| Edition |
Unabridged. |
| Description |
11 audio discs (13 hr., 1 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
130100 |
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digital rdatr |
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optical rdarm |
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1.4 m/s |
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CD audio |
| Note |
Title from container. |
| Performer |
Read by Jennifer Lim & Justin Chien. |
| Summary |
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? |
| Subject |
Women physicians -- Fiction.
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Aristocracy (Social class) -- China -- Fiction.
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Female friendship -- Fiction.
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Arranged marriage -- Fiction.
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Women -- China -- Social conditions -- 15th century -- Fiction.
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China -- History -- Ming dynasty, 1368-1644 -- Fiction.
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FICTION / Historical / General.
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FICTION / Asian American.
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FICTION / Literary.
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| Genre/Form |
Audiobooks.
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Domestic fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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Domestic fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726589
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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Historical fiction. (OCoLC)fst01726640
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| Added Author |
Lim, Jennifer, narrator.
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Chien, Justin, narrator.
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| ISBN |
9781797150338 |
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1797150332 |
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