.LacyMB reviews LadyTansCircleofWomen Lisa_See's expansion on the life of medieval Chinese doctor Tan Yunxian, which crafts a specific, vibrant, and thoroughly lived-in history for a remarkable woman.
isn’t just a book that faithfully recreates the details of a previous era in order to embellish its story, but something that actually tells us something new about a person or time period we weren’t terribly familiar with along the way. Lisa See’s novels excel at both these elements, delving into Chinese history and culture through uniquely female stories and perspectives that make her work stand out from the historical fiction pack.
A female physician who practiced during the Ming dynasty, she published a book of her cases when she turned fifty, titled Little is known about her personal life; in fact, almost nothing survives about her beyond the writing she left behind. But that’s what fiction is for, isn’t it?takes that absence of knowledge and fashions a specific, vibrant, and thoroughly lived-in history for Yunxian.
Yunxian is a child when the story begins, a dutiful aristocrat’s daughter whose future should have contained little beyond bound feet, childbirth, and a life spent forever behind the walls of the family compound. But when her mother dies of an infection, she’s sent to live with her paternal grandparents, both of whom are physicians who support female education and are more than willing to teach her the healing arts they practice.
Though she experiences seasons of sadness and isolation, Yuxian’s friendship with Meiling, as well the bonds she forms with the other women she meets at the new home, including family elders, concubines, servants, and her own daughters provide rich, unexpected joys and new connections.
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