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Lady Tan's circle of women [sound recording] / Lisa See.

See, Lisa, (author.). Lim, Jennifer, (narrator.). Chien, Justin, (narrator.).

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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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  • ISBN: 9781797150338
  • ISBN: 1797150332
  • Physical Description: 11 audio discs (approximately 13 hours, 15 minutes) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Simon & Schuster Audio, [2023]

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Compact discs.
Subtitle from container.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by Jennifer Lim & Justin Chien.

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Women physicians > Fiction.
Aristocracy (Social class) > China > Fiction.
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Midwives > Fiction.
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Women > China > Social conditions > 15th century > Fiction.
Women physicians > Fiction.
Women > China > Fiction.
Chinese women > Fiction.
Women's friendships.
Women.
Womyn.
Gender roles.
China > History > Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 > Fiction.
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Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.

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