Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds

✍ Scribed by Fu, Ping

• Book ID: 107486285
• Publisher: Penguin Group US
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 4 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781101608197

✦ Synopsis

''Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of adapting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the ability to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thrive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take everything in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always staying calm inwardly.''
Ping Fu's ''Shanghai Papa''

Ping Fu knows what it's like to be a child soldier, a factory worker, and a political prisoner. To be beaten and raped for the crime of being born into a well-educated family. To be deported with barely enough money for a plane ticket to a bewildering new land. To start all over, without family or friends, as a maid, waitress, and student.

Ping Fu also knows what it's like to be a pioneering software programmer, an innovator, a CEO, and Inc. magazine's Entrepreneur of the Year. To be a friend and mentor to...