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| birth_date = 1952
| birth_place = [[Shanghai]], [[China]]
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| occupation = Writer
| genre = Autobiography, Young Adult fiction
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'''Ting-Xing Ye''' (born 1952) is a [[Chinese people|Chinese]]-[[Canadians|Canadian]] author of young adult novels, as well as ''[[Leaf In A Bitter Wind]]'', a best-selling autobiographical account of her life in Maoist China.

==Biography==
Ye was born in [[Shanghai]], [[China]], in 1952, the fourth of five children. Her parents were a factory owner and his wife. Ye's parents died when she was a small child, leaving Ye and her four siblings in the care of her Great-Aunt. During the [[Cultural Revolution]], Ye and her family were condemned as having "bad blood" and persecuted by the [[Communist]] regime, because their father had been a boss in a factory. At sixteen, like millions of other young Chinese men and women, Ye was exiled to a [[prison]] farm to "learn from the peasants" and be "reformed" by hard labor. On the farm, Ye was persecuted and suffered [[torture]] at the hands of her leaders.

Ye spent six years laboring on the prison farm, 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]]. During that time she met her future husband, Canadian writer and educator [[William E. Bell (author)|William E. Bell]] who taught English at the Foreign Affairs College in [[Beijing]]. Ye came to [[Canada]] in 1987. She published her [[autobiography]], detailing her life in Mao's China, in 1997. She published her first picture book in 1998. Ye also writes Young Adult fiction and non-fiction.

==Selected works==
* ''[[Leaf In A Bitter Wind]]'', autobiographical 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

==See also==
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* [[Scar literature]]
* [[Cultural Revolution]]
* [[Jung Chang]]

== External links ==
* {{official website |orillia.org/williambell}} (Ting-Xing Ye and William Bell)
* {{LCAuth|n97101758|Ting-xing Ye|4|ue}}

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