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A naughty Kong Kong teenager dreamed of becoming an expert in water resources management and making his mark where water resources were the most abundant in the world. He chose to return to China and grow with this newly established republic, although he had a foreboding that things would go awry.and it did. Forty-four years had already passed. Being an intellectual with a Hong Kong background, coupled with his guileless and artless character, Shum shun was victimised in successive waves of political movements. After enduring all these hardships, he finally found the golden days of his life at fifty, when he became the director of the guangxi hydraulic design institute, despite his flat refusal to join the communist party.now at 72, Shum Shun has all sorts of medicine, except the one called the " regret potion " . He believes that man should go forward and should not regret anything once a choice has been made; similarly, if he had been less adamant and dauntless, there would not have been so many irreparable losses in his life. No single person should be blamed for the disaster brought by the cultural revolution. It was the result of feudalism over thousands of years that fuelled personal worship and a theocratic society. The lesson we have learned from these ten traumatic years is that democracy should be developed step by step. This should be done in order to avoid the building up of anarchism.
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