An ocean apart, a world away

Description:

Despite the odds facing her decision to become a doctor in 1920's Nanking, China, teenaged Yanyan leaves her family to study at Cornell University where, along with hard work, she finds prejudice and loneliness as well as friendship and a new sense of accomplishment.

subjects: Juvenile fiction,  Chinese,  Cornell University,  Prejudices,  Fiction,  Interpersonal relations,  History,  Achinese

Places: New York (State),  China

Times: 20th century