In the Guizhou mountains of the 1970s, Chen Fan grew up amid the rank smell of earth and weeds. His family had nothing, and mountain winds seeped through the mud walls, but even as he faced their ruin, a fire burned in his eyes that refused to go out.
From earning work points at home to put food in his belly, to digging coal alone to support his family,
then borrowing money to go work in the provincial capital,
starting a small business,
through all the gains and losses,
he made the glimmer of stardust shine like a blazing sun.
