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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     See, Lisa, author.     Subjects     Women physicians -- Fiction.     Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction.     Female friendship -- Fiction.     Midwives -- Fiction.     Women -- China -- Fiction.     Arranged marriage -- Fiction.     Sex role -- Fiction.     China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      See, Lisa, author.       by title:      Lady Tan's circle of...         MARC Display

Lady Tan's circle of women [large type] : a novel / Lisa See. by See, Lisa, author. Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2023. Subjects Women physicians -- Fiction.   Aristocracy (Social class) -- Fiction.   Female friendship -- Fiction.   Midwives -- Fiction.   Women -- China -- Fiction.   Arranged marriage -- Fiction.   Sex role -- Fiction.   China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781638087748 (large print : hardback : alk. paper) : 1638087741 (large print : hardback : alk. paper) Description:  549 pages (large print) ; 23 cm Edition:  Center Point Large Print edition. Requests:  1 Summary:  "According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a worthless woman," but Tan Yunxian--born into an elite family, yet haunted by death, separations, and loneliness--is being raised by her grandparents to be of use. Her grandmother is one of only a handful of female doctors in China, and she teaches Yunxian the pillars of Chinese medicine, the Four Examinations--looking, listening, touching, and asking--something a man can never do with a female patient. From a young age, Yunxian learns about women's illnesses, many of which relate to childbearing, alongside a young midwife-in-training, Meiling. The two girls find fast friendship and a mutual purpose--despite the prohibition that a doctor should never touch blood while a midwife comes in frequent contact with it--and they vow to be forever friends, sharing in each other's joys and struggles. No mud, no lotus, they tell themselves: from adversity beauty can bloom. But when Yunxian is sent into an arranged marriage, her mother-in-law forbids her from seeing Meiling and from helping the women and girls in the household. Yunxian is to act like a proper wife--embroider bound-foot slippers, pluck instruments, recite poetry, give birth to sons, and stay forever within the walls of the family compound, the Garden of Fragrant Delights. How might a woman like Yunxian break free of these traditions, go on to treat women and girls from every level of society, and lead a life of such importance that many of her remedies are still used five centuries later? How might the power of friendship support or complicate these efforts?"--Provided by publisher.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status Due Date   Mililani Public Library Large Type LT See Checked out 07/08/2024 Add Copy to MyList North Kohala Public Library Large Type LT See Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Pearl City Public Library Large Type LT See Checked In   Add Copy to MyList Waianae Public Library Large Type LT See Transit   Add Copy to MyList More Results: Prev 1 2

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