Although his father started a business, his uncles who lost their jobs could not even afford to make $1.50 family Mahjong bets.
[5] Qiu won the gold medal in the national Chemistry Olympiad and received a rare full scholarship in 2016.
Qiu switched his major from chemistry to sociology in his second year and joined the Marxist club and became its president.
He said the authorities "slapped him until blood streamed from his nose, and they jammed headphones into his ears and played hours of propaganda at full volume.
The police also made him bend over a table naked and spread his buttocks, joking darkly that they would teach him how to insert a listening device.