Lisa See
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"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....
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English
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Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, and anger at her mother and aunt for keeping them from her, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father, the artist Z.G. Li, with whom both May and Pearl were once in love. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers in the communist regime.
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English
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Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate the first automobile any of them have seen and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, "Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, " See introduced...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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In nineteenth century China, in a remote Hunan county, a girl named Lily, at the tender age of seven, is paired with a laotong, or "old same, " in an emotional match that will last a lifetime. The two women exchange messages written on silk fans and handkerchieves using nu shu, a unique language that women created in order to communicate in secret, sharing their experiences, but when a misunderstanding arises, their friendship threatens to tear apart....
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English
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"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
6) China Dolls
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Language
English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Peony In Love, Shanghai Girls, and Dreams of Joy returns with her highly anticipated new novel. A bold and bittersweet story of secrets and sacrifice, love and betrayal, prejudice and passion, China Dolls reveals a rich portrait of female friendship, as three young women navigate the "Chop Suey Circuit"--America's extravagant all-Asian revues of the 1930s and '40s--and endure...
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English
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“I finally understand what the poets have written. In spring, moved to passion; in autumn, only regret.”
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered...
For young Peony, betrothed to a suitor she has never met, these lyrics from The Peony Pavilion mirror her own longings. In the garden of the Chen Family Villa, a small theatrical troupe is performing scenes from this epic opera, a live spectacle few females have ever seen. Like the heroine in the drama, Peony is the cloistered...
10) Flower net
Author
Series
Red princess volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
A thriller on a joint American-Chinese investigation into the smuggling of immigrants and human organs. Featuring a Chinese policewoman and an American lawyer, the novel examines cultural differences.
11) Dragon bones
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Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2003.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Salamandra
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
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Una inmersión meticulosa en una cultura fascinante en vías de desaparición. Conocidas por su espíritu independiente y su tenaz voluntad, las haenyeo --mujeres buceadoras de la isla surcoreana de Jeju-- constituyen uno de los principales símbolos culturales de este país asiático. Fascinada por esta sociedad matriarcal, Lisa See nos brinda una hermosa y reflexiva novela sobre los lazos de amistad de dos jóvenes haenyeo --Kim Young-sook...
14) Muñecas chinas
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Series
Publisher
Ediciones B, S.A. para el sello B de Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Español
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Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A collection of letters--to ancestors, to children five generations from now, to strangers in grocery lines, to any and all who feel weary and discouraged--written by award-winning novelists, poets, political thinkers, and activists.