Conspiring behind the men’s backs to foil the patriarchy and survive.
1469, China. Little Tan Yunxian has just had her feet bound and is receiving instruction from her mother on how to be the perfect wife and mother when she leaves her Milk Days and enters her Hair-Pinning Days, and never, ever to bring shame upon her husband or her family. And then her mother dies…
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