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search [edit] Ping Fu Controversy[edit] SummaryPing Fu is a Chinese American
business woman, currently resides in the United States. She is the co-
founder and CEO of Geomagic, a 3D software company. Her memoir "Bend, Not
Break - A Life in Two Worlds" described her journey from China's Cultural
Revolution to a high tech CEO in America. However, upon the memoir
publication, a major controversy erupted over the author's depiction of her
life in China during Cultural Revolution. This article is an attempt at
documenting the major events happened surrounding the controversy.
[edit] TimelineDecember 31, 2012, Penguin Profolio published Ping Fu -
memoir Bend, Not Break.
Jan. 22, 2013, Tina Brown went on NPR to recommend "Bend, Not Break".[1]
Jan. 22, 2013, The book received its first one-star review on amazon.com
from reader "lin".[2]. The review has since been truncated by Amazon due to
length limit. Original review can be found in this doc I don't believe her
story
Jan. 23, 2013, Forbes published its interview with Ping Fu on-line. Under
the title "One Woman's Journey from Chinese Labor Camp to Top American Tech
Entrepreneur" [3]
Jan. 25, 2013, Forbes article was translated into Chinese and published on
Forbes China website. [4]
Jan. 29, 2013, Fang Zhouzi published his first installment of questions
against Ping Fu's memoir on his Chinese microblog.[5] Fang simply pointed
out the inconsistency and unlikelihood of many major events to actually
happen. He didn't ask anyone other than Ping Fu herself to do anything.
Within 24 hours after Fang Zhou Zi's post, over fifty ethnic Chinese
spontaneously came to amazon.com and provided one-star reviews. The book's
rating went from 4.5 out of 5 stars to 2 out of 5 stars during that period
of time.
Jan. 28, 2013, Ping Fu explained on her twitter account that "the Forbes
article has some inaccuracies, media does not let me review before...". [6]
Jan. 31, 2013, Forbes changed the title of its Jan 23rd article to "One
Woman's Journey from China's Cultural Revolution to Top American Tech
Entrepreneur", and also published a follow up "'Bend, Not Break' Author Ping
Fu Responds To Backlash"[7]
Forbes article unveiled more questions than it attempted to answer. More one
-star reviews kept coming, the book's rating continued to plumet on amazon.
com.
Feb. 1, 2013, Professor Erica Brindley started a discussion thread on Amazon
book review page of 'Bend, Not Break', with the title "Do not bomb this
book if you have not read it! I am a professor of Chinese history and
philosophy (PhD from Princeton) and I vouch that her story is a true
reflection of what happened to some people in China during the Cultural
Revolution."[8], calling the reviewers "Chinese Nationalists". She was soon
found out by information on-line that she is the sister-in-law of Meimei Fox
, 'Bend, Not Break' co-author, and her specialty in Chinese history was
limited to "early China (500 BC to 200 AD)"[9], far removed from Cultural
Revolution time period.
Feb. 1, 2013, Fu published two blog posts on huffingtonpost.com: "Sad, But
Not Broken"[10] and "Clarifying the Facts in Bend, Not Break"[11]. She
called the negative reviews "the smear campaign...dark side of China."
Feb. 2, 2013, "Bend, Not Break" made it to #24 for Hardcover-Nonfiction
category and #32 for Combined Print and E-book category of Feb. 10, 2013 New
York Times "extended" Best Seller list, which reflected sales ending Jan.
26, 2013[12]. "Bend, Not Break" didn't make it to the next issue (Feb. 17,
2013) New York Times Best Seller list, which reflected sales ending Feb. 2,
2013.
Feb. 4, 2013, The Guardian Beijing & New York published "Chinese cast doubt
over executive's rags to riches tale". [13]
Feb. 4, 2013, Tina Brown's Dailybeast.com published "Ping Fu Defends ‘Bend,
Not Break’ Memoir Against Online Chinese Attack" to defend Ping Fu. [14]
Feb. 5, 2013, UK Telegraph published "Doubts over Chinese author lauded by
Michelle Obama". [15]
Feb. 11, 2013, Sir Harold Evans published "The Persecution of Ping Fu". [16].
Feb. 13, 2013, The Guardian followed up with another article with more in-
depth investigation on Ping Fu's story. "Ping Fu's childhood tales of China'
s cultural revolution spark controversy". [17]. In the Guardian article Ping
Fu admitted "she had been wrong to call the criticism a smear campaign,
adding she had realised the people she thought were attacking her were
telling their own stories of the cultural revolution."
Feb. 14, 2013, Influential short-seller Citron Research published report
warning bubble in 3D printers. Identified Ping Fu as 3D printing industry's
spokesperson and Sir Evans' article. [18] DDD stock started sliding at the
rate of 5%/day[19]
1.^ http://www.npr.org/2013/01/22/169355935/tina-browns-must-reads-hidden-lives
2.^ http://www.amazon.com/review/R22LIB1HMUDXPB/ref=cm_cr_pr_viewpnt#R22LIB1HMUDXPB
3.^ http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2013/01/23/one-womans-journey-from-chinese-labor-camp-to-top-american-tech-entrepreneur/
4.^ http://www.forbeschina.com/news/news.php?id=22981&page=1
5.^ http://fangzhouzi.blog.hexun.com/82986007_d.html
6.^ https://twitter.com/pfugeomagic/status/295992561808576512
7.^ http://www.forbes.com/sites/jennagoudreau/2013/01/31/bend-not-break-author-ping-fu-responds-to-backlash/
8.^ http://www.amazon.com/professor-philosophy-Princeton-reflection-Revolution-/forum/Fx1M49LYP8YZYQ4/TxN4C295ZFQO4X/1/ref=cm_cd_fp_ef_tft_tp?_encoding=UTF8&asin=1591845521
9.^ http://history.psu.edu/directory/efb12
10.^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ping-fu/sad-but-not-broken_b_2603466.html
11.^ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ping-fu/clarifying-the-facts-in-bend-not-break_b_2603405.html
12.^ http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/2013-02-10/combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction/list.html
13.^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/04/ping-fu-book-chinese-critics
14.^ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/04/ping-fu-defends-bend-not-break-memoir-against-online-chinese-attack.html
15.^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/9849838/Doubts-over-Chinese-author-lauded-by-Michelle-Obama.html
16.^ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/02/11/the-persecution-of-ping-fu.html
17.^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/feb/13/ping-fu-controversy-china-cultural-revolution
18.^ http://www.citronresearch.com/citron-reports-on-ddd/
19.^ http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/15/us-3dprinters-stocks-idUSBRE91E01S20130215 |
