Bend, Not Break : A Life in Two Worlds (Hardcover)

from InsightsGal

I received this book as part of the Early Reviewers program and can say with certainty that it is my favorite Early Reviewer book thus far! It's an enjoyable, intense, enlightening, and humble story spanning from China's Cultural Revolution to entrepreneurship. Ping Fu's personal story is pretty ...

from xmaystarx

Ping Fu has had an incredible and challenging life and it is amazing what she has accomplished despite it all. This book tells Ping's story from being born in China and being subjected to abuse during the cultural revolution to her exile to the United States and becoming a highly successful entre...

from jnwelch

I'm really, really glad I read Bend Not Break by Ping Fu. Not because it's wonderfully written. The prose is pretty plain vanilla. She wrote this memoir with a Huffington Post journalist named Mei Mei Fox, and there's definitely a journalistic flavor to it. Some will be put off a bit, I imagine, ...

from datrappert

Autobiographies by Chinese who lived (or, more likely, suffered) through the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) are a genre to themselves. As an American who was fortunate enough to live in China from 1989 to 1992, I encountered many Chinese who had been persecuted during this time of insanity that,...

from maggie1944

Ping Fu wrote a brief memoir (276 pages) of her "life in two worlds" in part to explain and claim her identifying both with the China of her birth, and the U.S.A. of her choice. Her life is quite hard to believe and yet I think I do believe it. Bend, Not Break is her book. "Bamboo is flexible, be...