Lady Tan's Circle of Women A Novel
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
06.06.2023
Verlag
Scribner USASeitenzahl
368
Maße (L/B/H)
23,6/16,2/3,5 cm
Gewicht
522 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-982117-08-5
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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Absolutely brilliant
Bewertung am 14.04.2024
Bewertungsnummer: 2177865
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)
This is such an amazing book. It tells the story of not just one Lady Tan but lots of women of different social classes during the Ming dynasty. Asian culture is not my particular interest usually, but not only was this book entertaining, but I learned so much about how women lived back then and how hard it was for any of them, rich or poor.
I learned about Chinese ancestral medicine and how they perceived a woman’s body in medieval China, and how women got into compliance over centuries of Confucianism (foot binding omg!) while still trying to delicately touch the surface of feminism and awareness of their (not so great) situations.
The writing is immaculate, there’s no influence from the author (in a way that she does not condemn nor glorifies anything in the way she writes except when it’s her characters doing). I loved every minute of reading this book and I must read more from her. 100% recommended.
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