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Luo ye gui gen (Falling Leaves)

  • Adeline Yen Mah

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Adeline Yen Mah was born in 1937 in Tianjin, a port city one thousand miles north of Shanghai. She was the fifth and youngest child of an affluent family. Her grand aunt - in an unprecedented achievement - had founded the Shanghai Women's Bank in 1924, and her father was a revered businessman whose reputation for turning iron into gold began when he started his own firm at the age of nineteen.

Yet wealth and position could not shield young Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of her own family.

Adeline's mother died giving birth to her. As a result she was deemed bad luck, and considered inferior and insignificant by her older siblings, who bullied her relentlessly. When her father took a beautiful Eurasian as his new wife, Adeline found herself at the mercy of a cold and cruelly manipulative stepmother. While Niang treated all of her stepchildren as second-class citizens, the full power of her wrath was unleashed on Adeline.

As the Red Army approached in 1949, the family moved to Hong Kong. Adeline was shuttled off to boarding school in virtual isolation, forbidden visitors, mail, and all contact with her family. Burying herself in books, she dreamed of freedom and a new life.

Genres

  • Biography
  • California
  • China
  • Chinese Americans
  • Family
  • History
  • Social conditions
  • Social life and customs
  • Stepchildren
  • Women physicians
  • nyt:family=2015-02-08
  • New York Times bestseller
  • California, biography
  • China, social life and customs
  • Mah, adeline yen , 1937-
  • Yen, joseph tsi-rung , 1907-1988
  • Women physicians--california--biography
  • Chinese americans--california--biography
  • Families--history
  • Families--china--history--20th century
  • Stepchildren--social conditions
  • Stepchildren--china--social conditions
  • Families
  • Families--china--20th century
  • Ct275.m45115 a3 1997
  • Biography & Autobiography
  • Nonfiction
  • Chinese americans
  • China, juvenile literature
  • Women, biography
  • Women, biography, juvenile literature
  • China, biography
  • Chinese American women
  • Easy to read materials
  • Manners and customs
  • Biographies
  • Chinois
  • Recits personnels
  • Moeurs et coutumes
  • Mujeres como médicos
  • Vida social y costumbres
  • Chino-americanos
  • Biografía
  • Readers
  • China, social conditions
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About the author

  • Adeline Yen Mah

    born 1937-11-30

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    7 ratings · 9 works

Editions

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    Flamingo

    Mar 17, 1999

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    Anthos

    Mar 17, 1997

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    Anthos

    Mar 17, 1997

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    Anthos

    Mar 17, 1997

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Pearson

May 13, 2008

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    Pearson Education Limited

    Jun 29, 2008

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    Alfaguara

    April 1, 2000

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    France loisirs

    2002

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    Longman, Penguin Longman Publishing

    April 3, 2002

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    Le Livre de Poche

    June 12, 2002

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    New Ed edition

    Longman

    June 27, 2001

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    Heyne

    April 1, 2002

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    [New ed.]

    Pearson Education

    2001

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    Penguin Group UK

    2009

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    Penguin, Penguin UK

    1997

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    Largeprint edition

    Thorndike Press

    May 1999

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    Wiley

    1998

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    Broadway Books

    1997

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    Broadway Books

    1999

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    Alfaguara

    July 2000

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    Penguin Audio

    1999-01-01

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    L'archipel

    2000-01-01

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    Pearson Education Australia

    2012

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    Penguin Books, Limited

    2010

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    Pearson Education, Limited

    2012

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    Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John

    2007

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    Random House, Incorporated

    1999

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    Chu ban edition

    Shi bao wen hua chu ban qi ye gu fen you xian gong si

    September 1999

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    Xing dao chu ban she

    1997

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    Penguin Books Ltd

    2004

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    Ken Fin

    1998

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    Michael Joseph

    1997

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    Alfaguara, Ediciones, S.A.- Grupo Santillana

    2000

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    Suma de Letras Suma de Letras

    September 2001