"[With] 140 words in Chinese, you really can write a novel. Most of Confucius’s sentences [are] only four words, so 14…"

"[T]he people of Fan (i.e., India) distinguished sounds; and with them the stress is laid on the sounds, not on the le…"

"Chinese [...] differs from other languages as much as if it were spoken by the inhabitants of another planet."

"The written language at the heart of Chinese civilization was designed for the production of a conservative elite and…"

"Spoken as well as written Chinese is, in one sense, a very difficult language. It is difficult, not because it is com…"

"The longer a language lives, the richer, more diverse and refined it becomes. What happened to Chinese will take plac…"

"Chinese may be called the Latin of the Far East. For, just as Rome through her higher civilisation lent thousands of …"

"Official contemporary Chinese documents in English translate xie jiao as “cults” or “evil cults.” This is both lingui…"

"The student of Chinese will not have to burthen his mind with many rules; but framing his speech according to the nat…"

"A new Chinese language of vastly greater capacity than the old is coming into use through the currency of newspapers,…"