| International Standard Book Number |
1398526053 (international)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781398526051 (international)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781398526075 ebook
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781982117085 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1982117087 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781398526068 paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
1398526061
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813/.54 23/eng/20230519
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| Personal Name |
See, Lisa, author.
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| Title Statement |
Lady Tan's circle of women : a novel / Lisa See.
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| Edition Statement |
First Scribner hardcover edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Ã2023
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Scribner, 2023.
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| Physical Description |
352 pages ; 24 cm
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| Content Type |
text txt rdacontent
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| Media Type |
unmediated n rdamedia
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| Carrier Type |
volume nc rdacarrier
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"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?" -- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject-Chronological Term |
1368-1644 fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women Physicians. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women Fiction. China
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Female friendship fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Female friendship Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Midwives fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Midwives Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sex role fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sex role Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Arranged marriage fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Arranged marriage Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Aristocracy (Social class) fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Aristocracy (Social class) Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women physicians fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women physicians Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Historical. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Literary. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Femmes Romans, nouvelles, etc. Chine
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
FICTION / Asian American. bisacsh
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Femmes mâedecins Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Amitiâe fâeminine Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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Mariage arrangâe Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Rãole selon le sexe Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Sages-femmes Romans, nouvelles, etc.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Aristocracy (social class) Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Females Friendship Fiction. sears
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
China fast
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
China Fiction. History Ming dynasty, 1368-1644
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Chine Romans, nouvelles, etc. Histoire 1368-1644 (Dynastie des Ming)
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fiction fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. gsafd
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction. lcgft
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History fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels fast
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels. lcgft
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romans. rvmgf
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