This book is called Chinese Cinderella The secret of the unwanted daughter .It is a very long title so l thought l would abbreviate as Chinese Cinderella.
The auther is Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline is her English name and Yen is her Chinese name. Finally Mah is her family surname. This ia an autobiography.
Sorry for that long introduction to this book review and l am also sorry that l have not posted in a while. Also this is the mystery post l was talking about in the last post/Book review. Go check it out!
This book is about a child being neglected (we will go back to why she was neglected) but when she was not being neglected she was being bullied by her siblings. Now the reason she (Adeline Yen Mah) was getting neglected is because she is the reason (kind of) for her mother's death. Her mothers death happened soon after she was born so everyone took her as the blame. Sad right? Well one year after that her father remarried, to someone who was not very nice to her step-children. To make matters worse her step-mother had her own children and of course no one said it it was clear that her children were better than her step-children. If you disobeyed there was an extremely harsh (well very harsh like on a scale on one to ten it was probaly a nine, as ten being the worst it was a pretty bad punishment).
Some of it is written in Chinese, so if you can not read it there is a section where it translates it for you.
⬇WARNING⬇
The adult version of Chinese Cinderella is called Falling leaves. So if you are 12 and under read Chinese Cinderella and if you are 13+ read either one (or both)!
This book makes me sad because of how they treat Adeline and others, it is just really unfair! Everyone has the right to be treated well and with respect.
I give this book 5 out of 5 stars ⛦ because of how every thing happened and l just really enjoyed this book :) And on a (good) side note you also learn about the history of China and how it became what it is now! For example you learn when there was a Communist war and the Japanese soldiers invaded, her family had to keep moving.
Hope you enjoyed it! Love-bookworm blog 💕
Hi! Hope you enjoy this book review l should also have a new post soon as well!
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I forgot to do the Question of the blog! So lets do it here right now! The question is... what do you think you would do if you were Adeline Yen Mah?
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ReplyDeleteIt sounds like you would gain a better understanding of Chinese culture by reading this book. How did Adeline cope with all the bullying? Did she rise above it or let it consume her? Great review.
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DeleteWell it got to her and sometimes it affected her but normaly it never got to her!
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I hope there was a happy ending to this cinderella story! Did you read the adult version or the kids version? It sounds like a really interesting book. I'd like to learn more about chinese history. Did it take you long to read?
ReplyDeleteI read the childrens version first. It took me about 2 and a half hours to read! Probably because (not to brag) l am a really fast reader.
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Ah cool. I might look for the adult version. Thanks for the recommendation :P
DeleteThe adult version is more violent l think (l have not read the adult version)!
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An excellent piece of blog: I enjoy every sentence of it. Yes, in ancient China, stepchildren were treated differently, especially female. Anyways, this kind of subculture is no more.
ReplyDeleteAnd it is also true, that the war between China and Japan had last for 3 years and 8 months: Japanese was trying to colonized China, but Chinese were fighting back which is an unpleasant piece of Chinese history: during the war ,so many Chinese as well as Japanese lost their lives.
Thank you for the feedback. The history oh China is very long! This is only a bit of it!
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