Zhang Linghe, born Zhang Jiawei, grew up in Wuxi, a city in Jiangsu Province in eastern China. It’s not exactly a place famous for producing global entertainment stars. As an only child, and from what he's said in interviews, he was a pretty serious kid. Science kid. He wanted to be a scientist when he grew up and contribute to the country. That's the kind of thing that sounds very polished when you say it in an interview, but looking at his actual academic record, you can tell it was real...