Title: An ocean apart, a world away
Description: Despite the odds facing her decision to become a doctor in 1920's Nanking, China, teenaged Yanyan leaves her family to study at Cornell University where, along with hard work, she finds prejudice and loneliness as well as friendship and a new sense of accomplishment.
Subjects: Juvenile fiction, Chinese, Cornell University, Prejudices, Fiction, Interpersonal relations, History, Achinese
Places: New York (State), China
Time periods: 20th century