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Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter /

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The daughter of a wealthy Hong Kong businessman describes her very difficult childhood and the psychological abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother A chronicle of a young Chinese girl's struggle for love and survival in a wealthy, abusive family. This is a true story, much of it was...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mah, Adeline Yen, 1937- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Wiley, 1997.
Subjects:
Mah, Adeline Yen, > 1937-
Chinese Americans > California > Biography.
Women physicians > California > Biography.
California > Biography.
China > Social life and customs.
Américains d'origine chinoise > Californie > Biographies.
Femmes médecins > Californie > Biographies.
Californie > Biographies.
Chine > Mœurs et coutumes.
Chinese Americans
Manners and customs
Women physicians
California
China
Women physicians > Biography.
Chinese Americans > Biography.
Autobiography
Biography
autobiographies (literary works)
Autobiographies
Biographies
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Appropriate door fits the frame of the correct house (Men Dang Hu Dui)
  • Converting iron into gold (Dian Tie Cheng Jin)
  • Inseparable as each other's shadows (Ru Ying Sui Xing)
  • Surpassing loveliness good enough to feast upon (Xiu Se Ke Can)
  • An episode of a spring dream (Chang Chun Meng)
  • Family ugliness should never be aired in public (Jia Chou Bu Ke Wai Yang)
  • Climbing a tree to seek for fish (Yuan Mu Qiu Yu)
  • Extend the same treatment to all (Yi Shi Tong Ren)
  • Inspired scholar in an enchanting land (Ren Jie Di Ling)
  • Each day passes like a year (Du Ri Ru Nian)
  • Original ideas in literary composition (Zi Chu Ji Zhu)
  • Same bed, different dreams (Tong Chuang Yi Meng)
  • Is anything impossible? (You He Bu Ke?)
  • One lute, one crane (Yi Qin Yi He)
  • Fish swimming in a cauldron (Fu Zhong You Yu)
  • One horse, single spear (Pi Ma Dan Qiang)
  • Marry a chicken, follow a chicken (Jia Ji Shui Ji)
  • You plant melons, you reap melons (Zhong Gua De Gua)
  • Hearts reduced to ashes (Xin Ru Si Hui)
  • Scales and shells in the belly (Fu Zhong Lin Jia)
  • Heaven-made union (Tian Zuo Zhi He)
  • Besieged by hostile forces on all sides (Si Mian Chu Ge)
  • Coarse tea and plain rice (Cu Cha Dan Fan)
  • While drinking water, remember the source (Yin Shui Si Yuan)
  • Sever this kinship with one whack of the knife (Yi Dao Liang Duan)
  • Creating waves without wind (Wu Feng Qi Lang)
  • Near Vermilion, one gets stained red; near ink, one gets stained black (Jin Zhu Zhe Chi, Jin Mo Zhe Hei)
  • Wine and meat friends (Jiu Rou Peng You)
  • Headless and clueless case (Wu Tou Gong An)
  • Opened the door to salute the thief (Kai Men Yi Dao)
  • Steal the bell while covering your ears (Yan Er Dao Ling)
  • Falling leaves return to their roots (Luo Ye Gui Gen).