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Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter

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If you are a kind of person how likes to read books that are depressing or you love to read on rainy days well this book is for you Yen Mah is a good author .If you love this book just as much as I have you should read other books made by Yen Mah.. Like Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society, Falling Leaves, A Thousand Piece of Gold, Watching the Tree.

Chinese Cinderella is a book that everyone should read because itï¿s very touching and once you start reading, it grabs your full attention and youï¿ll just go on and on reading and donï¿t want to stop. While reading this novel, it makes you feel like you are right there at the setting, youï¿re part of the story and you can see what is going on, the whole story just grabs you into the story. Chinese Cinderella is a biography that will make you cry, it is so good that I recommend it to you all.
Chinese Cinderella is a non-fiction, true story of an unwanted daughter by Adeline Yen Mah, a biography of Adeline Yen Mah. Itï¿s about her life as a child to an adult and all the heart-breaking and awful things she has been through.
Adeline Yen Mahï¿s mother died after giving birth to her and so Adelineï¿s family then considered her as bad luck. After the death of Adelineï¿s mother, Adelineï¿s father then got remarried and life got worse for Adeline. Adeline has six siblings, a big sister and three younger brothers whom Adelineï¿s mother gave birth to and after Adelineï¿s father got remarried, her stepmother gave birth to one boy and one girl. Adelineï¿s stepmother treated Adeline and her true siblings really cruelly where as Adelineï¿s half brother and half sister which the stepmother gave birth to, were thoroughly spoiled.
In this biography, Adeline has a pet duck, which is the only thing that Adeline really cares about in the whole entire world. However, he beloved duckling gets killed just because her father wanted to test the obedience of the dog.
Adeline is a smart girl, she earns prizes from school and tops a her classmates and wins class awards. However these things arenï¿t what she really wants, what she really wants is the understanding of her family.
Once again I recommend this biography to you, it is the best biography that Iï¿ve read so far. Also, when you start reading this biography, remember to have a handkerchief or a box of tissue with you, because it is very touching and sad that it makes you cry.

This book moved me I cried and laughed it's the kind of book you should read on a rainy day it made me look at my life and not to take for grant of what I have and not to be selfish and to be polite.

This is one the most amazing books I've ever read and probably ever will read, and I've truly read many books. Chinese Cinderella have a lot of fact and can teach you a thing or two or twenty about Chinese and Asian culture. But also give you a story that will make you cry, you'll learn about her struggle through the first years of her life. This is an unique "based on a true-story"-book and it's a very touching story and I recommed it to everyone!

This is a really wonderful book,in a way,to those who don;t believe in fairy tales,especially Cinderella,here's a really great book-a real-life autobiography.
In the 1930s,a girl named Jun-ling was born into an affluent family with an elder sister and three elder brothers.Unfortunately,her mother died within two weeks after conceiving her,and she was soon considered to be a jinx.And that was when her life changes.

The poor rich girl was detested by her own sister and her brothers,and even her stepmother,a snobbish,intelligent and French-Chinese beauty.She lived in a lifestyle practically the same as Cinderella.Though she wasn't forced to do housework or anything,she has no freedom of her own,no new clothes(when the family was super wealthy).She moved from schools to schools,cities to cities,and witnessed the deaths of her beloved grandparents.What life is this for a child who was only aged 5-15 at the time?

Her sister picked on her,her brothers tricked her into drinking their urine(yep,they mixed their urine with fruit punch and told her it was a reward for her as headgirl),her closest friend,a little duckling was bitten to death by the family's dog,a German Shephard.The little girl longed to tell someone how life was for her;her friends thought she came from a loving family(when her stepmother cared for her own children than her-slapped the girl,hoped for her death and all really horrible stuff.Seriously,is this what you call a life meant for a human?

Adeline writes in a short and simple way.She tells her tale-not any fairy tale,though she did find happiness in the end.She won numerous awards as a student,has a passion for education.But nobody has ever cared for her.Each time she received an award,nobody was there with her.Her presence was almost inexistence at home.Her father hardly cared for his daughter,he did not even know his daughter's name and date of birth.Can one believe this? Reality was tough,reality was harsh,but the girl accepted it-without a word of complain.She did not give up,and promised to do well at school to live a life better than that of her family's.She became well-known for her flair of writng,went to London to study medicine,and became a doctor soon afterwards.This is a heartwarming tale of a girl.A true Cinderella.With a real stepmother.With stepsiblings(her own siblings detested her,what more stepsiblings?).And fairy-godmothers/father(her aunt Baba,grandad,friends).An amazing and truly profilic book to read.

I have to admit when I was first introduced to this book I wanted to put it back down because it looked liked a children's book and I NEVER have liked getting involved with the melodrama of the teenage worlds. But once I started reading I could not put it down until I had read it cover to cover. It touched me so deeply I found myself crying for her sorrow and suffering. A reader doesn't necessarily have to be going through the anguish that she went through in order to relate. Its theme is universal and I can now see why some schools are listing this book as required reading: because they might have been like me pondering weather or not to read it or not and wind up missing out one of the best stories I have read in a long time. It is so riveting that at times I forget that this is a true story. Now after reading this tale I appreciate my family more than ever before!!!!!!!!

It seems like many years ago since I read this book, maybe when I was in fifth grade or so? I still could remember the tears flowing down my eyes as I read about this poor, neglected child. As I grew up the story did too. I witnessed hundreds of my own kin reading this book and exclaiming the beauty it shared. This is a very good book and those who are reluctant, well just don't be.

Chinese cinderella is a touching story about a young girl who is known as the outcast of the family because her mother died from giving birth to her. It is one of the saddest books I have ever read and it is bound to make you emotional. Adeline Yen Mah makes you understand the story and brings the story back to life as you follow the journies of this unwanted child who has no mothers love and no fathers care.

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story Of an Unwanted Daughter
By: Adeline Yen Mah
Reviewed By: S Siler
Period: 2

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story Of an Unwanted Daughter, one of the most realistic and fun books I ever read. This book is a different and unusual book I¡¯ve read. This book is a autobiography of the author of Chinese Cinderella: The True Story Of an Unwanted Daughter.
Know to talk about the book this book is about when the main charter is a little girl. When the little girl was bourn she hat one older sister and two older brothers. Also when she was bourn here mother died because of complications of the birth of her daughter. Remember this happed in the older days. So the doctor couldn¡¯t saver her mother and after that the little girl had to go through pain she suffering with her older brother and sister.
To this day her brother and her one sister says that she is a cursed baby. They said that because after her mother died their father married a lady, a mean lady. That where the Cinderella part cones in the title. So all the girl life she has to live with you are cursed. Also She hates that because she looks at it like "ad least my mother brought people into the would to take her place this is my favorate spot in the book.
When the little girl was five she went to school. When she went to school she was well liked and got a meddle for being a good student. But no one cared in her family they took away her medal and laugh at her. Her aunt baba is the only one that believed in her. Even her dad was sad. He forgot his daughters name when he was registrant her for schooltheirs nothing in this book that I didnt like. I hope I educated you enough to go out and read this book.

I think yennies got some issues. I mean, when i saw this book i thought it would be like the disney movie, but in a chinese version. I'm don't wanna dog on this book because i thought it was aight(especially since i don't read too often), but it had some off the wall stuff. This was a very depressive book. I think they probbably made this a movie on the lifetime channel(the womans network). her family don't even the like girl and her brothers saying that she killed their momma. those brothers are nasty!! they pissed in a cup and gave it to her like a glass of kool-aid. but later she does smart in her school and wins that thing in her high school and her family relize she wants to go to school in england. It got to me twice when her sister and gandaddy die. Her aunt is one of the nicest people to her. she soon goes to school and becomes a doctor later in life and then a writer. i don't think i said this yet but its about the authors childhood life. This book is more for the teens dealing with problems just like yen. If your into sad stories this is a book for you. Overall, i thought it was a good book. So go out and by the book. for me, im just gonna go pick out some movies,...