The family's hometown Gedangdian Village is a very rich village in Wuzhi County, where many villagers had made a fortune through the cashmere car cushions business in the past few decades.

After a mistouch of a button, the orchestra suddenly rose up out of the pit in mid-performance and travelled on past stage level to tower over both the performers and the audience.

the swaggering upspring

And there was a further group, including Jean-Paul Sartre (1905–80), who had been a POW in Germany, and William Golding (1911–93), who had commanded a Royal Navy rocket ship, who were propelled by the ordeals of war to examine the complexities of human nature and human society.