Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter / Adeline Yen Mah.
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TextPublisher: New York : Broadway Books, c1999Edition: Firstst broadway books trade paperback editionDescription: ix, 278 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0767903579[newsprint]Uniform titles: Falling leaves return to their roots Subject(s): Mah, Adeline Yen, 1937- | Chinese Americans -- California -- Biography | Women physicians -- California -- Biography | California -- Biography | China -- Social life and customsOnline resources: Contributor biographical information | Sample text | Publisher description | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Originally published: Falling leaves return to their roots. London : M. Joseph, c1997.
Includes index.
Contents: Prologue -- Chapter 1 men dang hu dui: the appropriate door fits the frame of the correct house -- Chapter 2 dian tie cheng jin: converting iron into gold -- Chapter 3 ru ying sui xing: inseparable as each other's shadows -- Chapter 4 xiu se ke can: surpassing loveliness good enough to feast upon -- Chapter 5 yi chang chun meng: an episode of a spring dream -- Chapter 6 jia chou bu ke wai yang: family ugliness should never be aired in public -- Chapter 7 yuan mu qiu yu: climbing a tree to seek for fish -- Chapter 8 yi shi tong ren: extend the same treatment to all -- Chapter 9 ren jie di ling: inspired scholar in an enchanting land -- Chapter 10 du ri ru nian: each day passes like a year -- Chapter 11 zi chu ji zhu: original ideas in literary composition -- Chapter 12 tong chuang yi meng: same bed, different dreams -- Chapter 13 you he bu ke?: is anything impossible? -- Chapter 14 yi qin yi he: one lute, one crane -- Chapter 15 fu zhong you yu: fish swimming in a cauldron -- Chapter 16 pi ma dan qiang: one horse, single spear -- Chapter 17 jia ji shui ji: marry a chicken, follow a chicken -- Chapter 18 zhong gua de gua: you plant melons, you reap melons -- Chapter 19 xin ru si hui: hearts reduced to ashes -- Chapter 20 fu zhong lin jia: scales and shells in the belly -- Chapter 21 tian zuo zhi he: heaven-made union -- Chapter 22 si mian chu ge: besieged by hostile forces on all sides -- Chapter 23 cu cha dan fan: coarse tea and plain rice -- Chapter 24 yin shui si yuan: while drinking water, remember the source -- Chapter 25 yi dao liang duan: sever this kinship with one whack of the knife -- Chapter 26 wu feng qi lang: creating waves without wind -- Chapter 27 jin zhu zhe chi, jim mo zhe hei: near vermilion, one great stained red; near ink, one gets stained black -- Chapter 28 jiu rou peng you: wine and meat friends -- Chapter 29 wu tou gong an: headless and clueless case -- Chapter 30 kai men yi dao: opened the door to salute the thief -- Chapter 31 yan er dao ling: steal the bell while covering your ears -- Chapter 32 luo ye gui gen: falling leaves return to their roots.
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