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Lisa See (born 18 February 1955) is an American writer and novelist. Her books include On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family (1995), a detailed account of See's family history, and the novels Flower Net (1997), The Interior (1999), Dragon Bones (2003), Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2005), Peony in Love (2007) and Shanghai Girls (2009), which made it to ...
Lady Kuo finally accepts Yunxian as both a woman doctor and the clan's future matriarch, and Yunxian begins compiling a book of her cases. Several years later, a middle-aged Yunxian, now a respected physician, attends a festival alongside the Yang clan, Meiling and her son, and her natal family.
Little did the prolific, 68-year-old author realize that would lead directly to one of her most meticulously researched, fascinating and ultimately enjoyable works, “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.”
The series focuses on a fictionalized love triangle between Tan and two emperors, [13] with her medical work becoming a side plot. [14] The series' lavish yet historically accurate costumes are reported to cost over $460,000 USD. [15] Tan is the main character of Lisa See's 2023 novel Lady Tan's Circle of Women (ISBN 1982117087).
L.A. author Lisa See explains how her historical novel about a doctor, 'Lady Tan's Circle of Women,' was inspired by an antique bed in her family store.
Lily and Snow Flower write letters to one another on a fan with Nü Shu, a secret phonetic form of 'women's writing which Lily's aunt taught them.' [3] [4] The women also learn Nü Shu songs and stories and frequently meet at the Temple of the Gupo, where they go to pray for the birth of healthy sons, which is the "measure of a woman's worth."
Dreams of Joy is a 2011 novel by Lisa See.It debuted as #1 in the New York Times list of best selling fiction. [1] In this book See completes the circle she began in Shanghai Girls.
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