You are a medical doctor, with a PhD, a currently practicing anesthesiologist in New York City and you just became an Executive Producer and investor of a Hollywood Movie. "The Comeback Trail" stars 3 Oscar winning actors, Robert Deniro, Tommy Lee Jones, and Morgan Freeman, ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9aJATnSseo ).
Tell me about your background. Did you envision your success from a young age? I was born in a very large city, the city of ShenYang, China, during the cultural revolution. This was a time when my father was a politician and my mother was a medical doctor. During a horrific turbulent time in China’s history, my father’s political views did not agree with the communist party. He was forced to step down from his position as a result of his opposition, then was punished for his anti-cultural revolution view. A traumatic, yet hardening scene in my life was when my father was tortured and beaten, in front of us. After these events, my whole family was exiled to a remote farm far away from the big city, to get re-educated by peasants. My mother would work in the village, forced to treat patients who suffered from a variety of medical conditions.
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At age 3, I couldn't understand what was happening to my family, I was a happy child dreaming of a good life ahead of me. But soon I sensed the darkness around me, I could feel the people's anger towards me: I was singled out as a bad child, from a bad family, by teachers and students who knew who my parents were, and this all began when I started elementary school. Even though l studied well and was always at the head of my class, I was never granted an award when the other students were receiving theirs. My passion for the arts was immense, even at a young age I was very competitive by nature and my dream was to be an artist. By the time I was 13, the culture revolution was finished and China started to reform. Finally, the government admitted the punishment for my father and my family was wrong, the exile was overturned. My father was given his honor back, but he never got to see or hear, because he had passed away in his sleep a few months earlier.
