The Call of the Steppe - Liang, Baiping
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Born of the windswept Eurasian steppe, this memoir traces a journey from exile to resilience, from survival to discovery. As a teenager cast into drifting snow and endless grasslands, Baiping Liang found strength in the mercy of Mongol elders, the wisdom of a lama brother, and the spark of Jack London's words read by lamplight in a lonely yurt. Those sparks carried him across continents and through hardship, until he emerged in the world of high technology as a senior software engineer. At once half-myth and half-history, The Call of the Steppe is a story of endurance, hope, and learning. It…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Born of the windswept Eurasian steppe, this memoir traces a journey from exile to resilience, from survival to discovery. As a teenager cast into drifting snow and endless grasslands, Baiping Liang found strength in the mercy of Mongol elders, the wisdom of a lama brother, and the spark of Jack London's words read by lamplight in a lonely yurt. Those sparks carried him across continents and through hardship, until he emerged in the world of high technology as a senior software engineer. At once half-myth and half-history, The Call of the Steppe is a story of endurance, hope, and learning. It testifies that even in the harshest winters of life, the flame of courage can endure-and light the way for future generations. Memoir of resilience and survival From the Mongolian steppe to high technology Blending myth, memory, and history A legacy of courage and hope
Autorenporträt
Baiping Liang is a software engineer and writer, originally from Beijing, China, and now living in the United States. He graduated from the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences with a focus on English news reporting and writing, and later earned two master's degrees from the University of Denver-one in international economics and another in computer science and mathematics.A lifelong reader of literature, history, and a world traveler, Baiping has also practiced martial arts since childhood. At just sixteen, during the brutal decade of China's Cultural Revolution, he was forced to leave home and was sent to the vast steppe of Inner Mongolia-the eastern edge of the Eurasian grasslands. There, he grew up alone, relying on hope, courage, and resilience, guided by the words of Jack London, Hemingway, and Ivan Turgenev. Under the dim glow of a tallow lamp in a lonely yurt, he devoured the treasured books given to him by his librarian mother, finding solace through searing summers and bitter winters.Years later, following his dreams, Baiping crossed the Pacific and immersed himself in the technology revolution. Now retired, he has begun piecing together his fragmented teenage years-when a city boy was remade into a tough Mongol on the steppe. He hopes his story will be remembered, along with the shaggy companions who once shared his life under the endless grassland sky.