By Ping Fu
Born at the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution, Ping Fu used to be separated from her relations on the age of 8. She grew up battling starvation and humiliation and protective her more youthful sister from the kids in Mao’s crimson shield. At twenty-five, she chanced on her approach to the us; her in simple terms assets have been $80 and some words of English.
Yet Ping continued, and the hard-won classes of her adolescence guided her to good fortune in her new place of birth. Aided through her well-honed survival instincts, a number of reliable associates, and the kindness of strangers, she grew into a person she by no means proposal she’d be—a robust, self reliant, entrepreneurial leader.
“She tells her tale with intelligence, verve and a candor that's frequently heart-rending.”
—The Wall road Journal
“This well-written story of braveness, compassion, and undaunted interest unearths the lifetime of a real hero.”
—Booklist (starred review)
“Her luck on the American Dream is a true triumph.”
—The long island submit
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Extra info for Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds
I introduced lots disgrace for your identify, and all you probably did in go back was once bathe me with kindness. i will by no means pay off you to your generosity. ” Fong gave me his signature delicate, shy smile. “I continuously desired to defend you, Ping. I in simple terms want that i'll have performed more,” he acknowledged easily, dipping his head towards the earth. I questioned if lifestyles were variety to him because the Cultural Revolution. i needed fervently that it had. — During the reunion journey, i used to be struck via realizations. First, and such a lot relocating, used to be the switch in my frame of mind from no one to a person. again then, I had feared even being pleasant with Li, on account that my black blood might taint her and definitely reason hassle for her. Now everybody, together with those that had avoided me, desired to go along with me simply because they inspiration I had an awesome existence. They appeared surely satisfied for my luck in the US. Their recognition and admiration healed a few of my enduring wounds. i discovered the final clinging bits of bitterness fall clear of my youth armor, leaving me much more compassionate and susceptible than I’d been prior to. moment, i used to be struck through how even more American I felt than chinese language while i used to be with them. evidently, in the US I frequently suppose the facility of my chinese language roots. I nonetheless communicate with a mild accessory, costume with a chinese language aptitude, and cook dinner chinese language meals at domestic, and, most crucial, have a chinese language state of mind approximately shared accountability, humility, and the typical solid. yet on the reunion, surrounded virtually solely by way of those who had by no means left China, I felt dramatically American by way of comparability. i spotted that my former classmates talked with their mouths complete and reached for foodstuff from the typical plates with their chopsticks instead of utilizing a serving spoon. They ordered the waitress round with out a trace of politeness, that is regular in China—but given my a long time of waitressing within the usa, I felt green with envy in their impolite habit. I additionally spotted that they have been uninhibited in discussing their inner most affairs, while i used to be extra reserved. at times, I couldn’t even locate the proper chinese language phrases to precise myself; it was once more uncomplicated for me to explain many reports and revelations in English. within the twenty-five years that I had lived within the usa, i really had develop into American in my angle towards own freedom and the ability of person expression. I had loved excellent possibilities, been given the alternative to review the place and whilst i wished, and stubbornly pursued my very own direction in schooling, marriage, relations, and entrepreneurship. My chinese language opposite numbers had by no means been given such possibilities or had such wealthy studies. I observed how tough it used to be for them to visualize what number suggestions we've got in the United States. Even our skill to freely flow from one urban to a different used to be now not an idea they can understand. while the 2008 loan problem and inventory industry crash pulled the U. S. financial system right into a downward spiral, I meditated what else—other than operating a winning midsized know-how corporation that employed in the community and taken production again to the United States—I may well do for my kingdom.