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One In A Billion - Journey Toward Freedom (Hardcover)
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Kai and his mother were sitting on an Air China 747 in San
Francisco International Airport, waiting impatiently for take-off.
Kai's father had passed away a year before in the spring of 1988.
He was taking his mother home to visit his elder brother in China.
The take-off had been delayed because one of the Chinese passengers
failed to show up even though he had already checked his luggage.
He had decided to remain in the US illegally. This incident took
Kai back in time to his own painful and courageous decisions. .. A
12 year old Kai was sitting on the train waiting to leave Beijing
for Manchuria. Young Kai was confused about why he was leaving, not
knowing he and his brothers were being forced to join their exiled
parents in the small city of Tonghua. He had spent the past five
years with an abusive grandmother and Big Brother in Beijing. Life
in Tonghua wasn't any easier for Kai who grew into a teenager with
a different accent and a unique physical appearance - 6'7" by the
age 15. But the most mind-boggling torment for Kai and his family
was still to come. In 1966, the Cultural Revolution began. With
half of his relatives in Taiwan, Kai and his family endured
political persecution and discrimination. He and his brothers were
again forced to leave the city to go to the countryside. Kai set
out to overcome these obstacles. He used his basketball skills to
land a job in a Liuhe grain depot while playing for the depot's
team. Soon after, with China's return to professional sports, two
basketball coaches from the National Sports and Athletics
Commission recruited him for the National Basketball Team's
training camp in Beijing. At the camp, Kai met his best friend
Xiao, a track team member, who was later expelled because his
father had worked for Kuomintang's army. Kai remained a little
longer and then was also expelled for the similar reason.
Determined not to return to the isolation of the small town
factory, he escaped to Canton. He was caught and then force
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