Civilian Entrepreneurship: Starting Life Anew: An Oral History of 54 Laid-off Workers

Author: Li Jin
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Any work must resonate with the pulse of the times to win enduring vitality. Transformation is the greatest characteristic of our era. A few may become favorites of the transformation, but most need to evolve through it, to be reborn in the flames of desire. Transformation brings them impact, pain, reflection, and awakening. The value of a person lies not only in survival, not only in luxury, but in the spark of humanity that ignites from the collision and awakening between society and individuals. Such a life is beautiful, such evolution is real, such insight is true wisdom, and such an era is rich. Reenacting such life trajectories before readers, though simple and unadorned, can provoke deep reflection, allowing one to savor the five flavors of life and appreciate the seven wonders of society. The 54 entrepreneurs chronicled in this book have all endured pain, experienced doubt, encountered confusion, felt setbacks, yet they have all risen from adversity, climbed slopes in hardship, reflected in hesitation, and moved forward under burden. In their veins flows the essence of the Chinese nation—through hardship and tribulation, one is tempered into perfection.