Chinese Cinderella’s genre is ‘Autobiographical novel’. Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, China, and trained to be a doctor in London. She has had a distinguished career in medicine in United States. Adeline Yen Mah divides her time between Los Angeles, London, Shanghai and Hong Kong. Chinese Cinderella is the true story of Yen Mah’s childhood up to age of fourteen. Chinese is pictorial language. Every word is a different picture and has to be memorized separately. There is no alphabet and no connection between the written and spoken language. A person can learn to read and write Chinese without knowing how to speak one word. Because each word is a pictograph, Chinese calligraphy evokes a greater emotional response than the same word lettered
