Peter Chong: Yang
Quotes
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Yang : Yes, but don't forget, you foreign devil here!
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Gladys Aylward : Yang, I've tried to learn Chinese from a book...
Yang : Book don't know! I teach. We point things, then I tell you.
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Gladys Aylward : Are those girls his daughters?
Yang : Not exactly daughters. More like wives. But, not exactly wives.
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Gladys Aylward : What do you think he wants?
Yang : Maybe he make us close down. Maybe this Last Supper like Bible say.
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Yang : Mandarin say, Captain Lin ask him to help you. So, he offer you job on his staff: foot inspector.
Gladys Aylward : Foot inspector?
Yang : Foot inspector will tour district, see people no more bind feet of female children, to make small. If female under 30, unbind.
Gladys Aylward : Well, I certainly approve of that.
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Yang : Mandarin agree to what you ask and forgive you for the way you speak to him - this time. In a world full of frightened people, he likes courage wherever he find it - even in a rude and angry woman.
Gladys Aylward : I am the Mandarin's servant.
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Yang : [storytelling to visitors at the Inn] Now, on the night the baby Lord Jesus was born in that stable in Bethlehem, several came to bow down to him and his mother, the Lady Mary. There were three powerful warlords known as the Magi who brought many fine gifts. And still another! A wonderful man, a sea captain named Noah, came to visit Jesus. His ship was called Noah's ark. The Lord Jesus liked this Noah, for he was a a wise man, especially in the ways of animals, whom he often took sailing in his ark. This man, Noah...
Jen-Ai : Yang.
Yang : This man, Noah, was born long before the Lord Jesus. But, many in those days lived to be very old. So, no one can be sure, no one at all, that Noah did not visit Jesus in that stable in Bethlehem.
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Yang : I'm very tired. I die soon. Not so bad, to die. Not good; but, not so bad.
