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Summary: awesome
Review: This book is so good. I'm being really honest. Adeline makes you feel that you are in her shoes. She never gets to the point of making you fall asleep. I was never able to put the book down. After learning about chinese communists in my history class, Adeline made me understand it clearly. The communists affected her own life and it is amazing to know about different people's perspectives on the danger that went throughout different parts of China. It is also amazing to know how parents treated their children in those days. My last statement about this book is if you are reading this please consider buying this book becase it is so touching. Adeline is a truew writer and has given you the chance to read something that was hard for her to write but did it so people could know how she lived in China. This book is not all about history but it is alot about freindship, love from cousins and aunts, and bravery.
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Summary: Recommended for middle schoolers, high schoolers, and above
Review: Chinese Cinderella is an aptly named title for this work by Adeline Y. Mah. This is an autobiographical account of what it was like to grow up in China during the 1940s and 50s. The heroine has an unhappy childhood when her father remarries. The other siblings blame her for her mother's death. The father ignores her, and the stepmother pits all the siblings against each other. Adeline escapes from the petty tyranny and callous behavior of her family by spending time on her studies, and with her beloved Aunt Baba. She uses education as a way to escape from her unhappy family life. It's a story of how one can triumph over great odds. A good companion to this book is Falling Leaves by the same author. There, the reader will learn more about the author's life.
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Summary: A compelling story of a young girl's fight for acceptance
Review: "Chinese Cinderella" is the autobiography of Adeline Yen Mah, an author who grew up in communist China during the 1940s. Following the death of her mother shortly after Adeline's birth, the little girl is looked upon as bad luck and made to feel unwanted. In a story that sometimes parallels that of the real Cinderella, Adeline is neglected and mistreated, ignored by her father and hated by her stepmother. The only affection shown to Adeline is that given by her aunt and grandfather. Her success at school becomes a way of seeking attention and approval from her father, a fact sometimes resented by her siblings. When she unintentionally disobeys an order never to bring her friends home, her parents have her sent away to a boarding school in Tianjin. Throughout her school career, Adeline's dream is to follow her brothers to university in England, but it is only when she wins an international play-writing contest that her father finally accepts her as his daughter and grants her wish. Chinese Cinderella is a touching and compelling story of a child's fight to be accepted by those around her. Throughout the book, Adeline remains positive and hopeful for the future and the author manages to gain the reader's sympathy without indulging in self-pity. From a historical point, this novel is fascinating, as it tells of life for a young girl in China around the time of the Second World War. The author also provides information on Chinese culture, tradition and history, as well as a translation of the real Cinderella story. The book was fantastic and I managed to read it straight through with out stopping. The tale of a young girl's strength in the face of such cruelty and neglect is truly inspiring and teaches you to value the love that you might otherwise take for granted. I have also read "Falling Leaves", a version of this book that is targeted at adults, and would give that a five-star rating also. I would recommend Chinese Cinderella to all young adults and for and any child who knows what it is like to feel alone in the world. ~Jenna S. Ryan~
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Summary: Chinese Cinderalla
Review: I bought this book after my friend recommened it to me. I wasn't very eager to start reading it because I had never read a book about chinese cutlure. At first when I started reading, I was reading really slow-in an uneager manner, I would say. But, as soon as I had finished the first chapter, I could not keep myself from turning the pages. By the end of the first night, I had read 10 chapters. It is a very good book that I would recommend to anyone that has suffered because of the cruelty of a mother. In this book, Adeline suffers from the hatred of her stepmother,while her younger stepbrother and stepsister are pampered by the servants of the house. Everyone in the house except her older sister and father hate Adeline because they call her bad luck. Adeline's mother had died in giving birth to Adeline, and that is why everybody called her bad luck. Read the heartbreaking story about Adeline, and how she is sent off to a boarding school and then abandoned. This book was very touching, and very sad, because of the part in which Adeline's grandmother dies. I would also recommend this book to anyone who likes to read about chinese culture and the suffering that chinese girls went through.
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Summary: A Girl Who Found Herself
Review: A Chinese Cinderella was a great book. Yen Jun-Ling (Adeline Yen) has a very courageous story to tell. Adeline starts off as a Kindergartiner who has won a medal and the only way in making her father notice her is to bring pride to her family such as good grades and awards. She has to get good grades because she has been shunned from her family. When she was her born her mother had gotten a high fever and dies two weeks later. Everybody treats her unequally, especially her father. Her father has ignored all five of his children ever since he married a half French and half Chinese woman. They soon have two kids together and her father treats his stepchildren better than his biological children. This novel is about a girl's journey through life and how she came to get her father to see her as "his daughter."
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Summary: Chinese Cinderella
Review: This book is enchanting but said. Parents and children over 11 will enjoy this book as this child fights for her life . Her father only keeps her around for she is a good student and more than anything she wants to go to college.
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Summary: Chinese Cinderella a story about a girl
Review: I thought this book was very movving. Itt telss the stoy oth a yung gal who is unwantd bie her familly as becoz of her her mother dyed so she was comsiderd bad luc. Her father remarried a french vane angry lady who would have no nosenance from her step children but she adores her two own. They are so much the favourite ones even to their father. Her only friend is realy her lovVing Aunt Babs who was best friends with Adeline when she was alive. Even the Adeline's school certficats went into her saftey depoit box where the key is on a chain round her neck. This made Adeline feel more special and loved because to her, her own school results are Aunt Bab's specal treasures. I thought this book is very good and a recommend it for a younger reader as I thogt that I was a bitt two old!
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Summary: Hello? the Best book ever!
Review: Actually, I'm only 12. But I finished the book in less than 2 days, because i could NOT keep it down. It is so inspiring, making me feel how lucky I am right now, to at least have a ride to school and back! And she SHOULD have critisized her stepmother and father because they have been such irresponsible and cruel parents whether or not they are chinese and girls are useless then. After reading this book, I feel like I actually know this girl. Like I met her before. Her writing is so good I can just feel it. Everyone, please buy this book. When I saw it in the book store once, I thought it was too advanced for me and I was too lazy for it, but I bought it. And guess what? It is not advanced, its just there are many pages, but each page is written with thought. And I am a lazy person, but to have a book as good as this I can not bear closing it.
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Summary: chinese perspective.
Review: This book was well written. but not so as many people would say. To understand my meaning you need to look at this in a chinese perspective. In china at the time girls were of no use to a family. girls would be married and take their husbands name. this was true especially is your birth had killed your mother. The step mother Niang, had every right in chinese perspective to do every single thing that she did. the same goes to her father. The children of Niang would of course have a better life. this is just chinese tradition. the author of this book should not have critizied the stepmother and father as she did. Also, boarding schools were only for the rich and were very expensive. for her father to have sent her to one is actually a sort of honor. I did feel alot of pity for her when i first read this book then thought about it and realized the above. over all though it is well written and very touching for such a small little girl to have lived through her life like she did.
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Summary: GooD!
Review: I was in doubt when I wanted to buy this book... finally I did and I did not regret buying it. Some of the terms are unfamiliar to me eventhough it was translated into English. Anyhow, I just could not put the book down and eventually finished reading it within 2 days. I enjoyed myself and the ending is unpredictable... I am sure this kind of mindset of the parents are still loitering around. Finally there are more and more chinese writers coming up... well done...
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