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A Leaf In The Bitter Wind: A Memoir Thomas Paine How to outsmart riskRisk hasOne of the best ways to understand history is through eye witness accounts. Ting Xing Yes riveting first book, A Leaf in the Bitter Wind , is a memoir of growing up in Maoist China. It was an astonishing coming of age through the turbulent years of the Cultural Revolution (1966 1974). In the wave of revolutionary fervour, peasants neglected their crops, exacerbating the widespread hunger. While Ting Xing was a young girl in Shanghai, her fathers