Ch'in Shih-huang is the first emperor of China. He united SEVEN separate kingdoms into a single nation. He BUILT the Great Wall and was buried with the terra-cotta soldiers. The CHINESE have mixed feelings about him. They're proud of the nation he CREATED, but he was a maniacal tyrant.

I have to GET out once a week and SPEAK with people or I start thinking I'm the EMPEROR of Abyssinia.

In 2014, we were opposing PRESIDENT Xi Jinping. FIVE YEARS LATER, we are opposing EMPEROR Xi Jinping.

There's a dark underside to PHILANTHROPY. People who GIVE a bunch of money are deferred to, even when they are wrong. The EMPEROR cannot be shown to have no CLOTHES.

For years now, Chinese parents and teachers have lamented what's known as the 'xiao huangdi' - or LITTLE emperor - PHENOMENON, a generation of PAMPERED and entitled children who believe they sit at the center of the social universe because that's exactly how they've been treated.

I'm not the GRAND poobah. I'm not the EMPEROR. That's not what I WANT to be.