Falling Leaves - The True Story Of An Unwanted Chinese Daughter

1999 Broadway Books trade paperback, 23rd printing. Adeline Yen Mah (Chinese Cinderella: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter). Born in 1937 in a port city a thousand miles north of Shanghai, Adeline Yen Mah was the youngest child of an affluent Chinese family who enjoyed rare privileges during a time of political and cultural upheaval. But wealth and position could not shield Adeline from a childhood of appalling emotional abuse at the hands of a cruel and manipulative Eurasian stepmother. - Amazon