Author of bestselling 'Falling Leaves' weaves together for the same audience her own personal experiences with the best of Chinese philosophy. Adeline Yen Mah, whose autobiography 'Falling Leaves' is an international bestseller, here interweaves her own experiences with her views on Chinese thought and wisdom to create an illuminating and highly personal guide for Western readers. Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, and through the conversations and wisdom of her grandfather and aunt learnt a great deal of traditional Chinese thought, history and religion. Through her father's second marriage to a Eurasian woman, and their subsequent move to Hong Kong, she learnt more about the Chinese attitudes to business and to family, and the strength of the Chinese in exile. Since living in London and California, Adeline Yen Mah has studied Chinese thought, looking at both the strengths and weaknesses which it gives those who follow it and now, in 'Watching the Tree', she takes us on a journey through the Chinese language, religions and history, using both Chinese proverbs and her own experiences, to bring to us an understanding of the richness of China and the ways that we can take and use some of the wisdom for ourselves in the West.
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Adeline Yen Mah was born in Tianjin, studied in London, and now works and lives in California. She is married with two children.
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if you want to understand Chinese, this is the book for you,
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This book is so chinese. i mean if you want to understand why we behave the way we do. this is the book for you. our obedience towards our parents. our family value over anything except our obedience of our parents. why in general chinese do not care about social cause. why our public places are in general not so clean.our love with food. our view towards education. i can so understand the terrible stepmom the author has. in fact, my best friend's mom was in the same situation. Also the case where her sibling conspired to deprive her inheritance, the same situation with my best friend's dad family. Although the kids in China are in different situation than my time. Since they have no siblings. (it is going to be so strange in 100 years if this continue, no family when family value is central to the Chinese culture) the author is a doctor from oxford. she mentioned our chinese herbal med culture. i think after reading this if you ever go to china or Hong Kong. try out our herbal tea. we have a saying " the more bitter it is, the more beneficial to you" you would then understand why we have such faith in our herbs. they have been tested for thousands of years! I look very young for my age. I am close to 40 but people still ask to see my ID when i buy wine. i have never had any plastic surgery or any frequent beauty salon visit. i think i attribute this to my chinese diet , chinese herbs and Tea. this should be an eye-opener to non-asian culture for foreigners. I highly recommend this little book.
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