Echo of the Times

"Echoes of the Times": A personal epic that runs through reform and opening up From crying in the countryside of Hunan in 1974 to looking back in his study in Shenzhen in 2024, Chen Mingyuan spent half his life completing a journey that spanned the ages. He is a child growing out of the soil, and at the other end of the five-mile dirt road is the first light of knowledge that changes his destiny. In 1992, when filling out the application form, he crossed out "safe" and wrote "Shanghai Jiaotong University". From then on, he left his hometown and joined the torrent of steel. In the laboratory in Shanghai and in the entrepreneurial field of Shenzhen, he experienced the technological craze and the ups and downs of capital. He established a communication lifeline in Wenchuan in 2008, and heard the dialect phrase "Don't be too tired" in front of his father's bedside. He built a nest city, but he drifted away from his daughter; he pursued success, but was on the verge of bankruptcy in the cold winter of the epidemic. When all the hustle and bustle fell silent, he finally typed out his memories in front of the computer. This is a journey of reconciliation spanning fifty years, and also the spiritual autobiography of a generation - about leaving home and taking root, struggle and loss, rupture and reconstruction. If you have ever run out of your hometown, searched for coordinates in the city, and struggled between family and yourself, this work will allow you to see your own reflection. "Echoes of the Times" not only looks back at the past, but also illuminates the truth about our common existence.