- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Michael Joseph (Feb 28 1997)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0718141946
- ISBN-13: 978-0718141943
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 14.2 x 3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 249 g
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After Adeline's mother died, her affluent father remarried a French-Chinese teenager, Niang, and the family moved to Shanghai where they lived in a large house in the middle of the French Concession. During this time, the 1930s, when everything western in treaty ports such as Shanghai was deemed superior to anything Chinese, Niang was the ultimate status symbol and Adeline's father was besotted. But while Niang gave her own two children beautiful clothes and lovely presents, she treated her five stepchildren harshly and with disdain. Adeline in particular was considered inferior and insignificant and she was bullied and beaten by her siblings. When the family moved to Hong Kong in 1949, Adeline was banished to a boarding school from which she was rarely allowed home. Set against a background of changing political times and the collision of East and West, this text describes how the complexities of family relationships were to come to a head at her father's and Niang's deaths. It also tells of how Adeline survived the traumas of her childhood to make a successful career for herself.
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Must read, Dec 27 2008
By T. Pyburn - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Falling Leaves (Paperback)
This was a great memoir. It left me feeling angry at how some people treat children or other people for that matter! I'm thankful to live in a society that recognizes the value of women. Once again it shows that human nature wants approval from parents in all circumstances. This is a heart wrenching story that had some redeeming moments but the are few & far between.The book is well written and believable. A must read.
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Triumph Over Evil, Jan 23 2007
By Kristin M. Scott "kmaye" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Falling Leaves (Paperback)
This was a story of triumph of a young chinese girl, Adeline Yen Mah, swallowed whole by the fate that left her with the cruelest face of humankind...her stepmother, Niang Yen. As a rose cannot grow without sun, light, and earth, nor could this girl have survived life w/out the endearing love from her Aunt Baba who encouraged and nurtured her despite inflictions from the Adeline's stepmother and father in doing so.
After reading this book I feel compelled to hug Adeline Yan Mah and tell her what a wonderful person she is.
3.0 out of 5 stars
Enjoyable, Jan 6 2011
By Camille Hennessy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Falling Leaves (Paperback)
After reading Mah's first book, I was eager to get my hands on this next memoir of her adult life. I was dissapointed at first though, because she does a very extensive review of her childhood, most of which was a summary of her first book. You don't actually have to read Chinese Cinderella before reading Falling Leaves. There were few details in the beginnging of this book that were added that weren't seen in the first. However, about two thirds of the way through the book, Mah finally talked strictly about her adult live, which included moving to California, and the ever-increasing problems with her family. As I learned about the further heart-breaks and abuse she still faced from her parents and siblings, even as an adult, I found myself hurting along with her. Just as when reading the first book, I was very moved. A slow start, but a strong finish for Falling Leaves.
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