- Can you explain a Chinese proverb for me, Chief Inspector Chen – Mogao yice, daogao yizhang?”
” – The literal translation is this : The devil is ten inches tall, and the way, or justice, is a hundred inches tall. In other words, powerful as evil is, justice will prevail. The original proverb actually read the other way around. The ancient Chinese sage had been more pessimistic about the power of the evil.