The usual caveats about memoir apply, but Ping Fu tells of an extraordinary life growing up in China's Cultural Revolution, then becoming a successful computer scientist and entrepreneur in America. Her business success is not a particularly interesting part of the book -- the work her company do...
After a horrific childhood in China filled with violence and suffering, Ping Fu arrives in the US with no money, knowing just three phrases of English. For her to have prospered would have been amazing. But, not only did she prosper, she was involved in helping to create some of the computer te...