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As much as I disapproved of how women were treated through the period detailed in this book - their second-citizen status and the horrific bound-feet practice - I decided to push through because I was intrigued by Yunxian’s story.
She didn’t really have a circle of women, at first, coz she lost her mother at a young age, had to go to her grandparents’ where they were strict and had to be cared for by her father’s concubine, but I loved how See, the author, carefully built up the story - told at i ...more
She didn’t really have a circle of women, at first, coz she lost her mother at a young age, had to go to her grandparents’ where they were strict and had to be cared for by her father’s concubine, but I loved how See, the author, carefully built up the story - told at i ...more
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