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"from China to Peru,' as somebody says—Johnson, I think, 'The Rambler,' you know."

"dragons spewing paper flames rolled down the streets of Chinatown like enormous pull toys."

"After a year in China, she admired the efficiency and attention to detail of the Chinese."

"…Bobby Lembeck was their leader… ‘I started to check the sensors after this morning’s episode… but since nobody is going outside, the question is whether we’re reading them wrong… Mae knows these sensors, she’s used them in China.’"

"From the location of the amber, it it is from China."

"They’re made for us in China, and—"

"And then opens China."

"…the French mail steamer, the 'Mei-kong,' en route from China to Marseilles."

"Ibn Khordâdhbeh says (De Goeje’s Transl. p. 47) that rhinoceros is to be found in Kâmeroun (Assam), which borders on China."

"… extended through Bactria, etc., to China, “the States of the Great Mogul” (!) and Siam…"

"who lead austere lives like the Taoists of China"

"when ships were in danger of being lost in the stormy sea that led to China"

"from Pegu to China (India Minor)."

"… this state sent an embassy (so-called) to China in 1422."

"my family in China and America"

"my mother and father left China with one stiff leather trunk filled only with fancy silk dresses."

"She had come here in 1949 after losing everything in China: her mother and father, her family home, her first husband, and two daughters, twin baby girls."

"My mother says July is not a good time to go to China on our honeymoon."

"All I knew was the capital of California, because Sacramento was the name of the street we lived on in Chinatown."

"…Every time I went with her to Chinatown, she pointed out other Chinese women her age."

"My daughter wanted to go to China for her second honeymoon, but now she is afraid."

"walked down an alley that was the entrance to Chinatown."

"…and reports on systems in Persia, India, China, everywhere."

"I did go back to China. My father was a fairly successful man. It didn’t work. They said I looked like a foreign devil; they said I spoke like a foreign devil. I made mistakes in manners, and I didn’t know delicacies that had grown up since my father left. They wouldn’t have me."

"“Millions,” said Lee. “We have more ghosts than anything else. I guess nothing in China ever dies.”"

"We all did. Haven’t you heard? The Dowager Empress is gone. China is free. The Manchus are not overlords and we do not wear queues. It was a proclamation of the new government. There’s not a queue left anywhere."

"“It’s the same with us,” he said. “Nearly all Chinese get sent home to China after they die.”"

"The boy looked in on the fan-tan games in Chinatown, but he didn’t play. It was a mystery, but then fairly simple things were mysteries to Tom Watson and he preferred to leave them that way."

"“I'm going to try to make a winter melon soup,” he said. “Chinese cooking. I have a cousin in Chinatown, and he told me how."

"Joe ran like a rabbit, across the street and over the track toward the stores and alleys of Chinatown."

"…and became an Oriental scholar and discovered the greatest Dharma Bums of them all, the Zen Lunatics of China and Japan."

"The Chinese gangs are all over Chinatown. It’s going to be messy with a shotgun."

"Our visit to Chinatown reminded me of an incident that had taken place in Cholon years before with the crapulent major and myself."

"if the Chinese had never ruled us for a thousand years,"

"I carried a book of his with me to China for infantry training"

"China, to punish us, had raided our northern border earlier in the year, sometime during my examination."

"Where Bush Street roofed Stockton before slipping downhill to Chinatown, Spade paid his fare and left the taxicab."

"In some ways, the saw once of a setret innsceereminded me of an old film Imid-twentieth-century China--walkers, bicyclers, people carrying, pulling, pushing loadsofallkinds."

"Then there he is in Chinatown at ten‐thirty at night, with a lot of Chinamen giving him looks like, 'Didn’t I hear your mother calling you? Isn't it time for you to go home?"

"…Older Brother’s reach and influence was not limited to the Middle Kingdom and its ethnic diaspora, but extended into other neighboring domains: he could sing karaoke with the Japanese salarymen, could polish off two plates of ddukbokki slathered in a tangy, blood‐red gochujang, wash it down with a bottle of milky soju, all while beating the pants off the K-town regulars…"

"…talking about how hard you have it. If you don’t like it here, go back to China."

"Chinatown, like the phoenix, rose from the ashes with a new facade, dreamed up by an American-born Chinese man, built by white architects, looking like a stage-set China that does not exist."

"EXT. CHINATOWN."

"Chinatown, like the phoenix, rose from the ashes with a new facade, dreamed up by an American-born Chinese man, built by white architects, looking like a stage-set China that does not exist."

"…All it takes is a day trip through Georgetown and Chinatown."

"And we used to send people over to China with empty suitcases. They would take units off the factory line over at Foxconn and turn around: Just fly there, pick them up, and fly them back."

"Union thinks we're selling them out on China."

"this kind of cotton appears to be grown also in China, as we gather from a passage in Amyot’s Mémoires (II. 606)."

"… the territory subject to the ‘Great Kaan’, i.e. Kúblái, whom by that time almost the whole of the Middle Kingdom acknowledged as emperor."

"An opportunity to travel with her mother back to China brought a new perspective."

"The daughters know one side of their mothers, but they don’t know about their earlier never-spoken-of lives in China."

"When I was a young girl in China, my grandmother told me my mother was a ghost."

"…the Isle of Women which Kazwini and Bakui place to the South of China; also a Chinese tradition related by Magaillans."

"Aden is mentioned in ch. cccxxxvi. of the Ming History as having sent an embassy to China in 1427."

"I laughed thinking what would happen if I was Fuke the Chinese sage of the ninth century who wandered around China constantly ringing his bell."

"When Auntie An-mei and Uncle George moved to the Sunset district from Chinatown twenty-five years ago..."

"We lived in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Like most of the other Chinese children who played in the back alleys of restaurants and curio shops, I didn’t think we were poor."

"I want to open a bookstore in Chinatown in San Francisco. I would live in the back, and my days would be full of discussions and arguments."

"And we all got together with him, the poets, and drove in several cars to Chinatown for a big fabulous dinner off the Chinese menu"

"all kinds of weeds and dry roots bought in Chinatown and he'd boil up a mess of stuff, just a little, with soy sauce, and that went on top of freshly boiled rice and was delicious indeed, eaten with chopsticks."

"“Don’t look at her,” said my mother as we walked through Chinatown in Oakland."

"I didn’t have one, but the streets were full of them, the Plaza and Chinatown were afire with them."

"“And let me tell you something else—this’ll really blow your mind. Where we’re standing, right now—it used to be Chinatown. There’s all sorts of archaeological stuff they found buried underneath here.”"

"That sum, I wrote to my aunt at summer’s end, paid for my bus ticket to Los Angeles, a few nights in a motel, the deposit on an apartment near Chinatown, and a used ’64 Ford."

"…Even if Older Brother were not actually a real person, he would still be the most important character in some yet‐to‐be‐conceived‐story of Chinatown. Would still be real in everyone’s minds and hearts, the mythical Asian American man, the ideal mix of assimilated and authentic."

"Mostly she’s growing up to be a pretty happy kid, living in this building, in Chinatown, it’s fine. She doesn’t know any better."

"“Over across the tracks down by Chinatown there’s a row of whorehouses.”"

"If you turned left on that street and crossed the tracks you were in Chinatown. If you turned right you were on the Row."

"Castroville Street was deep in sticky mud, and Chinatown was so flooded that its inhabitants had laid planks across the narrow street that separated their hutches."

"I lay down and imagined we slumbered like soldiers even though the only place near Chinatown where one could buy bunk beds was the children’s section of gaudy furniture stores, overseen by Mexicans or people who looked like Mexicans."

"On the Saturday before our appointment with the crapulent major, Bon and I drove to Chinatown. In an alley off Broadway lined with vendors selling wares from folding tables, we bought UCLA sweatshirts and baseball caps at prices that guaranteed they were not official merchandise."

"GREEN Not sure we have a choice. We need someone to help us get around this place. (then) Chinatown is a different world."

"“Where are you from?” “I’m from here. Chinatown. What about you?”"

"Unofficial mayor of the neighborhood. Guardian of Chinatown."