Adeline yen mah

Falling Leaves by Adeline Yen Mah (Class 2019)

By sba2

  • Ye Ye and Grandmother married

  • Aunt Baba was born

  • Father was born

  • Dr Sun Yat Sen stopped the custom of foot-binding

  • Grand Aunt opened her own bank, the Shanghai Women's Bank

  • Father finished school and joined the family in Tianjin and was employed as an office boy in Ye Ye's company.

  • Father and Miss Ren married

  • Adeline was born and her mother died two weeks after her birth

  • Japanese attacked Tianjin and Beijing

  • Adeline's father remarried.

    The children called their new mother 'Niang'.

  • Franklin was born

  • A flood hit Tianjin and many people were killed

  • Susan was born

  • Adeline started at St Joseph's school

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • James and Adeline sailed to England

  • Franklin was dead

  • Adeline married Byron in New York City

  • Father opened a factory in Nigeria

    Father made Gregory manager of the Nigeria factory

  • Adeline was expecting a baby

  • Gregory married Matilda

  • Red Guards hit Miss Chien and attacked Aunt BaBa

  • Adeline and Byron's son, Roger, was born

  • 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

  • Father and Niang were on a world trip and decided to visit Adeline

  • Adeline and Byron divorced

  • Adeline remarried a man called Robert Mah

    they had a daughter

  • Susan was disowned

  • Grand Aunt died

  • Mao Zedong died

  • Adeline invited Father and Niang to Stanford University for a medical examination and to stay with her in her new home

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.