1st 10% of the novel

• Chung Yu-i is i a family of fourteen
• eight brothers and four sisters
• his is the sixth out of all her siblings
• She was married at fifteen and divorced by eighteen
• lived in New York City
• In her childhood years she had a very wealthy family.
• She was born to listen to her father and married to listen to her husband.
• her father was a very good doctor, he was never paid being a doctor evne though he did have a donation box outside of his office.
• When her life was very sad, she could not kill herself.She had to honor her family and stand on her own 2 feet
• She will always have to inform her parentsw where she was going or do
• she was taught to not talk back to her father or ever say "you" to her father
• famous chinese saying that yu-i's mom told her "If the wife is two year older, then the rice will be everywhere
• she has 2 name Yu-i abd Chia-fen
• Chia- generation name all brothers, sisters, and cousins have that as their first letter of their name
• oldest brother is chang chia Pao, second older brother is Chang Chia sen, fourth brother is Chang chia Ao
• Yu-i- was her informal name Yu-i means goodness righteousness.
• born in the year of 1900
• She favour her second brother Chia chia Sen
• her brothers were famous, because of their education sucess second brother was a philosopher and the fourth brother was a chairman of the Bank of China
• she was to bound her feet into a cresent shape to impress the empress: the toes of the feet are taught to curve gently around the sole of te foot until they touch you heel. You'll end up walking on your heel and the knuckles of your toes. the main thing of wrapping it is to break the feet bones slowly , which takes years and years to do that.

What i know

Chung yu-i is a women who lives in a strict and controlable society. Where many women had no rights during that time of generation. This young women who had struggles and exprience for the independence against the traditiions as old as China, love and dissappointment, of a Chinese being an American.