From an industrial city in northern China to the international stage, this is the remarkable story of one boy’s small, determined steps that become a journey of a thousand miles.
Lang Lang’s family sacrificed almost everything for their belief in his talent, and his father was willing to go to any lengths to make his son a star. Now he has emerged as one of the greatest pianists of our time. Yet despite his international fame, few in the West know of the heart-wrenching path he took from his early childhood when hours of practice came before play, to his difficult years in Beijing, to his brilliant success today.
In Journey of a Thousand Miles Lang Lang opens a door to China at a time when the world’s attention is on Beijing. He also fives a startlingly honest and personal insight into the discipline, skill and ceaseless hard work needed to becomes ‘Number One’.