I Like Chinese

"I Like Chinese" is a song written and performed by Eric Idle of Monty Python. It was originally on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album from 1980 and later included on the CD Monty Python Sings.

The song has four verses, with the fourth being sung in Chinese. Each verse discusses how the world has become a terrible place (due in part to "nuclear bombs that can blow us all sky high"), with the exception of the Chinese people. The song's lyrics are mainly made up of stereotypes about Chinese people. An example of this is the stereotype that Chinese people are short, in the line "They only come up to your knees". The singer further mentions that "there are 900 million of them in the world today" and mentions Chinese food, maoism, taoism, I-Ching, chess, their tiny little trees, Zen, ping pong, Yin and Yang, and Confucius. Near the end of the song, an erhu starts playing to add more Chinese atmosphere.

In Australia, the song is used by electrical retailer Bing Lee (as "I like Bing Lee").

Chinese lyrics

The Mandarin lyrics to the fourth verse are:
我爱中国人 (I like Chinese)
我爱中国人 (I like Chinese)
我爱中国人 (I like Chinese)
你好吗, 你好吗, 你好吗, 再见! (How are you, how are you, how are you, goodbye!)