To understand Gary Locke’s origin story one has to venture into a tiny village called Jilong, located in the Guangdong province of China. “It’s a village about two miles from a city of about three million people,” said Locke, yet it’s like going back into the late 1800s. There’s a village outhouse and the cooking is done using wood kindling and coal briquettes.It is here that Locke’s grandfather and father hail from, and it is a striking contrast to his Pacific Northwest upbringing, an American life filled with education and promise that would lead back to China where he represented...