Isn't it funny, that at the end of it all, I should be sitting here - that now this is mine?" "They never allowed me to spend a single night here. "This was the flat where my parents lived in Hong Kong," she says, her voice suddenly thin and shaky. "Do you want an expresso?" she offers as a servant moves into view.īut appearances quickly dissolve as Mah speaks of her past. Mah, an immaculately coiffured woman with heavy ropes of gold jewelry dangling from her neck and slender wrists, clearly delights in her place in the world. The panorama that stretches before her enormous windows - a sparkling harbor, leafy tree tops and gleaming skyscrapers - is one of those everyday pleasures reserved for Hong Kong's privileged. The 59-year-old doctor sits in a sun-filled, prim flat on a peaceful boulevard winding up Hong Kong's Peak. The diary of an unwanted daughter becomes a must-read for Hong Kong socialitesī Y ALL APPEARANCES LIFE has been kind to Adeline Yen Mah. From Our Correspondent: Hirohito and the WarĪ conversation with biographer Herbert Bixįrom Our Correspondent: A Rough Road Aheadīad news for the Philippines - and some others
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