Chinese Cinderella

Chinese Cinderella

Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter (also issued as Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter) is a book by the Chinese-American physician and author Adeline Yen Mah describing her experiences growing up in China during the Second World War. First published in 1999, Chinese Cinderella is a revised version of part of her 1997 autobiography, Falling Leaves. Her mother dies while giving birth to her and she is known to her family as bad luck. Her father remarries to a woman who gives harsh discipline to Adeline and her brother while her half-brother and half-sister are spoiled