[1] In 2006 she published a memoir, Feather in the Storm: A Childhood Lost in Chaos (Pantheon, Random House) telling her story of growing up in China in a "black" (rightist) family during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution.
The book has been translated into German, French, Thai, Polish, Czech, Finnish, Chinese, Danish, and Hungarian.
The book is a counterpart to the memoir written by her father, the well known translator and writer Wu Ningkun, who was denounced as an ultra-rightist during the late '50s.
[citation needed] Emily Wu is also a featured subject, together with Shi Tianjian and Yan Yunxiang, in Chris Billing's 2005 documentary Up to the Mountain, Down to the Village.
From 1968 onwards more than 17 million high school students and young adults were sent "up to the mountain, down to the village" (上山下乡 shang shan, xia xiang) to "learn from the peasants."