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Adeline Yen Mah is a Chinese American author and physician. She grew up in Tianjin, Shanghai and Hong Kong.
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Adeline's mother died two weeks later after her birth due to complications bought on by the delivery, and in Chinese culture she is considered as bad luck ever since.
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Adeline's father remarried to a lady who has little affection for his children. She was a 17-year-old Eurasian beauty 14 years his junior
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She topped her class and won a badge award with a certificate.
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Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and occupied the whole TianJin
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She convinced her father and went to a medical school in England, hoping to become a doctor.