Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds

Ping Fu, Meimei Fox

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Portfolio, 2012

1591845521 / 9781591845522

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288 pages. dj worn. Ex-library?Bamboo is flexible, bending with the wind but never breaking, capable of ada pting to any circumstance. It suggests resilience, meaning that we have the abil ity to bounce back even from the most difficult times. . . . Your ability to thr ive depends, in the end, on your attitude to your life circumstances. Take every thing in stride with grace, putting forth energy when it is needed, yet always s taying 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 deporte d with barely enough money for a plane ticket to a bewildering new land. To star t all over, without family or friends, as a maid, waitress, and student. Ping F u 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 a dvise the president of the United States. It sounds too unbelievable for fictio n, 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. Sh e 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 Unite d 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 lesson s of her childhood guided her to success in her new homeland. Aided by her well.…

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Titolo
Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds
Autore
Ping Fu, Meimei Fox
Editore
Portfolio
Anno di pubblicazione
2012
Condizione
Good
Sovraccoperta
sovraccoperta
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
1591845521
ISBN 13
9781591845522
Dimensioni
23.6cm x 16.3cm
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