This book contains 87 interviews reflecting a wide range of personal experiences between 1991 and 2008. The interviewees come
from different occupations and different places. They include a azz player in Heilongjiang Province, a rock-and-roll drummer in Tibet, an elderly fruit farmer in Shanxi Province, a Beijing boss just 14 years old, a retired 68-year-old man who ventured alone in Africa, a college student who has adopted a younger sister despite poverty and hardship, and a woman entrepreneur