The move was mostly economic: Beijing had banned logging up-country in Yunnan after a series of massive floods along the Yangtze River.

He needed to be, because he had some serious handicaps to overcome, like his taste for up-country mullets and ludicrous beard-and-moustache combinations.

Mafeking of yore was somewhat stately, although it was merely a colonial up-country centre, possessing nothing which was grandiose or even elegant.