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Ye Ye and Grandmother married
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Aunt Baba was born
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Father was born
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Dr Sun Yat Sen stopped the custom of foot-binding
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Grand Aunt opened her own bank, the Shanghai Women's Bank
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Father finished school and joined the family in Tianjin and was employed as an office boy in Ye Ye's company.
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Father and Miss Ren married
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Adeline was born and her mother died two weeks after her birth
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Japanese attacked Tianjin and Beijing
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Adeline's father remarried.
The children called their new mother 'Niang'. -
Franklin was born
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A flood hit Tianjin and many people were killed
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Susan was born
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Adeline started at St Joseph's school
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The Japanese were taking close interest in Father company
And then farther just ' disappear' the notice -
Grandmother died
Grandmother had a headache. Ye Ye said that Grandmother was ill. Doctors were called but it was too late. -
Adeline left Tianjin with Lydia, Gregory and Edgar
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The Japanese lost the war and left China
a war began within the country between the Kuomintang and the Communists. -
Father and Niang took Adeline north to Tianjin
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Lydia married Samuel
Lydia moved to Tianjin after the wedding -
Adeline's family moved to Hong Kong
her father built up his business again -
The Schilling family and Adeline boarded a ship for Hong Kong
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Adeline won a play-writing competition
Her father allowed her to study in London as a result. -
Lydia escaped from Tianjin to Taiwan
with her husband Samuel and his parents -
Beijing and Tianjin were taken by the Communists
Aunt Reine took Adeline out of school -
Adeline became ill
Her father visited her at lunchtime one day -
Adeline joined a boarding school
The Sacred Heart School in Hong Kong -
Ye Ye died
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James and Adeline sailed to England
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Franklin was dead
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Adeline married Byron in New York City
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Father opened a factory in Nigeria
Father made Gregory manager of the Nigeria factory -
Adeline was expecting a baby
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Gregory married Matilda
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Red Guards hit Miss Chien and attacked Aunt BaBa
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Adeline and Byron's son, Roger, was born
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Edgar moved to Canada and decided to join Adeline in California and asked her to find work at her hospital but Adeline did not help him
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Father and Niang were on a world trip and decided to visit Adeline
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Adeline and Byron divorced
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Adeline remarried a man called Robert Mah
they had a daughter -
Susan was disowned
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Grand Aunt died
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Mao Zedong died
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Adeline invited Father and Niang to Stanford University for a medical examination and to stay with her in her new home
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Adeline received a letter from Niang
Niang informed her that her father 's health was not good -
Adeline went to Shanghai to visit Aunt Baba
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Father died
it is 40 years later when the Yen's family were all together
Lydia wanted to end the relationship with Adeline -
Niang refused Adeline to come when she had cancer and in hospital
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Niang died
Adeline found many letters written by Lydia, who described her as a cruel, selfish and mean woman -
Aunt Baba died
She died when she is 89 years old.