zhang Chao
Literature
Buddhism
1650–1707
"Those who fail to provide for themselves will eventually injure their friends and those who always provide for their friends will eventually injure themselves."
1 quotes
Wu Jingzi
Literature
1701–1754
1 quotes
Notable Quotes
"By patronizing the Yellow Church we maintain peace among the Mongols. This being an important task we cannot but protect this . we do not show any bias, nor do we wish to adulate the Tibetan priests as Yuan dynasty."
— Qianlong Emperor, b. 1711View →
"Foreigners appreciate only military power. . . . Thus, they submit to us wholeheartedly and do not dare to despise China once we display our hunting techniques to them"
— Qianlong Emperor, b. 1711View →
"Many people have fled from our China to your place"
— Qianlong Emperor, b. 1711View →
"Savage as a lion, timid as a rabbit, crafty as a fox..."
— Lu Xun, b. 1881View →
"If Muslim people do not change their mind in spite of the changes of social conditions, and if we supplement Islamic courtesy and law without explaining and advertising real Islamic beliefs at the same time, then it is impossible to save the minds of the people."
— Ma Fuxiang, b. 1876View →