FALLING LEAVES RETURN TO THEIR ROOTS. The True Story of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter.
by Adeline Yen Mah
Category: California

After Adeline's mother died, her affluent father remarried a French-Chinese teenager, Niang, and the family moved to Shanghai where they lived in a large house in the middle of the French Concession. During this time, the 1930s, when everything western in treaty ports such as Shanghai was deemed superior to anything Chinese, Niang was the ultimate status symbol and Adeline's father was besotted.