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Chinese cinderella

Chinese cinderella. The true story of an unwanted daughter by Adeline Yen Mah. summary.

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Chinese cinderella

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  1. Chinese cinderella The true story of an unwanted daughter by Adeline Yen Mah

  2. summary • This book is the personal history of Adeline Yen Mah, a Chinese girl who was born a few years before WWII. Adeline's mother died shortly after her birth to her so she was denoted as a misfortune of her family. It only got worse when her father remarried a beautiful half-French lady who introduced a ‘division of classes’ within the family and will stop at nothing to further make Adeline's life a living hell.

  3. Timeline • 1937: Birth of Adeline and death of her mother (Tianjin) • 1938: Father remarries half French, half Chinese woman • 1942: Adeline starts Kindergarten (St. Joseph’s French Covenant school; Grandmother dies • 1943: Family moves to Shanghai; Attends new school • January 1946: Adeline transfers back to Tianjin and is temporarily disowned by her parents

  4. May 1946: Adeline travels to Hong Kong (because of communist activity in Tianjin) with her Aunt; attends boarding school • 1951: Adeline is accepted back in the family after winning a writing contest; Grandfather dies

  5. HISTORICAL timeline • 1930s and early 1940s: Tianjin, China was still divided into foreign concessions despite the fact that the Japanese army ruled the entire country outside these foreign concessions. Adeline’s powerful and rich family lived in the French concession where they were ruled by French citizens adhering to the French laws and constitution (that’s why she went to a French school when she was little) • 1939: WWII happened

  6. 1941: Japan bombed Pearl Harbor and declared war on the US and UK • 1945-1949: Japan surrenders; For China, it marked the resumption of the civil war between Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist Party (Kuomintang, or KMT) and Mao Zedong's Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

  7. ISSUES’ Effect on the writer • MISFORTUNE OF THE FAMILY: Affected Adeline’s self confidence (that whatever good she does, she was still nothing to her family), got bullied a lot by her siblings for ‘killing their mother’ (gave her pee to drink as a prank, slapped her head for ‘showing off’ her school award to her father) • NON-SUPPORTIVE FAMILY: Adeline learned how to be practical (using outgrown underwear as a bra), she learned to accept what she can get (by the order of her father, she went to university to get a medicinal degree instead of pursuing writing as her career)

  8. CLASS DIVISION IN THE FAMILY/FAVORITISM: Affected Adeline’s way of thinking (people more in favor with pleasant outward appearances like better clothes or better looks), Made her motivated to try her best to be in favor of her father and stepmother (tried to get better grades and tried to follow her stepmother’s pointless rules)

  9. How issues affect the broader society and how they responded to it • SOCIAL CLASSES: This issue is very common. We see everybody divided in 3 classes: upper, middle, and lower class. This affects the benefits that people get, the upper class having the most benefits and can be above the law and the lower class having a hard time even getting a decent job. This affects how people think of how other people should be treated. People usually treat the upper class like royalty while the lower class is thought to be just stepped on • NON-SUPPORTIVE FAMILY: This issue affects the future generation. Having no support system, a child can either go to the bad way or be successful |(like Adeline). A kid might not do as well in school because his parents don’t care.

  10. (continued) It can also affect the lives of future children. The woman could get her parents’ bad ways and apply it to her child. Of course, there are many cases where the parents who were treated badly made a different and more positive approach towards their kids. • Social classes can also spread out to racism, sexism, people against another religion (an example would be Donald Trump)

  11. WOULD I RECOMMEND IT? • Yes I would. This is a great book. I read this when I was about 9 years old. This is a victory book. Chinese Cinderella tells you to never stop trying, even if all the odds are against you. Adeline is such an inspiration. • I would recommend this book to kids in middle school, just because this is a lot to take in (The violence and the historical timeline and all the Chinese words in the book). Personally, I had to read this book so many times since I was in 3rd grade, just to understand what was truly happening.

  12. bibliography • http://www.gradesaver.com/chinese-cinderella/study-guide/summary • https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/102274 • https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/adeline-yen-mah-chinese-cinderella • https://gatheringbooks.org/2011/02/03/adeline-yen-mahs-chinese-cinderella-the-true-story-of-an-unwanted-daughter/ • http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199791279/obo-9780199791279-0031.xml

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