In 2008, Zhong Xiaowei was diagnosed with HIV. Believing that his life was effectively over, he waited around to die. He was still waiting seven years later when another test found that he wasn’t infected with the virus after all. Zhong was born in 1963, the fourth of five siblings. When he was just seven years old, his father died of lung cancer, leaving his mother to support the family on the meager 28…