Biography - General & Miscellaneous, Abuse & Violence, Family Abuse & Violence, General & Miscellaneous Chinese History

Shadows in the Lotus Pool

Name: Shadows in the Lotus Pool
Author: Gwen Chen
ISBN: 9781609109202

by Gwen Chen, Rudi A. Carboni

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Overview

Deng Wen-yi, a major general at age 22, has no time for his motherless daughter, Yuan-yu. He is catapulted into a series of adventures and misadventures that brings humiliations and triumphs in his close, tempestuous relationship with China's president Chiang Kai-shek. The author recounts her childhood as an unwanted child, neglected, maltreated and molested. The story of father and daughter unfolds against the background of revolutionary China of the mid-1900s.

About the Author, Gwen Chen

Gwen Chen, born in 1937 in China, was motherless at two, unwanted by her stepmother and ignored by her busy father. Her uncle adopted and molested her. Later Gwen became a top student and graduated from the prestigious Taiwan University. In U.S. she earned a Ph.D. and a happy life.