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Life

Fiction

Lu Yao's early novella about ambition, class, love, and disappointment in rural China. Jack Ma has said the book affected him after he failed the college entrance exam, pushing him to try again rather than settle for the temporary work he had taken.

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Jack Ma

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The same China Entrepreneur/Sina article reports Ma's account that Lu Yao's Life pushed him to retake the college entrance exam after an early failure.

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