Book Description
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. But while Niang gave her own two children beautiful clothes and lovely presents, she treated her five stepchildren harshly and with disdain. Adeline in particular was considered inferior and insignificant and she was bullied and beaten by her siblings. When the family moved to Hong Kong in 1949, Adeline was banished to a boarding school from which she was rarely allowed home. Set against a background of changing political times and the collision of East and West, this text describes how the complexities of family relationships were to come to a head at her father's and Niang's deaths. It also tells of how Adeline survived the traumas of her childhood to make a successful career for herself.
Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.9 width:(cm)11
發表於2024-12-24
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載
看瞭兩遍,我本身也很好奇那個舊時代的人怎麼生活,這本書給我一種穿越時空的感覺。adeline很勵誌,但不是所有人都像她一樣聰明可以靠自己智慧打拼。很羨慕這樣的女人。看的是英文版,好奇有沒有中文版,書中有些情節還是對communist蠻負麵的。
評分The book, vividly written in English, provides a very personal account of life back to the 1900s, when flourishing business and foreign influence claimed the coastal metropolis of Shanghai and Tianjin. Yet it has delved too much into daily nuisance - her se...
評分看瞭兩遍,我本身也很好奇那個舊時代的人怎麼生活,這本書給我一種穿越時空的感覺。adeline很勵誌,但不是所有人都像她一樣聰明可以靠自己智慧打拼。很羨慕這樣的女人。看的是英文版,好奇有沒有中文版,書中有些情節還是對communist蠻負麵的。
評分已經忘記當年選擇閱讀馬嚴君玲這本傳記的初衷,很可能是抱著一種研究態度,想瞭解二戰初期的中國,也好奇那時候的富人生活。如果真是這樣,我大概沒有從馬嚴君玲的書中得到我想要的信息。 落葉歸根其實就是常見八點檔的濃縮版。狐狸精般的繼母,美麗但陰險。色迷心竅的父親,...
評分看瞭兩遍,我本身也很好奇那個舊時代的人怎麼生活,這本書給我一種穿越時空的感覺。adeline很勵誌,但不是所有人都像她一樣聰明可以靠自己智慧打拼。很羨慕這樣的女人。看的是英文版,好奇有沒有中文版,書中有些情節還是對communist蠻負麵的。
圖書標籤: Chinese-American-Literature 英文 小說 外國文學 美國 Adeline_Mah_Yen Women-Writer English
一個民國女子的麯摺經曆摺射齣那一段曆史轉摺時期的風雨衝突。
評分彆有一番瞭解~
評分一個民國女子的麯摺經曆摺射齣那一段曆史轉摺時期的風雨衝突。
評分落葉歸根
評分太窩囊,太聖母,一傢人被一個後媽壓製瞭一輩子,搞得妻離子散、骨肉相殘。看到主人公幾次逃離、努力創齣自己的新天地,都以為她會變得堅強和堅決起來,能夠反抗後母瞭,臨瞭卻聖母心大發,一直嚮後母諂媚,到結尾都沒有翻身。幾個孩子的爸爸本是巨賈,卻稀裏糊塗被妻子哄騙得死死的,窩窩囊囊把財産、親人都丟瞭,不得不令人感嘆可能人和人之間真是有宿命關係,可能真是遇到瞭剋星。語言很容易讀,作者把周圍人醜惡嘴臉都罵瞭一個遍,隻有自己是潔白無瑕的,不知道是不是有失偏頗。
Falling Leaves Return to Their Roots 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載