https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug Made by Tom Charleson en-us 2016-10-13 03:24:46 UTC 2025-12-24 02:06:12 UTC hello@padlet.com tom_charleson https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/130321731 2016-10-13 03:29:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/130321731 tom_charleson https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/130321761 Is half French, half Chinese. 
" Father always introduced her to his friends as his french wife though she was actually half french, half Chinese."]]> 2016-10-13 03:30:24 UTC https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/130321761 tom_charleson https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/130321932  Favours her real children over the other children. Niang is the powerful, mean de facto of the household. ]]> 2016-10-13 03:32:10 UTC https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/130321932 tom_charleson https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/130321964 Married Father 1 year after Mama's death "A year later father re married. Our step mother, whom we called Niang, was a seventeen year old Eurasian beauty fourteen years his junior." Pg 4
"One year after their wedding, they had a son (Fourth Brother) followed by daughter (Little Sister) there were now seven of us: five children from Father's first wife, and two from our stepmother." 
Died 1990 ]]> 2016-10-13 03:32:27 UTC https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/130321964 tom_charleson https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/130322016 Scares Adeline and the other children by terrorising them. Gives the Yen family European names. In Chinese Cinderella she is ultimately the antagonist towards Adeline. ]]> 2016-10-13 03:32:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/130322016 tom_charleson https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/130322070 2016-10-13 03:33:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/130322070 tom_charleson https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/131969745 In the book we don't  know what Niang's personality is. Although she is a very negative person.]]> 2016-10-20 03:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/131969745 lou_polwarth https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/131970327 Niang establishes her as the de facto head of the household by the time the family moves to Beijing, setting a clear separation between her natural born children and her adopted ones.
" Sit down, all of you! And welcome to our shanghai home! ... you are not aloud to enter any of the rooms on our without our permission!" Pg 27
"It was grandmother Nai Nai who told us to call her Niang, another Chinese term for 'mother'". Pg 4-5]]> 2016-10-20 03:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/131970327 lou_polwarth https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/132236750 Niang is the second wife of father as first mother passed away giving birth to Adeline.  She is now Adeline's 'step mother' but doesn't act like it. She has two children of her own, Franklin and Susan who she largely favoured over her step children. when she was first reunited with her daughter however Susan (youngest daughter) was very hesitant towards her. "Don't want you! little sister said directly to Niang ... Don't like you!. Go away! ... Aunt Baba! Aunt Baba! Tell her to go away!"

]]> 2016-10-20 22:27:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/132236750 pat_mcnamara1 https://padlet.com/tom_charleson/f0sm1p9vv3ug/wish/132238210 "She was almost as tall as father,  stood very straight and dressed only in French clothes - many of which came from Paris. Her thick, wavy, black hair never had a curl out of place. her large, dark brown eyes were fringed with long, thick lashes. She wore heavy make up, expensive French perfume and many diamonds and pearls." Pg 4 

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