'Heartbroken' author Ping Fu willing to apologise for inaccuracies in memoir
Ping Fu, chief strategy officer of 3D Systems in the US, blamed inaccuracies in her memoir on memory failures or editing errors. Photo: Screenshot via Reuters TV
By South China Morning Post
July 1
"In 2010, Fu told US media NPR that she witnessed Red Guards execute a teacher by having her quartered by four horses, simply to frighten the children into submission. After Fang raised sharp questions about the veracity of this story, Fu admitted that this that traumatic event might not have taken place, and that her "emotional memory" might not be accurate. NPR has since removed the interview from its website."
"Speaking to a Post reporter by telephone in late June, Fu conceded last week that some of the details in her book were not accurate. "There was no arrest or time in jail or prison for the Red Maple Society members. We did informing and confession."
"...Soochow University officials have shown journalists dozens of documents including Fu's full academic records, to prove that she never conducted research or wrote a thesis on female infanticide, nor was she ever punished or arrested for political essays in student publications."
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Ping Fu did not ever witness a teacher's death.
Nor did she ever be arrested due to political activities.
Nor did she ever write about a thesis on female infanticide.
She put as the opening in Bend, not Break that she was "quietly expelled" by Chinese government. Now we konw she had never done any deed as she claimed in the book that could possibly cause official expelling.
The book Bend, not Break lies from the first sentence, and the lie continues in the following chapters throughout the book.
It is just interesting for us to wonder what kind of editing errors can result in stories that never exited, or how bad a memory Ping Fu has to have to write a bio contradicting to her schoolmate's memories and Chinese readers' common sense.


贴主:张旺教授于2021_07_03 14:18:13编辑