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cbaker
Since: Nov, 2015
When I was in, maybe 4th or 6th grade, we read this memoir by some American woman who had spent a portion of her childhood in China, where her parents were, I think, missionaries, but might have been involved in business or something. The family had Chinese servants, and the clearest memory I have is how one of the servants was a communist, but the author would notice how he stuck his pinky out when drinking tea.
The most plausible person to have been the author, if I were to guess, would be Pearl S Buck, who was living in China at about the right age and time frame (early 1900s) but I can't easily find either of her autobiographies to see if they jive with my memories of the book, and from descriptions of her autobiographies on the internet, either she's someone else, or I read a heavily abridged version of one of them.