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02882aam a2200361M 4500 001 0D79E7EA44CB11EF8C534DE949ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240718010035 008 231021t20242023xx e 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781982117092 020 $a 1982117095 035 $a (OCoLC)1405187017 040 $a YDX $b eng $c YDX $d BDX $d YZS $d OCLCO $d FM0 $d OCLCO $d FM0 $d MUX $d IKG $d SILO 100 1 $a See, Lisa 245 10 $a Lady Tan's circle of women $c Lisa See. 250 $a First Scribner trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Scribner, $c 2024. 300 $a 352 pages : $c 21 cm 500 $a Includes topics and questtions for discussion. 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, 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 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? A captivating story of women helping each other, Lady Tan's Circle of Women is a triumphant reimagining of the life of one person who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today. 650 0 $a Mother and child 650 0 $a American literature 650 0 $a Midwives 650 0 $a Women $z China $x Social conditions $y 15th century 650 0 $a Arranged marriage 650 0 $a Sex role 651 0 $a China $x History $y Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 650 0 $a Literary form 650 6 $a Historical fiction 941 $a 1 952 $l EZPE755 $d 20240718010136.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=0D79E7EA44CB11EF8C534DE949ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b L3MInitiate Another SILO Locator Search