Lady Tan's circle of women a novel [LP]
"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...
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| Format: | Books Print Book Large Print |
| Language: | English |
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Thorndike, Maine :
Center Point Large Print,
2023.
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| Edition: | Center Point Large Print edition. |
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| 100 | 1 | |a See, Lisa, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Lady Tan's circle of women : |b a novel [LP] / |c Lisa See. |
| 250 | |a Center Point Large Print edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Thorndike, Maine : |b Center Point Large Print, |c 2023. | |
| 264 | 4 | |c Ã2023 | |
| 300 | |a 549 pages (large print) ; |c 23 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 340 | |n large print. |2 rdafs | ||
| 500 | |a Regular print version previously published by Scribner. | ||
| 500 | |a Includes author's note with background information. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references. | ||
| 520 | |a "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."-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Women physicians |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Aristocracy (Social class) |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Female friendship |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Midwives |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women |z China |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Arranged marriage |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Sex role |v Fiction. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a China |x History |y Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 |v Fiction. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Women physicians |v Fiction. | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Historical fiction. |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Large print books. |2 lcgft | |
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| 949 | |a schlow |b SAFICLP |c See [LP] |d i |e 39635104491700 |f 750268 |g loc |j 06/27/2023 | ||
| 999 | |a 481062 | ||
