Baiping LiangBaiping 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, nd 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. Read More Read Less