China property rights: the shot heard round the world?
“Why are words important?”
Partway through Bernardo Bertolucci’s sumptuous epic The Last Emperor, the young Pu Yi is being tutored by the gentleman’s gentleman, who carefully explains to him, with orotund gravity and dentured stately cadence:
“Words are important.”
“Why are words important?”
“If you cannot say what you mean, your majesty,
You cannot mean what you say,
And a […]
