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In her moving CreativeMornings talk, Ping Fu, author of Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds, tells her incredible story of surviving the Chinese “Cultural Revolution” – Chairman Mao’s violent enforcement of communism, including the persecution of intellectuals – to become a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur.
Sir Harold Evans interviews entrepreneur and former political prisoner Ping Fu, author of the harrowing and heartening memoir Bend, Not Break: A Life in Two Worlds, who tells her story of surviving the Chinese cultural revolution, including grueling child labor and gang rape, to become a pioneering Silicon Valley software programmer.