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Ying Chang Compestine (born March 8, 1963) is a Chinese American author, speaker, television host and chef. She has written over twenty-seven books including Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party (novel), based on her life growing up during the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and a middle grade novel, Morning Sun in Wuhan, set in Wuhan, China.

Biography

Ying Chang Compestine was born and raised in Wuhan, China.

Her family was considered "bourgeois," so the Red Guard took her family's belongings and her father was put in jail twice. Because of the family's difficulties, Compestine was sent to live with her grandparents.

Compestine earned a degree in English and American literature and taught English in China.

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She also worked as an interpreter for China's Bureau of Seismology.

Compestine graduated with a master's degree in Sociology from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 1990. She met her husband just before she finished graduate school.

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