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“Lady Tan’s Circle of Women by Lisa See ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read. 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

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Lisa See is so highly skilled in writing historical fiction novels — that I’ve never miss reading any that she publishes. Her storytelling of is always emotionally intimate….filled with inspiring characters making it easy and enjoyable to learn about life (society, culture, class, foods, expectations, mystery, history and traditions), before readers were born.In “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women”, Lisa See brings to life *Tan Yunxian*— one of China’s first recorded female doctors from the 15th century.“The story begins in 1469, in the fifth year of the Chenghua emperor’s reign, when Tan Yunxian was eight years old.“The western tradition of medicine at the time of Tan Yunxian’s practice explained sickness as either an imbalance, or a corruption of the four humors—blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile, which were thought to be the principal liquids of the body—or retribution for sins, committed by the patient. Most western medicines were created out of alcohol and herbs, and bloodletting with leeches was the norm”.