The Question and Answer section for Chinese Cinderella is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Tianjin was not a pleasant place for Adeline to grow up in. A year after her mother’s death, her father remarried a “seventeen year old Eurasian beauty fourteen years his junior” (4) of French and Chinese ancestry. Soon after, they had two...
I pretty much blame the father for this although the others were complacent. It was father's idea to test the dog's obedience on the duckling. Of course I feel badly about what happened, I can't stand it when animals get hurt in books...
Adeline's eldest brother is distinct from the other three in that he often shows a maturity corresponding to his position, albeit interposed with flashes of malice that corrode any of Adeline's built-up good will. Big Brother, along with his other...
