> 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!'" --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
