For me [Lai Changxing] is very much symptomatic figure for everything that's happening in China at the moment. People like him have these ambitions and desires and drive to make something of themselves after decades and decades of Maoist, drab rule. They see this is the time to turn their lives around.
In 1970 a young black man named Henry Marrow was murdered in Oxford, North Carolina, by a hot-tempered white businessman. That businessman's son was a friend of then-11-year-old Timothy Tyson, who's now a professor and who now retells the story -- and its tragic aftermath.
For me [Lai Changxing] is very much symptomatic figure for everything that's happening in China at the moment. People like him have these ambitions and desires and drive to make something of themselves after decades and decades of Maoist, drab rule. They see this is the time to turn their lives around.
