Library: China

ID Code Title Author Description Home(s)
13939 CH1 Falling Leaves – The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter Adeline Yen Mah, Penguin Books, 1997 Thought to bring bad luck because her mother died giving birth to her, Adeline Yen Mah was discriminated against by her family all her life. Falling Leaves is both the moving story of how she survived that rejection and an enthralling saga of a Chinese family, from the time of the foreign concessions to the rise of Communist China and the commercial boom of Hong Kong.
13940 CH2 The Ford of Heaven Brian Power, Corgi Books, 1984 The autobiography of Brian's childhood raised by a Chinese amah (Chinese servant) while growing up in revolutionary Tianjin China during the 1920s and 1930s.