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Falling leaves
Title: Falling leaves
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 734 | Pages: 3.1 (approximately 235 words/page)
Falling leaves
The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter
In order to explain the first scene in this memoir, Adeline Yen Mah has filled the opening chapters with lusty images of an emerging nation amid burgeoning commercial & international life at the end of an empire & the start of a revolution. Falling leaves, with its endearing cover photo, touching chapter titles & sprinkling of Chinese language characters, is about her family in the French Concession of Shanghai; about …showed first 75 words of 734 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 734 total…When Adeline copes with the death of her father, then her stepmother's cruel will, letters of persecution, sibling reunions and predictable betrayals, I get the distinct impression her reactions are beyond her control. It was heartbreaking to watch this respected physician, wife & parent, relegated to the youngest member of her family, bending over backwards, to help, appease and cajole her siblings out of their sourness. And then President Nixon opens up China to Western visitors.
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