I used to think that the down-and-out butcher played by Stephen Chow in From Beijing with Love was just an absurd gag. Then I saw Lin Guanghui, drenched in sweat and utterly satisfied after a session at some private club, brazenly leave behind dozens of pounds of pork belly. Only then did I understand that the world had gone so crazy that I couldn't make sense of it anymore. That day, he became an unsurpassable legend in my eyes. No, he was a god in the eyes of most men. Huacheng, 8 a.m. Once the city's biggest shopping center, the bustling Wangfu Plaza, now stood four stories tall, its...
