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Adeline Yen Mah
Adeline Yen Mah
Mǎ Yán Jūnlíng
Born	Yen Jun-ling; 30 November 1937 (age 87); Tianjin, China
Nationality	Chinese
Education	St Joseph's Primary School, Tianjin ; (1941-1943) ; Sheng Xin Primary School, Shanghai ; (1943-1948) ; St Joseph's Primary School, Tianjin ; (1948-1949) ; Sacred Heart Canossian College, Hong Kong ; (1949-1952)
Alma mater	London Hospital Medical College
Occupation(s)	Author, physician
Known for	Writing
Notable work	Falling Leaves, Chinese Cinderella
Title	Dr. Adeline Yen Mah
Spouses	; Byron Bai-lun Soon (m. 1964⁠–⁠1970) ; Robert A. Mah (m. 1972)
Children	2
Parent(s)	Joseph Tse-Rung Yen ; (1907-1988) ; Ren Yong-Ping ; (-1937?)
Website	adelineyenmah.com

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Adeline Yen Mah (simplified Chinese: 马严君玲; traditional Chinese: 馬嚴君玲; pinyin: Mǎ Yán Jūnlíng) (馬嚴君玲) (legal birthday 30 November 1937) is a Chinese-American author and physician. She grew up in Tianjin, Shanghai and Hong Kong, and is known for her autobiography Falling Leaves.

Life

Yen Mah had an older sister called Lydia (Jun-pei) and three older brothers, Gregory (Zi-jie), Edgar (Zi-lin), and James (Zi-jun).^[1] She has stated in Falling Leaves that she did not use the real names of her siblings and their spouses to protect their identities but she did, however, use the real names of her father, stepmother, aunt and husband, while referring to her paternal grandparents only by the Chinese terms 'Ye Ye' and 'Nai Nai'.^[2]

Yen Mah also writes of her grandfather's younger sister (Yan Shuzhen),^[3] whom she calls 'Grand Aunt'. She cites Yan Shuzhen as founder and president of the Shanghai Women's Commercial and Savings Bank.^[4] Shuzhen's colleagues would often call her 'Gong Gong', meaning Grand Uncle.^[4]

Yen Mah's Early life

The story of Yen Mah's life from 1937 to 1952 is recorded in her autobiography, Chinese Cinderella.

Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, Republic of China on 30 November 1937 to 30-year-old Joseph Yen (Yen Tsi-Rung),^[5] a businessman, and Ren Yong-ping, an accountant.

Yen Mah's legal birthday is 30 November, as her father did not record her date of birth and instead he gave her his own (a common practice prior to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949).^[6] Two weeks after Yen Mah's birth, her mother died of puerperal fever and according to traditional Chinese beliefs, Yen Mah was called 'bad luck' by the rest of her family and because of this, was treated harshly throughout her childhood.^[7]

When Yen Mah was one year old in 1938, Joseph Yen married a half-French, half-Chinese (Eurasian) 17-year-old girl named Jeanne Virginie Prosperi.^[8]^[9] The children referred to her as Niang (娘 niáng, another Chinese term for mother), and she is called so throughout Chinese Cinderella. They had two children, Franklin and Susan (Jun-qing).^[10]

Yen Mah started attending kindergarten in 1941, aged 4. In her first week, she received a medal for topping her class.^[11]

In 1942, Yen Mah's father (Joseph) and stepmother (Jeanne) moved from Tianjin to Shanghai to a house along Avenue Joffre.

On 2 July 1943, Yen Mah's grandmother, died of a stroke.^[12]

Shanghai

Six weeks after the death of Nai Nai (Yen Mah's grandmother), in August 1943, Yen Mah and her full siblings joined them at the house afterward.^[13]^[14]

Two months after Yen Mah arrived in Shanghai, her grandfather, her Aunt Baba, her brother James, Franklin and Susan arrived (they delayed moving to observe the hundred days' mourning period for Nai Nai). When Susan arrived, she was too young and too close to Aunt Baba to recognise and approach her mother, Niang, who thus beat her loudly in frustration and anger. Yen Mah intervened, leading Niang to declare that she would never forgive her.^[15]

In September 1948, Yen Mah's father and stepmother brought Yen Mah back to Tianjin, where she reattended her first school.^[16]

Hong Kong

The Yen family later moved to Hong Kong when Yen Mah was eleven, and she transferred to Sacred Heart School and Orphanage (Sacred Heart Canossian College). However, in July 1951, aged 13, Yen Mah developed pneumonia.^[17] Her father visited her for the first time in many years.

Yen Mah's grandfather, Ye Ye, passed away on 27 March 1952 due to complications with diabetes.

At the age of fourteen, as her autobiography states, Yen Mah won a playwriting competition for her work Gone With the Locusts, and her father allowed her to study in England with James.^[18]^[19]^[9]

University

Yen Mah left for the United Kingdom in August 1952, and studied medicine at the London Hospital Medical College, eventually graduating with an M.B.B.S. in 1960. Later, she obtained an M.R.C.P. from the Royal College of Physicians in 1962.[2] Before the start of her career in the United States, she had a brief relationship with a man named Karl, and practised medicine in a Hong Kong hospital at the behest of her father, who refused to give her air fare when she expressed plans to move to America. She has stated in an interview with the South China Morning Post that her father wanted her to become an obstetrician in the belief that women wanted treatment only from a female doctor,^[18] but as she hated obstetrics she became an anaesthesiologist instead.^[9] Initially, Yen Mah pursued a career in medicine, including establishing a medical practice in California. However, after the success of her autobiography, Falling Leaves, she transitioned to writing full-time. She recalls that during her childhood, reading was her only escape. The characters in her book and the stories told to her by her teachers and friends inspired her to write her own novels. [3]

Yen Mah's Later life

On 13 May 1988, Yen Mah's father died.^[20] According to her autobiography Chinese Cinderella, her stepmother died in 1990. Her stepmother, Prosperi, refused to let Yen Mah and her biological siblings read her will until her own death. When the wills were read, Yen Mah had mysteriously been disinherited by Prosperi.

Yen Mah is married to Robert Mah, a professor of microbiology at UCLA.^[21] They have a daughter, Ann, who is the author of five books, including the novel The Lost Vintage.^[22]^[23] Yen Mah also has a son from a previous marriage.^{[citation needed]}

Literary career

Yen Mah's autobiography, Falling Leaves, was published in 1997, shortly after Jung Chang's memoir Wild Swans.^[9] It made the New York Times Bestseller list, selling over a million copies worldwide and translated into 22 languages.The success of Falling Leaves prompted Yen Mah to quit medicine and devote her time to writing.

Falling Leaves was translated into Chinese for the Taiwan market. It was titled Luoyeguigen (T: 落葉歸根, S: 落叶归根, P: Luòyèguīgēn). Unlike other cases of memoirs, the novel was translated by the original writer.^[24]

Her second work, Chinese Cinderella, was an abridged version of her autobiography (until she leaves for England aged 14), and has sold over one million copies worldwide. It received numerous awards, including The Children's Literature Council of Southern California in 2000 for Compelling Autobiography; and the Lamplighter's Award from National Christian School Association for Contribution to Exceptional Children's Literature in June 2002.

Published in 2001, her third book, Watching the Tree, is about Chinese philosophy and traditional beliefs (including Traditional Chinese Medicine). A Thousand Pieces of Gold was published in 2002, and looks at events under the Qin and Han dynasties through Chinese proverbs and their origins in Sima Qian's history, Shiji.

Children's literature

Yen Mah has written three further books for children and young adults. Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society, her first fiction work, is based on events in World War II, and Along the River, another fictional book based on Chinese history. China, Land of Dragons and Emperors is a non-fiction history book for young adults.

In 2004, Yen Mah was voted fourth on the New Zealand children's best seller lists.^[25]

Falling Leaves Foundation

Adeline Yen Mah is a Founder and President of the Falling Leaves Foundation, whose mission is "to understand the understanding between East and West" and provides funds for the study of Chinese history, language, and culture. There is also an award dedicated to teaching Australia over the Internet for free, and the foundation has established a poetry prize at UCLA. In 2013, she created an iPad game, PinYinPal, for learning Mandarin.^[26]^[27]^[28]^[29] In 2021, the Falling Leaves Foundation donated $30 million toward the construction of a medical research facility at the University of California, Irvine.^[30]

Bibliography

Falling Leaves Return to their Roots (1997)
Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter (1999)
Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Traditions, and Spiritual Wisdom (2000)
A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China's Past through its Proverbs (2002)
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society (2003)
China, Land of Dragons and Emperors (2008)
Along the River: A Chinese Cinderella Novel (2009); also published as Chinese Cinderella: The Mystery of the Song Dynasty Painting

References

^ Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. p. xv. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. p. xi. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ [1], Yan Shuzhen and Huang Qiong-Xian founded the now-defunct Shanghai Women's Commercial and Savings Bank in 1924.
^ ^a ^b Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. pp. 160–161. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d McMillan, Alister (13 November 2005). "Mrs Cinderella". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. [London]: Puffin Books. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. pp. 45–47. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. pp. 229–230. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.
^ ^a ^b Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. pp. 248–251. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. pp. 115–117. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622.
^ Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896.
^ Kilgore, Eva (8 February 2008). "Meet Your Neighbor: Retired science professor Robert Mah turns to abstract art". The Orange County Register.
^ "Cathy Thomas: Feeding Her Muse". The Orange County Register. 8 January 2014.
^ Caliendo, Heather (3 April 2019). "Author Ann Mah on Lost Vintage, Grape Picking and Climate Change". Inspirelle.
^ Kang, Hana. "A Discourse Analysis of Code-Switching in Falling Leaves and Luoyeguigen (落葉歸根)." (Archive) Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). 2008. Volume 2. Edited by Marjorie K.M. Chan and Hana Kang. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University. Pages 999–1010. Available on ProQuest. "Unlike many other translated autobiographies, the writer herself translated her English work (Falling Leaves) into Chinese for Taiwanese readers."
^ "BBC World Service | Learning English | Moving Words". Archived from the original on 29 November 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2011.
^ "Letter to my subscribers". Adeline Yen Mah. Retrieved 3 January 2016.
^ "Huffington Post: PinYinPal iPad app demo". HuffPost. Retrieved 6 January 2016.^{[permanent dead link‍]}
^ Dredge, Stuart (21 January 2013). "30 best iPhone and iPad apps this week". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 27 November 2018. iPad app PinYinPal looks a lot like Words With Friends (well, Scrabble, obviously) but it's actually got even more educational ambitions. It's actually an app for learning Chinese through play, as you use letters of the alphabet to spell traditional Mandarin characters. A clever idea that looks good for anyone learning Chinese.
^ Ritchie, Rene. "PinYinPal makes learning Mandarin fun for kids". iMore.
^ "Falling Leaves Foundation $30 million lead gift to fund innovative UCI medical research building". UC Irvine News. 20 September 2021.

External links

[:03-1] Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. p. xv. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896.

[2] Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. p. xi. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[Grand_Uncle_Gong_Gong-3] [1], Yan Shuzhen and Huang Qiong-Xian founded the now-defunct Shanghai Women's Commercial and Savings Bank in 1924.

[:034-4] Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[5] Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. p. 1. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[:032-6] Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. pp. 160–161. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[:04-7] Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[:044-8] Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. p. 5. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[:1-9] McMillan, Alister (13 November 2005). "Mrs Cinderella". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2022.

[:042-10] Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. p. 6. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896.

[:045-11] Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. pp. 1–2. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[12] Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. pp. 38–39. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[:0-13] Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. [London]: Puffin Books. p. 28. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[14] Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[15] Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. pp. 45–47. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[16] Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. p. 91. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[:0332-17] Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. pp. 229–230. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 2 November 2022.

[:033-18] Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. pp. 248–251. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896.

[19] Mah, Adeline Yen (1998). Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter. New York: Wiley. pp. 115–117. ISBN 978-0-585-36179-6. OCLC 47011622.

[:03322-20] Mah, Adeline Yen (2015). Chinese Cinderella. London: Puffin Books. p. 265. ISBN 978-0-14-135941-0. OCLC 914452896.

[21] Kilgore, Eva (8 February 2008). "Meet Your Neighbor: Retired science professor Robert Mah turns to abstract art". The Orange County Register.

[22] "Cathy Thomas: Feeding Her Muse". The Orange County Register. 8 January 2014.

[23] Caliendo, Heather (3 April 2019). "Author Ann Mah on Lost Vintage, Grape Picking and Climate Change". Inspirelle.

[24] Kang, Hana. "A Discourse Analysis of Code-Switching in Falling Leaves and Luoyeguigen (落葉歸根)." (Archive) Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). 2008. Volume 2. Edited by Marjorie K.M. Chan and Hana Kang. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State University. Pages 999–1010. Available on ProQuest. "Unlike many other translated autobiographies, the writer herself translated her English work (Falling Leaves) into Chinese for Taiwanese readers."

[25] "BBC World Service | Learning English | Moving Words". Archived from the original on 29 November 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2011.

[26] "Letter to my subscribers". Adeline Yen Mah. Retrieved 3 January 2016.

[27] "Huffington Post: PinYinPal iPad app demo". HuffPost. Retrieved 6 January 2016.^{[permanent dead link‍]}

[28] Dredge, Stuart (21 January 2013). "30 best iPhone and iPad apps this week". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 July 2024. Retrieved 27 November 2018. iPad app PinYinPal looks a lot like Words With Friends (well, Scrabble, obviously) but it's actually got even more educational ambitions. It's actually an app for learning Chinese through play, as you use letters of the alphabet to spell traditional Mandarin characters. A clever idea that looks good for anyone learning Chinese.

[29] Ritchie, Rene. "PinYinPal makes learning Mandarin fun for kids". iMore.

[30] "Falling Leaves Foundation $30 million lead gift to fund innovative UCI medical research building". UC Irvine News. 20 September 2021.

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-'''Adeline Yen Mah''' ({{zh-cp|c=馬嚴君玲|p=Mǎ Yán Jūnlíng}}) is a [[Chinese-American]] [[author]] and [[physician]].  She was born in 1937; the exact date of her birth date is unknown, though according to her biography she was later given her father's birthday, [[30 November]]. She grew up in [[Tianjin]], [[Shanghai]] and [[Hong Kong]] with an older sister, Lydia (Jun-pei); three older brothers, Gregory (Zi-jie), Edgar (Zi-lin)and James (Zi-jun) and a younger half brother, Franklin and half sister, Susan (Jun-qing). She has stated in her book ''[[Falling Leaves (memoir)|Falling Leaves]]'' that she has not used the real names of her siblings and their spouses in order to protect their identities; however, she used the real names of her father, step-mother, aunt and husband. Currently she divides her time between southern [[California]] and [[London]]. She is married to Professor [[Robert Mah]] and has two children.
+{{Infobox person
+| name               = Adeline Yen Mah
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+| native_name        = Mǎ Yán Jūnlíng
+| birth_name         = Yen Jun-ling
+| birth_date         = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1937|11|30}}
+| birth_place        = [[Tianjin]], [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|China]]
+| death_date         =
+| nationality        = Chinese
+| education          = St Joseph's Primary School, [[Tianjin]] <br> (1941-1943) <br> Sheng Xin Primary School, [[Shanghai]] <br> (1943-1948) <br> St Joseph's Primary School, [[Tianjin]] <br> (1948-1949) <br> [[Sacred Heart Canossian College]], [[Hong Kong]] <br> (1949-1952)
+| alma_mater         = [[London Hospital Medical College]]
+| occupation         = Author, physician
+| employer           =
+| known_for          = Writing
+| notable_works      = Falling Leaves, Chinese Cinderella
+| title              = Dr. Adeline Yen Mah
+| children           = 2
+| parents            = Joseph Tse-Rung Yen <br> (1907-1988) <br> Ren Yong-Ping <br> (-1937?)
+| website            = {{url|adelineyenmah.com}}
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+* {{marriage|Byron Bai-lun Soon|1964|1970}}
+* {{marriage|Robert A. Mah|1972}}
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+'''Adeline Yen Mah''' ({{zh|t=馬嚴君玲|s=马严君玲|p=Mǎ Yán Jūnlíng}}) (馬嚴君玲) (legal birthday 30 November 1937) is a Chinese-American author and physician. She grew up in [[Tianjin]], Shanghai and Hong Kong, and is known for her autobiography ''Falling Leaves''.
-==Biography==
-Adeline was born in Tianjin, China. Two weeks after her birth, her mother died due to medical complications from the delivery, and Mah was subsequently labeled "[[bad luck]]" by the rest of her family.  One year later, her father, [[Joseph Yen]], married a [[Eurasian (mixed ancestry)|Eurasian]] woman, Jeanne Virginie Prosperi, whom she refers to as Niáng (娘, another term for mother). The woman doted upon Adeline's father and her own two children, while mistreating the rest of the family, particularly Adeline. This childhood conflict, involving emotional abuse and Mah's attempts to gain her father's affection, are detailed in her second novel, ''[[Chinese Cinderella]].''  Throughout her childhood, she was supported by her paternal grandfather and paternal aunt.
+==Life==
-At fourteen, as her autobiographies state, Mah won a play-writing competion, and convinced her father to let her study in [[England]]. She completed a medical degree, and established a medical practice in California. In her free time, however, she continued to write about the tragedies that had overshadowed her life. Her memoir, ''Falling Leaves'', relates her full life story. It begins by relating her emotionally deprived childhood under her stepmother's cruelty, and goes on to recount how, after her father died, her stepmother prevented his children from reading his will until her own death two years later.
+Yen Mah had an older sister called Lydia (Jun-pei) and three older brothers, Gregory (Zi-jie), Edgar (Zi-lin), and James (Zi-jun).<ref name=":03">{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914452896 |title=Chinese Cinderella |publisher=[[Puffin Books]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-14-135941-0 |location=London |page=xv |language=en |oclc=914452896}}</ref> She has stated in ''Falling Leaves'' that she did not use the real names of her siblings and their spouses to protect their identities but she did, however, use the real names of her father, stepmother, aunt and husband, while referring to her paternal grandparents only by the Chinese terms 'Ye Ye'  and 'Nai Nai'.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47011622 |title=Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter |publisher=Wiley |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-585-36179-6 |location=New York |page=xi |language=en |oclc=47011622 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042012/https://search.worldcat.org/title/47011622 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Yen Mah also writes of her grandfather's younger sister (Yan Shuzhen),<ref name="Grand Uncle Gong Gong">[http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-women&month=9602&week=b&msg=j1PLsi3henHow1LyebX0OA&user=&pw=], Yan Shuzhen and Huang Qiong-Xian founded the now-defunct Shanghai Women's Commercial and Savings Bank in 1924.</ref> whom she calls 'Grand Aunt'. She cites Yan Shuzhen as founder and president of the Shanghai Women's Commercial and Savings Bank.<ref name=":034">{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914452896 |title=Chinese Cinderella |publisher=[[Puffin Books]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-14-135941-0 |location=London |pages=104 |language=en |oclc=914452896 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042013/https://search.worldcat.org/title/914452896 |url-status=live }}</ref> Shuzhen's colleagues would often call her 'Gong Gong', meaning ''Grand Uncle''.<ref name=":034" />
-''Falling Leaves'' sold over one million copies worldwide, prompting Mah to quit medicine and devote her time to writing. Her second novel, ''[[Chinese Cinderella]]'', was an abridged version for children of her [[autobiography]], and sold equally well. She has since written ''[[A Thousand Pieces of Gold (memoir)|A Thousand Pieces of Gold]]'', a book which looks at events under the [[Qin dynasty|Qin]] and [[Han dynasty|Han]] dynasties through [[Chinese proverbs]] and their origins in [[Sima Qian]]'s history ''[[Shiji]]''; and ''[[Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society]]'', her first fiction book, based on events in [[World War II]].
+===Yen Mah's Early life===
+The story of Yen Mah's life from 1937 to 1952 is recorded in her autobiography, ''[[Chinese Cinderella]]''.
+Adeline Yen Mah was born in [[Tianjin]], [[Republic of China (1912–1949)|Republic of China]] on 30{{nbsp}}November 1937 to 30-year-old Joseph Yen (Yen Tsi-Rung),<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47011622 |title=Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter |publisher=Wiley |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-585-36179-6 |location=New York |pages=1 |language=en |oclc=47011622 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042012/https://search.worldcat.org/title/47011622 |url-status=live }}</ref> a businessman, and Ren Yong-ping, an accountant.
+Yen Mah's legal birthday is 30 November, as her father did not record her date of birth and instead he gave her his own (a common practice prior to the establishment of the People's Republic of China in 1949).<ref name=":032">{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914452896 |title=Chinese Cinderella |publisher=[[Puffin Books]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-14-135941-0 |location=London |pages=160–161 |language=en |oclc=914452896 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042013/https://search.worldcat.org/title/914452896 |url-status=live }}</ref> Two weeks after Yen Mah's birth, her mother died of [[puerperal fever]] and according to traditional Chinese beliefs, Yen Mah was called 'bad luck' by the rest of her family and because of this, was treated harshly throughout her childhood.<ref name=":04">{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914452896 |title=Chinese Cinderella |publisher=[[Puffin Books]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-14-135941-0 |location=London |pages=3–4 |language=en |oclc=914452896 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042013/https://search.worldcat.org/title/914452896 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+When Yen Mah was one year old in 1938, Joseph Yen married a half-French, half-Chinese (Eurasian) 17-year-old girl named Jeanne Virginie Prosperi.<ref name=":044">{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914452896 |title=Chinese Cinderella |publisher=[[Puffin Books]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-14-135941-0 |location=London |pages=5 |language=en |oclc=914452896 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042013/https://search.worldcat.org/title/914452896 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":1" /> The children referred to her as ''Niang'' (娘 ''niáng'', another Chinese term for mother), and she is called so throughout ''Chinese Cinderella''. They had two children, Franklin and Susan (Jun-qing).<ref name=":042">{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914452896 |title=Chinese Cinderella |publisher=[[Puffin Books]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-14-135941-0 |location=London |pages=6 |language=en |oclc=914452896}}</ref>
+Yen Mah started attending [[kindergarten]] in 1941, aged 4. In her first week, she received a medal for topping her class.<ref name=":045">{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914452896 |title=Chinese Cinderella |publisher=[[Puffin Books]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-14-135941-0 |location=London |pages=1–2 |language=en |oclc=914452896 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042013/https://search.worldcat.org/title/914452896 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+In 1942, Yen Mah's father (Joseph) and stepmother (Jeanne) moved from Tianjin to Shanghai to a house along [[Avenue Joffre]].
+On 2 July 1943, Yen Mah's grandmother, died of a [[stroke]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47011622 |title=Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter |publisher=Wiley |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-585-36179-6 |location=New York |pages=38–39 |language=en |oclc=47011622 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042012/https://search.worldcat.org/title/47011622 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+====Shanghai====
+Six weeks after the death of Nai Nai (Yen Mah's grandmother), in August 1943, Yen Mah and her full siblings joined them at the house afterward.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914452896 |title=Chinese Cinderella |publisher=[[Puffin Books]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-14-135941-0 |location=[London] |pages=28 |language=en |oclc=914452896 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042013/https://search.worldcat.org/title/914452896 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47011622 |title=Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter |publisher=Wiley |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-585-36179-6 |location=New York |pages=42 |language=en |oclc=47011622 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042012/https://search.worldcat.org/title/47011622 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Two months after Yen Mah arrived in Shanghai, her grandfather, her Aunt Baba, her brother James, Franklin and Susan arrived (they delayed moving to observe the hundred days' mourning period for Nai Nai). When Susan arrived, she was too young and too close to Aunt Baba to recognise and approach her mother, Niang, who thus beat her loudly in frustration and anger. Yen Mah intervened, leading Niang to declare that she would never forgive her.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47011622 |title=Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter |publisher=Wiley |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-585-36179-6 |location=New York |pages=45–47 |language=en |oclc=47011622 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042012/https://search.worldcat.org/title/47011622 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+In September 1948, Yen Mah's father and stepmother brought Yen Mah back to [[Tianjin]], where she reattended her first school.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47011622 |title=Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter |publisher=Wiley |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-585-36179-6 |location=New York |pages=91 |language=en |oclc=47011622 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042012/https://search.worldcat.org/title/47011622 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+====Hong Kong====
+The Yen family later moved to Hong Kong when Yen Mah was eleven, and she transferred to [[Sacred Heart Canossian School|Sacred Heart School and Orphanage]] ([[Sacred Heart Canossian College]]). However, in July 1951, aged 13, Yen Mah developed [[pneumonia]].<ref name=":0332">{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914452896 |title=Chinese Cinderella |publisher=[[Puffin Books]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-14-135941-0 |location=London |pages=229–230 |language=en |oclc=914452896 |access-date=2 November 2022 |archive-date=1 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240701042013/https://search.worldcat.org/title/914452896 |url-status=live }}</ref> Her father visited her for the first time in many years.
+Yen Mah's grandfather, Ye Ye, passed away on 27 March 1952 due to complications with [[diabetes]].
+At the age of fourteen, as her autobiography states, Yen Mah won a playwriting competition for her work ''Gone With the Locusts'', and her father allowed her to study in England with James.<ref name=":033">{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914452896 |title=Chinese Cinderella |publisher=[[Puffin Books]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-14-135941-0 |location=London |pages=248–251 |language=en |oclc=914452896}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47011622 |title=Falling leaves : the true story of an unwanted Chinese daughter |publisher=Wiley |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-585-36179-6 |location=New York |pages=115–117 |language=en |oclc=47011622}}</ref><ref name=":1" />
+===University===
+Yen Mah left for the United Kingdom in August 1952, and studied medicine at the [[London Hospital Medical College]], eventually graduating with an [[Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery|M.B.B.S.]] in 1960. Later, she obtained an [[Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom|M.R.C.P.]] from the [[Royal College of Physicians]] in 1962.[https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/mah-adeline-yen-1937] Before the start of her career in the United States, she had a brief relationship with a man named Karl, and practised medicine in a Hong Kong hospital at the behest of her father, who refused to give her air fare when she expressed plans to move to America. She has stated in an interview with the ''[[South China Morning Post]]'' that her father wanted her to become an [[obstetrics|obstetrician]] in the belief that women wanted treatment only from a female doctor,<ref name=":033" /> but as she hated obstetrics she became an [[anaesthesiologist]] instead.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=McMillan |first=Alister |date=13 November 2005 |title=Mrs Cinderella |url=https://www.scmp.com/article/524713/mrs-cinderella |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221116190636/https://www.scmp.com/article/524713/mrs-cinderella |archive-date=16 November 2022 |access-date=16 November 2022 |website=[[South China Morning Post]]}}</ref> Initially, Yen Mah pursued a career in medicine, including establishing a medical practice in California. However, after the success of her autobiography, [[Falling Leaves (memoir)|Falling Leaves]], she transitioned to writing full-time. She recalls that during her childhood, reading was her only escape. The characters in her book and the stories told to her by her teachers and friends inspired her to write her own novels. [https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/mah-adeline-yen-1937]
+===Yen Mah's Later life===
+On 13 May 1988, Yen Mah's father died.<ref name=":03322">{{Cite book |last=Mah |first=Adeline Yen |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/914452896 |title=Chinese Cinderella |publisher=[[Puffin Books]] |year=2015 |isbn=978-0-14-135941-0 |location=London |pages=265 |language=en |oclc=914452896}}</ref> According to her autobiography ''Chinese Cinderella'', her stepmother died in 1990. Her stepmother, Prosperi, refused to let Yen Mah and her biological siblings read her will until her own death. When the wills were read, Yen Mah had mysteriously been disinherited by Prosperi.
+Yen Mah is married to Robert Mah, a professor of [[microbiology]] at [[UCLA]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kilgore |first1=Eva |title=Meet Your Neighbor: Retired science professor Robert Mah turns to abstract art |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2008/02/08/meet-your-neighbor-retired-science-professor-robert-mah-turns-to-abstract-art/ |website=The Orange County Register |date=8 February 2008}}</ref> They have a daughter, Ann, who is the author of five books, including the novel ''The Lost Vintage''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Cathy Thomas: Feeding Her Muse |url=https://www.ocregister.com/2014/01/08/cathy-thomas-feeding-her-muse/ |website=The Orange County Register |date=8 January 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Caliendo |first1=Heather |title=Author Ann Mah on Lost Vintage, Grape Picking and Climate Change |url=https://inspirelle.com/author-ann-mah-on-lost-vintage-grape-picking-and-climate-change/ |website=Inspirelle |date=3 April 2019}}</ref> Yen Mah also has a son from a previous marriage.{{cn|date=November 2024}}
+==Literary career==
+Yen Mah's autobiography, ''[[Falling Leaves (memoir)|Falling Leaves]]'', was published in 1997, shortly after [[Jung Chang]]'s memoir ''[[Wild Swans]]''.<ref name=":1" /> It made the [[New York Times Bestseller list]], selling over a million copies worldwide and translated into 22 languages.The success of ''Falling Leaves'' prompted Yen Mah to quit medicine and devote her time to writing.
+''Falling Leaves'' was translated into Chinese for the Taiwan market. It was titled ''Luoyeguigen'' (T: 落葉歸根, S: 落叶归根, P: ''Luòyèguīgēn''). Unlike other cases of memoirs, the novel was translated by the original writer.<ref>Kang, Hana. "[http://naccl.osu.edu/sites/naccl.osu.edu/files/66_kang-h.pdf A Discourse Analysis of Code-Switching in Falling Leaves and Luoyeguigen (落葉歸根)]." ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160304131923/http://naccl.osu.edu/sites/naccl.osu.edu/files/66_kang-h.pdf Archive]) Proceedings of the 20th North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-20). 2008. Volume 2. Edited by Marjorie K.M. Chan and Hana Kang. Columbus, Ohio: [[Ohio State University]]<!--Wikipedians do not use "The" as part of Ohio State's name; it is considered a marketing gimmick, and routinely deleted.-->. Pages 999–1010. Available on [[ProQuest]]. "Unlike many other translated autobiographies, the writer herself translated her English work (Falling Leaves) into Chinese for Taiwanese readers."</ref>
+Her second work, ''[[Chinese Cinderella]]'', was an abridged version of her autobiography (until she leaves for England aged 14), and has sold over one million copies worldwide. It received numerous awards, including
+The Children's Literature Council of Southern California in 2000 for Compelling Autobiography; and the Lamplighter's Award from National Christian School Association for Contribution to Exceptional Children's Literature in June 2002.
+Published in 2001, her third book, ''Watching the Tree'', is about [[Chinese Philosophy|Chinese philosophy]] and traditional beliefs (including [[Traditional Chinese Medicine]]). ''A Thousand Pieces of Gold'' was published in 2002, and looks at events under the [[Qin dynasty|Qin]] and [[Han dynasty|Han]] dynasties through [[Chinese proverbs]] and their origins in [[Sima Qian]]'s history, ''[[Shiji]]''.
+===Children's literature===
+Yen Mah has written three further books for children and [[young adult literature|young adult]]s. ''[[Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society]]'', her first fiction work, is based on events in [[World War II]], and ''Along the River'', another fictional book based on [[History of China|Chinese history]]. ''China, Land of Dragons and Emperors'' is a non-fiction history book for young adults.
+In 2004, Yen Mah was voted fourth on the New Zealand children's best seller lists.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/movingwords/celebritychoice/adelineyenmah.shtml | title=BBC World Service &#124; Learning English &#124; Moving Words | access-date=18 June 2011 | archive-date=29 November 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121129141324/http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/movingwords/celebritychoice/adelineyenmah.shtml | url-status=live }}</ref>
+==Falling Leaves Foundation==
+Adeline Yen Mah is a Founder and President of the Falling Leaves Foundation, whose mission is "to understand the understanding between East and West" and provides funds for the study of Chinese history, language, and culture. There is also an award dedicated to teaching Australia over the Internet for free, and the foundation has established a poetry prize at [[UCLA]]. In 2013, she created an [[iPad]] game, PinYinPal, for learning Mandarin.<ref>{{Cite web|title = Letter to my subscribers|url = http://www.adelineyenmah.com/2013/letter-to-my-subscribers|website = Adeline Yen Mah|access-date = 2016-01-03|language = en-US}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://video.huffingtonpost.co.uk/pinyinpal-ipad-app-demo-517661076 |title=Huffington Post: PinYinPal iPad app demo |work=[[HuffPost]]|access-date=2016-01-06 }}{{dead link|date=June 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2013/jan/21/best-iphone-ipad-apps-21jan13|title= 30 best iPhone and iPad apps this week|last1= Dredge|first1= Stuart|date= 21 January 2013|newspaper= [[The Guardian]]|quote= iPad app PinYinPal looks a lot like Words With Friends (well, Scrabble, obviously) but it's actually got even more educational ambitions. It's actually an app for learning Chinese through play, as you use letters of the alphabet to spell traditional Mandarin characters. A clever idea that looks good for anyone learning Chinese.|access-date= 27 November 2018|archive-date= 1 July 2024|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20240701043027/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/appsblog/2013/jan/21/best-iphone-ipad-apps-21jan13|url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.imore.com/pinyinpal-makes-learning-mandarin-fun-kids|title= PinYinPal makes learning Mandarin fun for kids|last1= Ritchie|first1= Rene|website= [[iMore]]}}</ref> In 2021, the Falling Leaves Foundation donated $30 million toward the construction of a medical research facility at the [[University of California, Irvine]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Falling Leaves Foundation $30 million lead gift to fund innovative UCI medical research building |url=https://news.uci.edu/2021/09/20/falling-leaves-foundation-30-million-lead-gift-to-fund-innovative-uci-medical-research-building/ |website=UC Irvine News |date=20 September 2021}}</ref>
 ==Bibliography==
-* ''[[Falling Leaves (memoir)|Falling Leaves]]'' (1997)
+* ''Falling Leaves Return to their Roots'' (1997) <!--Note the current redirect at article Falling Leaves (memoir) should point this book-->
-* ''[[Chinese Cinderella]]: The True Story of an Unwanted Daughter'' (1999)
+* ''[[Chinese Cinderella|Chinese Cinderella: The Secret Story of an Unwanted Daughter]]'' (1999)
-* ''[[Watching the Tree]]: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Traditions, and Spiritual Wisdom'' (2000)
+* ''Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Traditions, and Spiritual Wisdom'' (2000)
-* ''[[A Thousand Pieces of Gold (memoir)|A Thousand Pieces of Gold]]: A Memoir of China's Past through its Proverbs'' (2002)
+* ''A Thousand Pieces of Gold: A Memoir of China's Past through its Proverbs'' (2002)
-* ''[[Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society]]'' (2005)
+* ''[[Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society]]'' (2003)
+* ''China, Land of Dragons and Emperors'' (2008)
+* ''Along the River: A Chinese Cinderella Novel'' (2009); also published as ''[[Chinese Cinderella: The Mystery of the Song Dynasty Painting]]''
+==References==
+{{reflist}}
+==Further reading==
+* "[https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=114025 Cinderella's Wisdom An interview with Adeline Yen Mah]." [[Amazon.co.uk]] ([https://web.archive.org/web/20160305021700/http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html?ie=UTF8&docId=114025 Archive])
-==External Link==
+==External links==
 * [http://www.adelineyenmah.com/ Official website]
+* [http://www.chinesecharacteraday.com/ Chinese Character A Day]
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