The Art of Supporting a Family: The Rise and Fall of a Shanghai Man in the Stock Market
Chapter 1: A Beast Trapped in a Cubicle
I was born in 1971, a native of Shanghai. I grew up in an ordinary working-class family in Yangpu District. My father was a fitter at a machinery factory, and my mother tended looms at a textile mill. I had an older sister and a younger brother. The five of us squeezed into an old longtang house of just over twenty square meters.
Life was hard when I was a child, but simple, too. After school, the kids in the alley would run wild together, playing picture cards, marbles, and rolling hoops. When it got dark, the adults would call us home for dinner. We didn't have many toys back then, and we didn't...
I benefited a lot