Quotation

In China there’s a saying, “People fear getting famous just as pigs fear getting fat,” reflecting the observation that fame invites a fall just as a fattened pig invites the butcher. On the other hand, as Rupert Hoogewerf (aka Hu Run), the creator of the Rich List, has noted, “Pigs that deserve to die will die, whether or not they make it onto the rich list.” === As I look back over China’s sixty years under communism, I sense that Mao’s Cultural Revolution and Deng’s open-door reforms have given China’s grassroots two huge opportunities: the first to press for a redistribution of political power and the second to press for a redistribution of economic power. === Finally the dealer pointed at the driver’s seat. “It took two cows to make this,” he said. “The leather is cut only from the finest part of the hide.”