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Lady Tan’s Circle of Women

Lisa See

Start date: August 1, 2023

Finish date: August 31, 2023

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Jul 10, 2023 Krista rated it really liked it

Shelves: fiction, historical-fiction-asia, time-1400s, setting-asia, setting-asia-china, historical-fiction, 2023-books-read, audio-library-libby

I listened to this in audiobook format. I thought the narrator did a great job. The book itself started out a bit slow for me, but by the end I was fully invested in the whole cast of characters, the good, the bad and the ugly.

This book again brought home for me, the lot of women in 1400's China. If you were from a wealthy family, your life was even MORE cirumscribed than a peasant's life. Neither life was easy, that is for sure. ...more

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Jun 23, 2023 Jan rated it it was amazing

I am a fan of Lisa See novels. Her latest is no exception. I was fascinated by her depiction of the life of a female doctor in China from the 1460's into the 1500's. Well written and researched, this is a novel based on the life of real life female doctor, Tan Yunxian - started from when she was a child. Very interesting and informative, at times somewhat upsetting (for example - footbinding and also the way females were treated). Another excellent book by this author ...more

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Jan 24, 2024 Michelle rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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A young girl from an upper class family is trained to be a doctor by her grandmother. This leads to a lifetime of caring for others, particularly women.

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Oct 11, 2024 Linda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Fascinating Medicine Women of the Ming Dynasty

Lisa See has opened our eyes to a true history and saga of generations of Chinese women alive around 500 years ago. The focus is on women caring for women through midwifery, herbal remedies, and treatments learned through personal study, recording cases, and passing this on generation to generation. The reader is swept up in the rituals of women in every class of life, every fortune and misfortune. The practice of footbinding is at its peak and it i ...more

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