{"id":48234,"date":"2016-07-12T03:17:49","date_gmt":"2016-07-12T03:17:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=48234"},"modified":"2016-07-12T15:26:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-12T15:26:54","slug":"48234","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=48234","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Loop of Jade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neverimitate.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/11\/book-review-loop-of-jade\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Book Review: <\/strong><\/em><strong>Loop of Jade<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/neverimitate.wordpress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Never Imitate: Trying to avoid society&#8217;s pigeonholes<\/a><br \/>\n2016-07-11<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/followthehens\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jackie Law<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45082\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Loop of Jade<\/em><\/a>, by <a href=\"http:\/\/sarahhowepoetry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Howe<\/a>, is the author\u2019s debut poetry collection. It includes explorations of family, history, migration and inheritance. Within each work is an inherent restlessness tinged with longing. History, fable, Chinese culture, and modern life are skilfully woven together.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cSomething sets us looking for a place. Old stories tell that if we could only get there, all distances would be erased.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Howe was born in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hong_Kong\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong<\/a> to an English father and Chinese mother, moving to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/England\" target=\"_blank\">England<\/a> as a child. Her experience of living with dual roots seeps through&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/neverimitate.wordpress.com\/2016\/07\/11\/book-review-loop-of-jade\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Review: Loop of Jade Never Imitate: Trying to avoid society&#8217;s pigeonholes 2016-07-11 Jackie Law Loop of Jade, by Sarah Howe, is the author\u2019s debut poetry collection. It includes explorations of family, history, migration and inheritance. Within each work is an inherent restlessness tinged with longing. History, fable, Chinese culture, and modern life are skilfully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5,8],"tags":[24469,24468,24467,22600],"class_list":["post-48234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","tag-jackie-law","tag-never-imitate","tag-never-imitate-trying-to-avoid-societys-pigeonholes","tag-sarah-howe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48234"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48238,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48234\/revisions\/48238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}