{"id":53222,"date":"2017-04-03T02:37:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T02:37:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53222"},"modified":"2017-04-03T02:37:55","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T02:37:55","slug":"mixed-race-child-zigzags-through-shanghai-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=53222","title":{"rendered":"Mixed race child zigzags through Shanghai world"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mixed race child zigzags through Shanghai world<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Otago Daily Times<\/a>
\n2017-04-03<\/p>\n

Jessie Neilson<\/strong><\/a>, Library Assistant
\nUniversity of Otago<\/em><\/p>\n

DRAGON SPRINGS ROAD<\/strong><\/a>
\nJanie Chang<\/a>
\nWilliam Morrow
\n(Harper Collins Publishers)<\/p>\n

Janie Chang’s<\/a> second novel, <\/em>Dragon Springs Road<\/a>, details a landscape of memories, where traditional spiritual beliefs coexist with more modern ways of living.<\/em><\/p>\n

Author Janie Chang<\/a>, a Taiwanese Canadian, draws on her own family heritage and ancestors\u2019 beliefs in her second novel.<\/p>\n

It is 1908, the Year of the Monkey<\/a>, Dragon Springs Road, Shanghai<\/a>. In a traditional, affluent Chinese housing complex, a young girl is abandoned by her mother, with little explanation.<\/p>\n

The 7-year-old, Jialing, is Eurasian<\/a>, or za zhong<\/em>, as strangers insult her, and as such is treated with contempt by most of society. She has little chance of education or opportunity beyond prostitution, but fortunes look up when she is taken under the wing of the new family in residence…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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