Lady Tan's circle of women /
See, Lisa,
Lady Tan's circle of women / Lisa See. - Unabridged. - 11 audio discs (13 hr., 1 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. - 130100
Title from container.
Read by Jennifer Lim & Justin Chien.
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?
9781797150338 1797150332
Simon & Schuster, Customer Operations 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075-7500 SAN 200-2442 60gvz6 Blackstone Publishing 40gvz6 Blackstone Publishing
Women physicians--Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class)--China--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Arranged marriage--Fiction.
Women--Social conditions--China--15th century--Fiction.
China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644--Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Lady Tan's circle of women / Lisa See. - Unabridged. - 11 audio discs (13 hr., 1 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. - 130100
Title from container.
Read by Jennifer Lim & Justin Chien.
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?
9781797150338 1797150332
Simon & Schuster, Customer Operations 100 Front st, Riverside, NJ, USA, 08075-7500 SAN 200-2442 60gvz6 Blackstone Publishing 40gvz6 Blackstone Publishing
Women physicians--Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class)--China--Fiction.
Female friendship--Fiction.
Arranged marriage--Fiction.
Women--Social conditions--China--15th century--Fiction.
China--History--Ming dynasty, 1368-1644--Fiction.
Audiobooks.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.