{"id":991044,"date":"2023-02-13T06:34:31","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T06:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/?p=273971"},"modified":"2023-02-13T06:34:31","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T06:34:31","slug":"the-balloon-the-rabbit-and-the-dragon-the-chinese-new-year-in-san-francisco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2023\/02\/13\/the-balloon-the-rabbit-and-the-dragon-the-chinese-new-year-in-san-francisco\/","title":{"rendered":"The Balloon, the Rabbit and the Dragon: the Chinese New Year in San Francisco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To write her most recent novel, Demon Copperhead (2022; 549 pages; $32.50; Harper Collins) her tenth in the past 35 years, Barbara Kingsolver turned for inspiration to Charles Dickens whom she calls her \u201cgenius friend.\u201d In the acknowledgements, she writes, \u201cI\u2019m grateful to Charles Dickens for writing David Copperfield, his impassioned critique of institutional poverty  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/13\/the-balloon-the-rabbit-and-the-dragon-the-chinese-new-year-in-san-francisco\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/13\/the-balloon-the-rabbit-and-the-dragon-the-chinese-new-year-in-san-francisco\/\">The Balloon, the Rabbit and the Dragon: the Chinese New Year in San Francisco<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2023\/02\/13\/the-balloon-the-rabbit-and-the-dragon-the-chinese-new-year-in-san-francisco\/\">CounterPunch.org<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To write her most recent novel, Demon Copperhead (2022; 549 pages; $32.50; Harper Collins) her tenth in the past 35 years, Barbara Kingsolver turned for inspiration to Charles Dickens whom she calls her \u201cgenius friend.\u201d In the acknowledgements, she wri&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991044"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":991791,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991044\/revisions\/991791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=991044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}