> Even in Kunming, a much more culturally Chinese area, people liked to
> quote the time-honored maxim that "the mountains are tall and the emperor
> is far away."

I had to think of the line from Fiddler:

"Is there a proper blessing for the Czar?"
"Yes, 'May God bless and keep the Czar --- far away from here!'"

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