A real life story written by a begger from Taiwan

An UntoldCityLife.com’s Book review by Xiao Loong Zi

While I am on leave or away from the office, I usually go to do some readings in bookstore. After collecting the legal documents from my solicitor in KL today, I dropped by Suria KLCC and visited Kinokuniya. One of the most amazing things that I did today - I bought a Mandarin book! Ever since when I started buying Mandarin books after my high school? I don’t really like to read Mandarin books because most of it are very thick-in-size and written in the vertical format. I am used to the horizontal format reading like the English books. However this time, it’s out of my norm that I paid my true respect to Author Lai Dong Jin for his book “A Boy of Begger Gang” <<Qigaijianjai>> (translated from Mandarin). While reading some part of the book, my eyes were red with tears and I nearly cried inside the bookshop due to such truly touching realistic story in human life. As a matter of fact, when this book was launched in Taiwan, it made more than 10,000 people cried. Today, more than 800,000 copies were sold and even the President Cheng Shui Bian read about it!


Intro of the Author - Lai Dong Jin (some translated from Mandarin)

He received the Youth’s Top 10 Accomplishments Award in 1999 in Taiwan. Currently working as a factory manager cum production manager for a Chinese and American company. He was born in a begger family, he father was a blind beggar, both of his mother and big brother were born with very low intelligence syndromes. He had a family size of 14 which the entire family begging for living. When he started walking since two years old, he had already followed his sister to beg around for foods. Before 10 years old, his family had had no permanent location to stay but wondering everywhere to find places like Graveyard to sleep. Unlike us that we can spend expensive dinners at Shangri La Hotel, his family can’t even have had 3 meals a day. At worse, his father sold her very close loving sister for prostitution at the age of 13 without his agreement to sustain the family and his education.

Despite of all such unfortunate events in life, he did not give up of his faith and destiny. As the eldest son in the family, he took the responsibilities to take care of the entire family. He studied very hard. He earned numerous awards and prizes. Today, he is married and with few kids. He is considered successful that he can and able to settle down and taking care of the living of his family.

Extra info: This book was firstly published in 2000 and reprinted again in 2007.

He has had experienced the most extreme hardship, humiliation, bit and unfortunate events in life. As a result, he has the most beautiful and fruitful life today.

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