In China, the Dream of Outrunning Time

In China, the dream of outrunning time

The search for the elixir of life, embraced with gusto in recent years by American tech billionaires like Peter Thiel, has been under way in China for more than two millenniums.

In China, the Dream of Outrunning Time

SHENZHEN, China -- When a Chinese state television microphone recently caught China's top leader, Xi Jinping, and President Vladimir Putin of Russia musing about the possibility of living to 150 and perhaps even forever, many eyebrows were raised.