{"id":634,"date":"2008-05-01T11:11:25","date_gmt":"2008-05-01T15:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=634"},"modified":"2015-08-17T10:02:25","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:02:25","slug":"binu-and-the-great-wallthe-myth-of-meng-by-su-tong-translated-by-howard-goldblatt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/binu-and-the-great-wallthe-myth-of-meng-by-su-tong-translated-by-howard-goldblatt\/","title":{"rendered":"Binu and the Great Wall: The Myth of Meng by Su Tong, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in Bloomsbury Review]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/05\/Binu-and-the-Great-Wall1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-30036\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2008\/05\/Binu-and-the-Great-Wall1.jpg\" alt=\"Binu and the Great Wall\" width=\"337\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a>Part of Canongate\u2019s much-praised <em>Myths Series<\/em>. Su Tong \u2013\u00a0best known Stateside for his novella <em>Raise the Red Lantern<\/em>, which became an Oscar-nominated film by legendary Zhang Yimou\u00a0\u2013\u00a0breathes life into one of China\u2019s oldest myths. Binu is a devoted wife who leaves her native village to search for her missing husband, one of thousands of workers kidnapped to build the Great Wall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/tbr-2008-05-06-in-celebration-of-apa-heritage-month.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">&#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: A Survey of New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-635\" title=\"binu-and-the-great-wall\" src=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/03\/binu-and-the-great-wall.jpg\" alt=\"binu-and-the-great-wall\" width=\"127\" height=\"193\" \/>Part of Canongate\u2019s much-praised <em>Myths Series<\/em>. Su Tong \u2013 best known Stateside for his novella <em>Raise the Red Lantern<\/em>, which became an Oscar-nominated film by legendary Zhang Yimou \u2013 breathes life into one of China\u2019s oldest myths. Binu is a devoted wife who leaves her native village to search for her missing husband, one of thousands of workers kidnapped to build the Great Wall.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Review<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/bookdragonreviews.wordpress.com\/files\/2009\/07\/tbr-2008-05-06-in-celebration-of-apa-heritage-month.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;In Celebration of Asian Pacific American Month: A Survey of New &amp; Notable Books,&#8221; <em>The Bloomsbury Review<\/em>, May\/June 2008<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30036,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,67,6,6535],"tags":[84,3510,1968,6608,438,11,24,69,13,28,3511],"class_list":["post-634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-chinese","category-fiction","category-repost","tag-betrayal","tag-binu-and-the-great-wall-the-myth-of-meng","tag-bloomsbury-review","tag-bookdragon","tag-folklore-legend-myth","tag-friendship","tag-historical","tag-howard-goldblatt","tag-love","tag-politics","tag-su-tong"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.14 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Binu and the Great Wall: The Myth of Meng by Su Tong, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in Bloomsbury Review] - 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\/binu-and-the-great-wallthe-myth-of-meng-by-su-tong-translated-by-howard-goldblatt\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Binu and the Great Wall: The Myth of Meng by Su Tong, translated by Howard Goldblatt [in Bloomsbury Review] - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Part of Canongate\u2019s much-praised Myths Series. 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