This book is a comprehensive introduction of the legendary life of Lin Yifu, right from his beginning as a student of military school, to the chief economist of the World Bank. How did he get first acquainted with economics? How did he become the last disciple of the Nobel winner Theodore Schultz? How was his lifelong compassion towards peasants aroused after his return to China, and making himself an authority of Chinese economy? You will get satisfactory answers of all these questions from this brilliantly written biography.