Falling leaves return to their roots落叶归根

Adeline Yen Mah's childhood in China during the civil war was a time of fear, isolation and humiliation. The cause of this was not political upheaval but systematic emotional and physical abuse by her step mother and siblings, and rejection by her father. Falling Leaves is the story of a 'Fifth Younger Daughter'
and her determination to survive the pain of a lonely childhood。

广场空荡荡――儿童文学中短篇小说

考试作弊大全（科幻版）——男孩·女..

一座城池

会有天使替我爱你

Thought to bring bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her, Adeline Yen Mah was discriminated against by her family all her life. Falling Leaves is both the moving story of how she survived that rejection and an enthralling saga of a Chinese family, from the time of the foreign concession to the rise of Communist China and the commercial boom of Hong Kong.

Book Description
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.

Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.9 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)11

Acknowledgements
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER 1 门当户封Men Dang Hu Dui：TheAppropriate Door Fits the Frame of theCorrect House
CHAPTER 2 黠钱成金Dian Tie Cheng Jin：Converting Iron into Gold
CHAPTER 3 如影随形Ru Ying Sui Xing：Inseparable as Each Other’S Shadows
CHAPTER 4 秀色可餐Xiu Se Ke Can：Surpassing Loveliness Good Enough tO Feast Upon
CHAPTER 5 一埸春笋Yi Chang Chun Meng：An Episode of a Spring Dream
CHAPTER 6 家魄不可外扬lia Chou Bu Ke Wai Yang：Family Ugliness Should Never be Aired in Public
CHAPTER 7 绿木求鱼Yuan Mu Qiu Yu：Climbing aTreetO SeekforFish
CHAPTER 8 一视同仁 Yi Shi Tong Ren：Extend the Same Treatment tO All
CHAPTER 9 人傺地霞Ren，Jie Ling：Inspired Scholar in an Enchanting Land
CHAPTER 1O 度日如年Du Ri R“Nian：Each Day PassesLike aYear
CHAPTER 11 自出橇杼Zi Chu ji Zhu：Original Ideas in Literary Composition
CHAPTER 12 同床巽萝Tong Chuang Yi Meng：Same Bed，Different Dreams
CHAPTERI13 有何不可?y0UHeB“Ker Is Anything Impossible?
CHAPTER 14 一琴一鹤Yi QinⅥHe：One Lute．One Crane
CHAPTER 15 釜中游点F“Zhong You Yu：Fish Swimming in a Cauldron
CHAPTER 16 匹焉罩绘Pi Ma Dan Qiang：One Horse，Single Spear
CHAPTER 17 嫁鷄随鷄Jia ji Shui ji：Marry a Chicken，Follow a C：hicken
CHAPTER 18 檀瓜得瓜Zhong Gua De Gua：YouPlant Melons，You Reap Melons
CHAPTER 19 心如死灰Xin Ru Si Hui：HeartsReduced to Ashes
CHAPTER 20 腹中鳞甲Fu Zhong Lin lia Scalesand Shells in the Belly
CHAPTER 21 天作之合Tian ZUO Zhi He：Heaven—made Union
CHAPTER 22 四面楚歌Si Mian Chu Ge：Besieged bv Hostile Forces on All Sides
CHAPTER 23 粗茶淡饭C“Cha Dan Fan:Coarse Tea and Plain Rice
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