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Adeline Yen Mah first told her story in the emotive, bestselling Falling Leaves, an adult autobiography which charted her passage from childhood through to womanhood. Here in Chinese Cinderella she relates her tale for younger readers, detailing her difficult life as an unwanted and deeply misunderstood child.
Christened with the Chinese name Jun-ling, her mother died just a few days after her birth, and from that moment her fate within her family was sealed. As one of seven siblings, including two children from her father's second marriage, Jun-ling struggled to maintain her dignity from a young age, treated as she was with a vicious contempt by all around her at home, apart from her beloved Aunt Baba and her elderly grandfather.
Growing up as she did in a relatively wealthy Chinese family in the 40s and 50s, the privileges that money would normally give such a child passed her by, and even her intelligence which shone through as early as kindergarten could not save her from the emotional brutality of a family who simply did not love her.
Jun-ling¹s story, written from the very heart of the successful adult she has become, is a stinging and hostile tale of a child whose young life was blighted by lack of care and affection and is an emotional roller coaster journey which, without actually falling into the trap of melodrama, will wring tears of rage, sadness and deep, deep frustration from any reader. (Age 10 and over) --Susan Harrison
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Jung-ling's family considers her bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her. They discriminate against her and make her feel unwanted yet she yearns and continuously strives for her parents' love. Her stepmother is vindictive and cruel andher father dismissive. Jung-ling grows up to be an academic child, with a natural ability for writing. Only her aunt and grandfather offer her any love and kindness. The story is of survival in the light of the mental and physical cruelty of her stepmother and the disloyalty of her siblings. Jung-ling blossoms in spite of everything and the story ends as her father agrees to let her study in England.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent book!!,
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This review is from: Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter (Paperback)
Chinese Cinderella was a very touching book It really made you feel in Adeline's place. You could feel her longing to have a happy life and how much she loved her Aunt Baba. It also described what growing up in China was like. It wasn't too factual, but kept to yhe story line. When I was reading it I didn't want to put it down! I finished it in 4 hours! Again I'd like to say how enjoyable this book was - I liked it so much I got FALLING LEAVES the next day!
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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one of the best books i have ever read,
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This review is from: Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter (Paperback)
i enjoyed reading this book this book very much. yen mah portrays how hard her life was very well in not to much detail. she succeeds in making the reader feel pathos towards her and also, in a lesser sense to her brothers and sisters {not her half siblings}. once i had began to read this novel i couldn't put it down and read it in a whole night, after completing this novel it left me wanting to read 'falling leaves' straight away. i recommend this book to everyone, as i am sure that most people would enjoy it.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Very good book,
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This review is from: Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter (Paperback)
This book is very, very good. It is well written and being from the point of view of a child it is very well constructed. It is heart breaking and very thought provoking through out.
It is a really easy book to read in terms of page layout and so on but Adeline Yen Mah has left out nothing of the more painful details, the story made me think all the way through about the cruelty suffered by author and how anyone can subject a child to such treatment. I would recommend this to anybody but it is not something for the light hearted.
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