Analysis: Cracking China's Da Vinci Code 2035

Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff writer and editorial writer at Nikkei. He has spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He is the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize for international reporting.

TOKYO -- Dan Brown's fictional professor Robert Langdon cracks secret code after secret code in the bestselling novel "The Da Vinci Code" until finally arriving at the biggest secret of all -- that the last descendant of Jesus Christ is standing before him.