HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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
Hawaii Kai Public Library
Large Type
LT See
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hawaii State Library
Large Type
LT See
Checked out
06/26/2024
Add Copy to MyList
Hilo Public Library
Large Type
LT See
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kailua-Kona Public Library
Large Type
LT See
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Kaimuki Public Library
Adult New Books
LT See
Checked out
07/02/2024
Add Copy to MyList
Kalihi-Palama Public Library
Large Type
LT See
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Library For The Blind and Print Disabled
Large Type
LT SEE
Item being held
Add Copy to MyList
Liliha Public Library
Large Type
LT See
Checked out
07/10/2024
Add Copy to MyList
Makawao Public Library
Large Type
LT See
Checked out
06/25/2024
Add Copy to MyList
McCully-Moiliili Public Library
Large Type
LT See
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
More Results:
1
2
Next
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.