As a child growing up in rural China during the punishing years of the Cultural Revolution, Li Cunxin felt like a small frog stuck in a deep well.
The little frog, so the Chinese fable went, thought the well was the entire universe. Then, one day, another frog shouted down to him from above, telling him all about the wonders of the world beyond.
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