Adeline Yen Mah's The Chinese Cinderella

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This book called “The Chinese Cinderella”. It’s by a woman named Adeline Yen Mah. The Genre of the book Autobiographical Fiction. This story took place in China through 1941-1951. This book tells the life of the author growing up as child.
This story is about a girl named Adeline Yen Mah. She was born in Tianjin, her mother dies a few weeks after she was born so her family despises her for that tragic moment.She plays the role of a little sweet girl. Her father wish for nothing to left of her mother so he ordered all pictures destroyed. Now she has hardly nothing left because she is an unwanted child of her father.
Some time after the death of Adeline's mother, her father married a beautiful Eurasian woman named Jean. The children were all

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