Well, my family name is Táng; my mother’s family name is Lǐ. There’s a famous philosopher called Lǐ Ěr, allegedly the author of the Tao Te Ching. The Taoist tradition thus started with that text. When I was a child, I had a heart condition that made it impossible for me to get too angry or too happy—if my heart rate rose above a certain point, I would faint and wake up in the ICU. That condition wasn’t cured until I finally had surgery at age twelve.