Details

Edition

1st Broadway books trade pbk. ed.

Description

ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

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Note

Originally published: Falling leaves return to their roots. London : M. Joseph, ©1997.

Includes index.

Contents

Men dung hu dui: The appropriate door fits the frame of the correct house -- Dian Tye cheng jin: Converting iron into gold -- Ru Ying Sui Xing: Inseparable as each other's shadows -- Xiu se ke can: Surpassing loveliness good enough to feast upon -- Yi chang chun meng: An episode of a spring dream -- Jia chou bu Ke wai yang: Family ugliness should never be aired in public -- Yuan mu qiu yu: Climbing a tree to seek for fish -- Yi shi tong ren: Extend the same treatment to all -- Ren jie di ling: Inspired scholar in an enchanting land -- Du ri ru niam: Each day passes like a year -- Zi chu ji zhu: Original ideas in literary composition -- Ton chuang yi meng: Same bed, different dreams --?You he bu ke?: Is anything possible? -- Yi qin yi he: One lute, one crane -- Fu Zhong You Yu: Fish swimming in a cauldron -- Pi Ma Dan Qiang: One horse, single spear -- Jia ji shui ji: marry a chicken follow a chicken -- Zhong gua de gua: You plant melons, you reap mjelons -- Xin ru si hui: Hearts reduced to ashes -- Fu Zhong lin jia: Scales and shells in the belly -- Tian zuo zhi he: Heaven-made union -- Si mian chu ge: Besieged by hostile forces on all sides -- Cu cha dan fan: Coarse tea and plain rice -- Yin shui si yuan: While drinking water, remember the source -- Yi dao liang duan: Sever this kinship with one whack of the knife -- Wu feng qi lang: Creating waves without wind -- Jin zhu zhe chi, jin mo zhe hei: Near vermilion, one gets stained red; Near ink, one gets stained black -- Jiu rou peng you: Wine and meat friends -- Wu tou gong an: Headless and clueless case -- Kai men yi dao: Opened the door to salute the thief -- Yan er dao ling: Steal the bell while covering your ears -- Luo ye gui gen: Falling leaves return to their roots.

Summary

The true story of a young Chinese girl who grew up feeling unloved by her father who remarried shortly after her mother's death and treated his new family and subsequent children as upper class compared to his first children.

Subject

Mah, Adeline Yen, 1937-

Chinese Americans -- California -- Biography.

Women physicians -- California -- Biography.

California -- Biography.

China -- Social life and customs.

Mah, Adeline Yen, 1937- (OCoLC)fst00391790

Chinese Americans. (OCoLC)fst00857249

Manners and customs. (OCoLC)fst01007815

Women physicians. (OCoLC)fst01178296

California. (OCoLC)fst01204928

China. (OCoLC)fst01206073

Genre/Form

Biography.

Autobiographies. (OCoLC)fst01919894

Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896

Autobiographies.

ISBN

0767903579 (pbk.)

9780767903578 (pbk.)