A Boy from China—I Tried My Best describes the personal losses and awards in my later life. When I was fifty-eight years old, I transformed my life from a college professor’s to that of a businessman. This book is my life experience.

I first suffered from the loss of my youngest son, which was most devastating to me. Subsequently, I lost my mother to cancer. The one person who was dearest to me was forever gone. My father, after he suffered from a bone fracture, died within three years of my mother.

I was lucky when I was in a long meeting and I discovered blood in my urine. After diagnosis, it was bladder cancer. Since it was discovered early, my doctor could operate on me and save my life. But my assistant Russ was not so lucky; with the same illness, he only survived several months, from beginning to the end.

In 1990, I won a large contract—$240 million—after two years’ negotiation and bargaining. Thus, President Bush gave me an award in the White House. The region and the state of Virginia also gave me the Person of the Year awards. Transpacific Magazine wrote an article about me in May 1994 and called me the $240 Million Professor.

When I traveled to China, I caught pneumonia. There the hospital had no antibiotics except their own antibiotic newly developed in-house, called Pioneer Four. When the doctors administered the Pioneer Four on me, I responded well and I was cured.

In 1997, I was among the eleven delegates of the Committee of 100, to meet with Taiwan’s President Li and China’s President Jiang. In the meantime, I was an eyewitness of the Hong Kong takeover from the British. In 1998, I set up meetings between Dr. Pat Robertson and many
of the heads of Chinese government, including Prime Minister Rong-Ji Zhu and the religious leaders of China.

I revisited my long-lost friends and relatives and found out how they were doing. I had visited many heads of states and lectured throughout the world. In my retirement years, I traveled all around the world by land trips, ocean, and river cruises, many times with my poker buddies from Rochester, New York.