Early Life, Family and Training Ouyang Chun arrives in the world in 1974, born in Beijing. His early years, however, unfold far from the capital. He is raised in Xi’an, a city shaped by the presence of his father and other professors sent there to the Xi’an University of Technology. This domestic environment provides the backdrop for a childhood spent in the shadow of academic rigor, even as his own path begins to diverge from the tra…