A pauper to a king By Yang Yang | China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-30 09:05 Share CLOSE Writer Deng Anqing in Zhaitang town, Mentougou district, Beijing, in 2015. [Photo provided to China Daily]
In the middle of the interview, Deng Anqing stopped and took out his smartphone. He wanted to find a reader s comment posted under a podcast in which he talked about how he became a writer.
It was a day when he was a 14-year-old middle school student. A monthly magazine mailed a check to the school for running Deng s short story. After morning exercise, the headmaster took out the check and told the whole school that they had someone with talent in their ranks.