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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2005
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Summary: Lily is haunted by memories--of who she once was, and of a person, long gone, who defined her existence. She has nothing but time now, as she recounts the tale of Snow Flower, and asks the gods for forgiveness. In nineteenth-century China, when wives and daughters were foot-bound and lived in almost total seclusion, the women in one remote Hunan county developed their own secret code for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2005
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Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2023
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Summary: Set in 17th century China, this is a coming-of-age story, a ghost story, a family saga and a work of musical and social history. Peony is the 15-year-old cloistered daughter of the wealthy Chen family. She is betrothed to a suitor she has never met. Peony's mother is against her daughter attending a production of "The Peony Pavilion," an epic opera, since she believes unmarried girls should...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2007