History of Tibet/manchurian Qing Dynasty

Famous quotes containing the words history of, history, tibet and/or qing:

    “Let us not underrate the value of a fact; it will one day flower in a truth. It is astonishing how few facts of importance are added in a century to the natural history of any animal. The natural history of man himself is still being gradually written.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “I am not a literary man.... I am a man of science, and I am interested in that branch of Anthropology which deals with the history of human speech.”
    —J.A.H. (James Augustus Henry)

    “Ever since you came back from Tibet I’ve had a feeling you were planning to divorce me and marry a laboratory.”
    —John Colton (1886–1946)

    “There cannot be peaceful coexistence in the ideological realm. Peaceful coexistence corrupts.”
    —Jiang Qing (1914–1991)