Lady Tan’s Circle of Women
by Lisa See, Scribner
Wandering past the bookshelves in her office, one title jumped out. “It was about pregnancy and childbirth in the Ming dynasty. I read to page 19 and found a mention of Tan Yunxian, a female doctor who, when she turned 50 in 1511, published a book of her cases,” says author Lisa See.
“I was intrigued, and down the rabbit hole I went.”
And thank goodness she did. The resulting