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Born into poverty with nothing that marks him as special, Meng Jin Fu finishes a brutal opera apprenticeship at eighteen and starts at the very bottom of the theater world — a minor acrobat with no name to speak of. Set against the collapse of the Qing Dynasty and the chaos of the early Republic, his climb from forgettable newcomer to celebrated master of Peking opera becomes a story about what it takes to survive — and matter — when everything around you is falling apart.