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Item Information       Summary     More Content     More by this author     See, Lisa, author.     Subjects     Women physicians -- Fiction.     Aristocracy (Social class) -- China -- Fiction.     Female friendship -- Fiction.     Arranged marriage -- Fiction.     Women -- China -- Social conditions -- 15th century -- 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 [compact disc] / Lisa See. by See, Lisa, author. [New York, NY] : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2023] Subjects Women physicians -- Fiction.   Aristocracy (Social class) -- China -- Fiction.   Female friendship -- Fiction.   Arranged marriage -- Fiction.   Women -- China -- Social conditions -- 15th century -- Fiction.   China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781797150338 : 1797150332 Series:  Audioworks. Description:  11 audio discs (13 hr., 1 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. Requests:  0 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?   Copy/Holding information No Item Information

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