Above of the "Ladders to Heaven"-A Modern Chinese Version of the Promethean Myth (天梯之上)

Above of the "Ladders to Heaven" tells the moving story of Li Guilin and Lu Jianfen, a couple and substitute teachers in Liang Shan, China. They have gone through unimaginable distress through their long career to educate village children isolated from the world by high mountains: shockinlgy low salary, poor living condition, and even occasional real danger. They are the Prometheus in Chinese countryside, sacrificing their whole youth for the sake of the dissemination of knowledge among those who are in the most desperate need of it. This book told about the true story of the couple Guilin Lee and Jianfen Lu, the husband and wife were all once substitute teachers. They set up a primary school in the dangerous and difficult high mountains where they were paid low and lived a poor life -the Erpingcun Primary School in Wushidaqiao Township, Ganluo County, Liangshan Yi Nationality Autonomous Region.