He told me that many Chinese needed psychological help. “People should spend more time looking inside themselves,” he said. “A person and history are the same—by that, I mean that a personal history is enormous. An individual can be even more complicated than a society. But there isn’t any time for the Chinese to examine themselves like that.
There is some effort to say that the author travels around China talking with the common people. In this case the common person is a Chinese movie star! He spends a lot of time on the creation of that film and the people involved.
