Ding Shu (1944- ), originally from Dongtai, Jiangsu Province, is a writer. Born in 1944 in Hechuan, Sichuan Province, Ding moved with his family to Shanghai after the war against Japan and was admitted to Tsinghua University in 1962. During the Cultural Revolution, Ding was sent down to work at the Danyang Lake Farm in Anhui Province. In 1970, he went to Liaoning Province to work at a research institute; in 1979 he was admitted to the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and in the following year went to the United States to study at the City University of New York. In 1990, he began teaching at the Normandale Community College, Missouri, and retired in 2016. In his spare time, he engages in research on contemporary Chinese history, and is the author of Man-made Disasters: The Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine, and Open Conspiracy: The Complete Story of the Anti-Rightist Campaign.
