![]() ![]() She was hostile towards all the children, particularly the unlucky Yen Mah, and went out of her way to inflict many petty cruelties on the child while favouring her own two children. Her new stepmother was a self-centred Eurasian woman who resented the five children she acquired with her husband. ![]() Already an outcast among her own siblings, Yen Mah's situation became more unpleasant when her father remarried. ![]() In Chinese culture this tragedy marked Yen Mah as bad luck to the family. Her mother died two weeks after Yen Mah's birth because of complications from the delivery. Yen Mah was the fifth child in an affluent family. "The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter" is the subtitle of Chinese Cinderella, Adeline Yen Mah's unforgettable and heart-breaking account of her lonely and unhappy childhood. ![]()
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