Yang Lee is a simple Chinese peasant boy born into a desperately poor family living in the remote village of Xiao Mao at the beginning of the twentieth century. Most of the Western world is caught up with the amazing inventions of the industrial revolution, yet China will remain entrenched in the ways of her ancient past for many more decades. Vast tracts of remote landscape within China's territories lay untouched by the frenetic pace and devouring...