Chinese Cinderella Flashcards
1
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author of Chinese Cinderella
A
Adeline Yen Mah
2
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Background on extract of Chinese Cinderella.
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- A young girl in 1950’s in hong kong
- rejected by her dominating stepmother and despised by her brothers and sisters.
- Sent to boarding school.
- extract from one of the few times that she went home.
3
Q
What is the Chinese Cinderella about?
A
Went home because she won a writing competition, didn’t know she had moved house: chauffeur told her, got summoned to her fathers room, he told her she won and that she could go to medical school in England like her siblings.
