Shencheng, 1992: The Factory Girl Stock God

“When she opened her eyes, she was still tightening screws on an assembly line. Ten minutes later, she had put her supervisor on the layoff list. Three months later, she had the Shenzhen Stock Exchange's giant screen flashing green for her. Three years later, she watched her lover marry someone else at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange, worth tens of billions herself and weeping as if her heart would break.”