Daughter of Fortune
“He had left Sacramento in April. Winter in that city seemed to go on and on; the only thing that sustained him were Eliza’s letters, which came sporadically, the hope that Lin’s spirit would locate him, and his friendship with his fellow zhong yi. Tao had acquired books on Western medicine and with great pleasure had taken on the patient task of translating them line by line for his friend; in that way both absorbed at the same time a knowledge very different from their own. They found that in ...the West little was known about essential herbs, about preventing illness, or about qi, the bodily energy never mentioned in those texts, but also that Western medicine was more advanced in other aspects. With his friend, Tao spent days comparing and discussing, but study alone could not console him: isolation and solitude weighed on him so heavily that he abandoned the wooden hut and his garden of medicinal plants and moved to a hotel run by Chinese, where at least he heard his language and ate food to his taste.MoreLess
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