| The difference lies solely in the attitude of the writing. One is serious, the other playful. One desires a human life and feels sorrow or anger at an inhuman one; the other is content with an inhuman one and therefore feels satisfied with it. | |
| 1. Arthur Smith | 2. Authors of Chinese Exclusion Acts |
| 3. Times newspaper editor | 4. Zhou Zuoren |
| 5. Guo Songtao | 6. Hegel |
| 7. Fukuzawa Yukichi | 8. Wang Yuwu |
| 9. Lu Ruoyi | 10. Thomas Mann |
(2)
| We can defend ourselves against an open foe, but an insidious foe, under our generous laws, would be in possession of the citadel before we were aware. The free immigration of Chinese would be for all purposes an invasion by Asiatic barbarians against whom civilization in Europe, fortunately for us, has been frequently defended. | |
| 1. Arthur Smith | 2. Authors of Chinese Exclusion Acts |
| 3. Times newspaper editor | 4. Zhou Zuoren |
| 5. Guo Songtao | 6. Hegel |
| 7. Fukuzawa Yukichi | 8. Wang Yuwu |
| 9. Liu Ruosi | 10. Thomas Mann |
(3)
| Three generations ago, the name of the independent China was called Yidi, which was far away from China | |
| 1. Arthur Smith | 2. Authors of Chinese Exclusion Acts |
| 3. Times newspaper editor | 4. Zhou Zuoren |
| 5. Guo Songtao | 6. Hegel |
| 7. Fukuzawa Yukichi | 8. Wang Yuwu |
| 9. Liu Ruosi | 10. Thomas Mann |
(4)
| The new newspaper of “Daimus” said: “How can Hafu Sewei come to Italy [get] enough to be a treasure state? | |
| 1. Arthur Smith | 2. Authors of Chinese Exclusion Acts |
| 3. Times newspaper editor | 4. Zhou Zuoren |
| 5. Guo Songtao | 6. Hegel |
| 7. Fukuzawa Yukichi | 8. Wang Yuwu |
| 9. Liu Ruosi | 10. Thomas Mann |
(5)
| In the case of such a people, therefore, that which we call history is not to be looked for. … This [Hinduism] makes them incapable of writing history; all that happens is dissipated in their minds into confused dreams. | |
| 1. Arthur Smith | 2. Authors of Chinese Exclusion Acts |
| 3. Times newspaper editor | 4. Zhou Zuoren |
| 5. Guo Songtao | 6. Hegel |
| 7. Fukuzawa Yukichi | 8. Wang Yuwu |
| 9. Liu Ruosi | 10. Thomas Mann |
(6)
| Why this ambivalence? China obviously does not wish to accept a narrative that reads history backward, to take European history since the 17th and 18th centuries as norm. | |
| 1. Arthur Smith | 2. Authors of Chinese Exclusion Acts |
| 3. Times newspaper editor | 4. Zhou Zuoren |
| 5. Guo Songtao | 6. Hegel |
| 7. Fukuzawa Yukichi | 8. Wang Yuwu |
| 9. Liu Ruosi | 10. Thomas Mann |
(7)
| With regard to the interpretation of Chinese literature, the critic has a similar set of attitudes to choose from: Sino-centrism, Eurocentrism, cultural relativism, cultural perspectivism and trans-culturism. | |
| 1. Arthur Smith | 2. Authors of Chinese Exclusion Acts |
| 3. Times newspaper editor | 4. Zhou Zuoren |
| 5. Guo Songtao | 6. Hegel |
| 7. Fukuzawa Yukichi | 8. Wang Yuwu |
| 9. Liu Ruosi | 10. Thomas Mann |
(8)
| Here we have the difference between individual and personality, civilization and culture, social and metaphysical life. The individualistic mass is democratic, the nation aristocratic. | |
| 1. Arthur Smith | 2. Authors of Chinese Exclusion Acts |
| 3. Times newspaper editor | 4. Zhou Zuoren |
| 5. Guo Songtao | 6. Hegel |
| 7. Fukuzawa Yukichi | 8. Wang Yuwu |
| 9. Liu Ruosi | 10. Thomas Mann |
(9)
| This tendency to depreciate the present time is by no means confined to China or to the Chinese, but is found with impartiality all over the earth; yet in the Celestial Empire it seems to have attained a sincerity of conviction not elsewhere equaled. | |
| 1. Arthur Smith | 2. Authors of Chinese Exclusion Acts |
| 3. Times newspaper editor | 4. Zhou Zuoren |
| 5. Guo Songtao | 6. Hegel |
| 7. Fukuzawa Yukichi | 8. Wang Yuwu |
| 9. Liu Ruosi | 10. Thomas Mann |
(10)
| Those who cherish bad friends cannot escape the fate of being branded as a bad person. My heart and determination lie in the refusal of bad friends. | |
| 1. Arthur Smith | 2. Authors of Chinese Exclusion Acts |
| 3. Times newspaper editor | 4. Zhou Zuoren |
| 5. Guo Songtao | 6. Hegel |
| 7. Fukuzawa Yukichi | 8. Wang Yuwu |
| 9. Liu Ruosi | 10. Thomas Mann |