Transmigrating Forty Years

His three years of American high school were about to end.

The string of rejection letters from U.S. colleges drove him, a top student for twelve years, almost to the breaking point.

On the day he finally fell into despair, an acceptance letter from New York University arrived.

But after going to sleep the next day, he woke up to find he'd transmigrated from 2016 to 1976, from Los Angeles in the United States to a youth-educated farm in China, transformed from an international student at an American high school into an educated youth sent to the countryside.

The enormous leap in time, place, and identity did not defeat him.

From then on, he embarked on an entirely new journey through life, achieving one brilliant milestone after another...