Fu Ping (傅苹, born 1958) has quite a life as of today. She was separated from her parents and sent to a labor camp at age 8, where she was gang raped at age 10 before she was released after another 8 years. Her undergraduate thesis made her an international acclaimed researcher and landed her in jail, for what was revealed by her study: killing of infants under the Chinese government's family planning project.
At age 25, and with no money at all, Fu started her life in the US in 1983, attending a range of schools, including University of New Mexico, University of San Diego, UCSD, UIUC. On her way, she started from a cleaning lady and waitress to support herself, to a member on the National Advisory Council on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, along colleagues such as Yahoo's Jerry Yang.
Update: via Forbes website readers comments by njydj
China Story on Ping Fu is full of lies. I know Ping Fu and her family personally as we all grew up together in Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Aerospace (NUAA).
- She grew up in Shanghai until 1966…Nope, she grew up in Nanjing.
- She was sent to children labor camp for 10 yrs when she was eight-year old from 1966. Ask her when and where about of such camp or any supporting document for it! She was among us who stayed on University campus. Young children such as her sister and myself were boarding at University kindergarten while parents sent away somewhere for “re-education”. Did she bring her four year-old sister to children labor camp?
She said she was gang raped while trying to protect her four-year old little sister. I never heard of this although we grew up together.
- She graduated from Suzhou university in either English or Chinese, at different occasions she told different stories. In fact she did not attend Suzhou Univ. She went to Nanjing Normal College. [Noted by The Seagull: Jiangsu Normal College changes its name to Suzhou University in 1982] How could she graduate with English major after 4 years of college but only knew three English words? Do you believe it? If anyone spent any time learning English back then, he/she must have learned “Long Live Chairman Mao”!
- She was exiled by Chinese Government to the US because of her thesis on one child policy…NO, NO, NO. She came to the US through family ties. Her uncle (father’s brother) lived in the US and sponsored her.
Her father and my father worked together at the University since the '50s until they retired (both passed away). It is a shame seeing how she depicted the campus life where she grew up.
Ping Fu was also a “Red Guard” herself!
Forbes, wake up. Go to NUAA to hear the true story about Ping Fu!
