Participants began sending Li videos so that he could post them on their behalf. “That was the dividing line when my old life ended and my new life began,” Li says. A Patriotic YouthHis old life began in 1992 in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui. Li grew up in a privileged family, with both his parents working as art professors in the metropolis of Fuyang. I knew nothing of how the population at large lived, the farmers and the workers.”