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03703aim a2200613 i 4500 001 4135DBDA118B11EEB9895B702CECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230623010025 007 sd fsngnnmmned 008 221210s2023 nyunnnne f n eng d 020 $a 1797150332 020 $a 9781797150338 035 $a (OCoLC)1368013459 040 $a ETC $b eng $c ETC $d OCLCF $d TOH $d TEF $d BLACP $d CoBoFLC $d SILO 043 $a a-cc--- 050 4 $a PS3569.E3334 $b L33 2023ab 082 04 $a 813/.54 $2 23/eng/20230510 100 1 $a See, Lisa, $e author. 245 10 $a Lady Tan's circle of women $h [compact disc] / $c Lisa See. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [New York, NY] : $b Simon & Schuster Audio, $c 2023. 300 $a 11 audio discs (13 hr., 1 min.) : $b digital ; $c 4 3/4 in. 306 $a 130100. 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. 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? 500 $a Title from container. 511 0 $a Read by Jennifer Lim & Justin Chien. 650 0 $a Women physicians $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Aristocracy (Social class) $z China $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Female friendship $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Arranged marriage $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women $z China $x Social conditions $y 15th century $v Fiction. 651 0 $a China $x History $y Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Sound recording. $2 local. 655 0 $a Audiobooks. 700 1 $a Lim, Jennifer, $e narrator. 700 1 $a Chien, Justin, $e narrator. 941 $a 15 945 $a cdab 952 $l NYPE343 $d 20240316010305.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20231102013757.0 952 $l VKPE334 $d 20231028024555.0 952 $l SXPC124 $d 20231019031653.0 952 $l ZYPE837 $d 20231004013141.0 952 $l KWPE446 $d 20230929010813.0 952 $l CHPB482 $d 20230919011803.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20230909012448.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20230808011452.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20230805010256.0 952 $l LAPH975 $d 20230708011646.0 952 $l YTPG232 $d 20230706011713.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230706010753.0 952 $l SHPC094 $d 20230623010622.0 952 $l HRPE845 $d 20230623010310.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4135DBDA118B11EEB9895B702CECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search