Lady Tan's circle of women
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| North Bay Public Library | TBCD See | 33874005571707 | AV - Talking Book | Available | - |
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- ISBN: 9781797150338
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Physical Description:
11 audio discs (13 hr., 1 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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- Edition: Unabridged edition.
- Publisher: [New York, NY] : Simon & Schuster Audio, 2023.
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| General Note: | Title from container. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Jennifer Lim and Justin Chien. |
| Summary, etc.: | According to Confucius, "an educated woman is a ... Read More |
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| Subject: | Arranged marriage Fiction Women China Fiction |
| Genre: | Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Audiobooks. |
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?
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