“The Great Wall ... is evidence of a historical inability of people in this part of the planet to communicate, to confer and jointly determine how best to deploy enormous reserves of human energy and intellect.”
Ryszard Kapuscinski
China was one of the first foreign assignments for the great journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski. It was not a success. He bemoaned in his last book, Travels with Herodotus, that he failed to penetrate the country, and never slipped the control of his minders.
