Ting-xing Ye, author of the best-selling memoir,
A Leaf in the
Bitter Wind, was born in Shanghai, China, in 1952, the fourth
of five children born to a factory owner and his wife. At sixteen
she was “sent down” to a prison farm during the Cultural
Revolution, spending six years there before being admitted to
Beijing University. She took a degree in English Literature, then
began a seven year career as English interpreter for the national
government in Shanghai. Ye came to Canada in 1987. She has been a
child-care worker, bank clerk, and secretary. She published her
first picture book in 1998. She also writes Young Adult fiction and
non-fiction.
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bibliography
A Leaf In
The Bitter Wind, a memoir,
1997
Three Monks,
No Water, illustrated by
Harvey Chan, 1997
Weighing The
Elephant, illustrated by
Suzanne Langlois, 1998
Share The
Sky, illustrated by
Suzanne Langlois, 1999
White
Lily, a chapter
book, 2000
Throwaway
Daughter, a Young Adult
novel, 2003
My Name is
Number Four, Young Adult
non-fiction, 2007
Mountain
Girl, River Girl, a Young Adult
novel, 2008
The Chinese
Thought of It, children's
non-fiction, 2009
"Permission to Work", Young Adult non-fiction narrative,
2010.
