{"id":4797,"date":"2004-07-30T21:53:42","date_gmt":"2004-07-31T01:53:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=4797"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:48:00","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:48:00","slug":"the-magpie-bridge-by-liu-hong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-magpie-bridge-by-liu-hong\/","title":{"rendered":"The Magpie Bridge by Liu Hong [in AsianWeek]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/07\/Magpie-Bridge.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-31382\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2004\/07\/Magpie-Bridge.jpg\" alt=\"Magpie Bridge\" width=\"319\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Written by a British Chinese author, <em>Bridge <\/em>pulls the reader in bit by bit, almost like unraveling a mystery. At the book\u2019s core is the relationship between a young Chinese student living in London and her grandmother who comes to visit her in the middle of the night and decides to stay. Trouble is, Tie Mei passed away years ago, but here she is in her granddaughter\u2019s 3rd floor bedroom telling Jiaojiao that she is pregnant with Tie Mei\u2019s great-grandson &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong> Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-07-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-07-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/2004-07-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">, July 28, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4775\" title=\"Magpie Bridge\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/magpie-bridge.jpg\" alt=\"Magpie Bridge\" width=\"126\" height=\"193\" \/>Written by a British Chinese author, <em>Bridge <\/em>pulls the reader in bit by bit, almost like unraveling a mystery. At the book\u2019s core is the relationship between a young Chinese student living in London and her grandmother who comes to visit her in the middle of the night and decides to stay. Trouble is, Tie Mei passed away years ago, but here she is in her granddaughter\u2019s 3rd floor bedroom telling Jiaojiao that she is pregnant with Tie Mei\u2019s great-grandson &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong> Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-07-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;New and Notable Books,&#8221; <\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-07-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">AsianWeek<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/2004-07-30-new-and-notable.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">, July 28, 2004<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2004 (United States)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31382,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,330,67,6,6535],"tags":[3598,6608,10,11,135,4683,13,4684,216],"class_list":["post-4797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-british-asian","category-chinese","category-fiction","category-repost","tag-asianweek","tag-bookdragon","tag-family","tag-friendship","tag-grandparents","tag-liu-hong","tag-love","tag-magpie-bridge","tag-mystery"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Magpie Bridge by Liu Hong [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/the-magpie-bridge-by-liu-hong\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Magpie Bridge by Liu Hong [in AsianWeek] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Written by a British Chinese author, Bridge pulls the reader in bit by bit, almost like unraveling a mystery. 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