(b. 1937– )
Chinese author and physician
Adeline Yen Mah
Falling leaves return to their roots.
Falling Leaves: The Memoir of an Unwanted Chinese Daughter (London: M. Joseph, 1997), 271.
People with yuan fen are destined to like one another;
Friendship develops even if a thousand miles apart.
But should yuan fen be absent between two individuals,
They will remain strangers despite sitting face-to-face.
Chinese Cinderella and the Secret Dragon Society (New York: HarperCollins, 2005), 25.