[speaking chinese] what i mean is that this book is about ambition. Literally in chinese, it is about the wild heart. That is the term people use in chinese to describe ambition. Wild heart, for a long time in chinese was an unimaginable idea. If you are accused of being ambitious, you are accused of being wild hearted. That was a death sentence. What it meant was that you put the group before anything else. Im sorry, you put yourself before the group. For chinese history, that was unimaginable under the confucian period or the socialist period. When i got there, things were beginning to change in some deep way. What i began to hear around me was people talking about themselves, not in a self glamorizing or selfpromotional way, but just in a self protective way. They would say that it matters what i want in this world. Even the term in chinese for myself was transforming. People were getting comfortable using it. In the United States, we talk about the me generation. In china, it was a
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