Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds

By: Ping Fu

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Born on the eve of China's Cultural Revolution, Ping Fu 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 and a few phrases of English. 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 reshaped the world, from personalizing prosthetic limbs to repairing NASA spaceships. Bend, Not Break is both a tribute to one woman's courage in the face of cruelty and a valuable lesson on the power of resilience. ISBN:9781591846819

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Weight 268 g
Dimensions 213 × 137 × 20 mm
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ISBN 9781591846819