Bend, Not Break Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Ping Fu & MeiMei Fo
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
284

Bend, Not Break by Ping Fu & MeiMei Fo Book Summary

“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 some of the best-known names in tech­nology. To build some of the coolest new products in the world. To give speeches that inspire huge crowds. To meet and advise the president of the United States.

It sounds too unbelievable for fiction, but this is the true story of a life in two worlds.

Born on the eve of China’s Cultural Revolution, Ping was separated from her family at the age of eight. She grew up fighting hunger and humiliation and shielding her younger sister from the teenagers in Mao’s Red Guard. At twenty-five, she found her way to the United States; her only resources were $80 in traveler’s checks and three phrases of English: thank you, hello, and help.

Yet Ping persevered, and the hard-won lessons of her childhood guided her to success in her new home­land. Aided by her well-honed survival instincts, a few good friends, and the kindness of strangers, she grew into someone she never thought she’d be—a strong, independent, entrepreneurial leader. A love of problem solving led her to computer science, and Ping became part of the team that created NCSA Mosaic, which became Netscape, the Web browser that forever changed how we access information. She then started a company, Geomagic, that has literally reshaped the world, from personalizing prosthetic limbs to repair­ing NASA spaceships.

Bend, Not Break depicts a journey from imprisonment to freedom, and from the dogmatic anticapitalism of Mao’s China to the high-stakes, take-no-prisoners world of technology start-ups in the United States. It is a tribute to one woman’s courage in the face of cruelty and a valuable lesson on the enduring power of resilience.

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Book Name Bend, Not Break
Genre Asian History
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Language English
E-Book Size 4.55 MB

Bend, Not Break (Ping Fu & MeiMei Fo) Book Reviews 2024

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Excellent and very touching story. This book brought tears to my eyes, I love the title and I am in awe of Ping's accomplishments. Her life is the epitome of "in the midst of adversity there's opportunity". I'm so glad that I had the opportunity to read her story.

Amazing Story, Amazing Woman. A must-read, highly recommended. There is not a dull moment in this book, could not put it down.

Full of fabrication. This bamboo lady is In credible. Fabricate like everyone is a fool.

Full of lies. Ping Fu is a shameless liar who fabricated stories of suffering during the cultural revolution to fool Americans who do not know China or Chinese history. Ping Fu wrote another book in Chinese for a different audience. In her Chinese book, she trashed Americans, calling her Jewish American employer fat and cruel, saying she learned that in the US one needs to dishonest to succeed.

Bend, Not Break. I thoroughly enjoyed this book and the historical perspective of two distinct cultures. Ping is an inspiration to us all of how we should all continue to persevere through both adversity and challenges to reach our goals.

Bend Not Break. Incredible life's journey of one amazingly resilience woman! Bravo Ping:)

Something I can relate to. This is a great read. I can't relate to the treatment in 202, but the strength of living through such adversity and pushing on is something that is incredibly inspirational. The ups and downs of her life and career were told so well and I never thought of this as an autobiography, just a great book. Thanks for being pushed to write it!!

Ping Ping. What a good book! So glad I read its review in the Christian Science Monitor. I have learned so much about the Cultural Revolution in China, China itself and Chinese people and have gained better hope for the world's future! It has helped me understand my Chinese American friends who lived through this revolution much better. In it, I could read the answers to many questions I could not ask for fear of offending. I think we are lucky in America to have Ping Fu as a citizen; she has helped the United States!

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Summary of Bend, Not Break by Ping Fu & MeiMei Fo

The Bend, Not Break book written by Ping Fu & MeiMei Fo was published on 31 December 2012, Monday in the Asian History category. A total of 284 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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