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| name = Dragon Bones
[[Image:Body of Maroon child brought before medicine man, 1955.jpg|thumb|right|250px|Body of [[Ndyuka]] Maroon child brought before a [[shaman]], [[Suriname]] 1955]]
| author = '''[[Lisa See]]'''
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| country = [[US]]
| language = [[English language|English]]
| genre = [[Novel]]
| publisher = [[Random House, Inc.]]
| release_date = [[2004]]
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| preceded_by = '''[[The Interior (See)|The Interior]]'''
| followed_by = '''[[Snow Flower and the Secret Fan]]'''
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'''''Dragon Bones''''' by '''[[Lisa See]]''' (2004) is the third of the Red Princess mysteries, preceded by '''''[[Flower Net]]''''' and '''''[[The Interior (See)]]'''''. Once again the protagonists Inspector Liu Hulan and Attorney David Stark return -- but this time as husband and wife. At the start of the novel, the couple is mourning the death of their young daughter Chaowen. Guilt and anguish have driven the lovers apart, unable to get past their mutual loss. Hulan's inner turmoil is made even worse when she is forced to shoot and kill a woman at an All-Patriotic Society rally to save a young girl from being stabbed by her mother. The Chinese government opposes the Society as a threat to public order, an opinion that Hulan strongly shares.
A '''Maroon''' (from the word ''marronage'' or American/Spanish ''cimarrón'': "fugitive, runaway", lit. "living on mountaintops"; from [[Spanish language|Spanish]] ''cima'': "top, summit") was a runaway [[slavery|slave]] in the [[West Indies]], [[Central America]], [[South America]], or [[North America]]. Maroon populations are found in [[Jamaica]], [[Amazon River]] Basin to the American states of [[Florida]] and [[North Carolina]].


Hulan and David are brought together to work on the same case from different perspectives. Hulan is sent to an archaeological site near the construction of the massive '''[[3 Gorges Dam]]''' project <ref> Lisa See, "Three Gorges Dam is potential new symbol in China, possibly surpassing even the Great Wall", NPR, 08/12/03</ref> to investigate a suspicious death. In an NPR report, See emphasizes the potent symbolism of the Dam, alluding to a 4,000 year old Chinese saying: "He who controls the water controls the people". She concludes her report by returning to the same idea: ". . . no matter how the outside world views the dam, inside China it will be there to remind the people of a sage emperor; in other words, the current government, who serves the people by controlling the waters"<ref>See, "All Things Considered (NPR), 08/12/03</ref>. David is sent to the same site to find out how precious Chinese artifacts are being smuggled out of China. The '''[[archaeologists]]''' at the site are working frantically to find as many '''[[antiquities]]''' as they can before the dam is completed, flooding their dig site as well as many others. They are especially interested in finding evidence that people in the area have maintained continuous culture for 5000 years.
==History==
The word ''Maron'' originally derived from the Spanish word for ''Moors'', or people of [[Morocco|Moroccan]] descent. In the [[New World]], as early as 1512, black slaves had escaped from Spanish and Portuguese owners and either joined indigenous peoples or eked out a living on their own.<ref name="Drake1">[http://www.bartleby.com/33/34.html "Sir Francis Drake Revived" in ''Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14'' paragraph 21]</ref> Sir [[Francis Drake]] enlisted several 'cimaroons' during his raids on the Spanish.<ref>[http://www.bartleby.com/33/35.html "Sir Francis Drake Revived" in ''Voyages and Travels: Ancient and Modern. The Harvard Classics. 1909–14'' paragraph 101]</ref> As early as 1655 runaway slaves had formed their own communities in inland [[Jamaica]].<ref name="Campbell">Campbell, Mavis Christine (1988) ''The Maroons of Jamaica, 1655-1796: A History of Resistance, Collaboration & Betrayal'' Bergin & Garvey, Granby, MA, ISBN 0-89789-148-1 </ref>
[[Image:Maroon women with washing. Suriname River. 1955.jpg|thumb|250px|[[Ndyuka]] Maroon women with washing. [[Suriname River]]. 1955]]
When runaway slaves banded together and subsisted independently they were called Maroons. On the [[Caribbean Islands]] runaway slaves formed bands and on some islands formed armed camps. Maroon communities faced great odds to survive against white attackers, obtain food for subsistence living, and to reproduce and increase their numbers. As the planters took over more land for crops, the Maroons began to vanish on the small islands. Only on some of the larger islands were organized Maroon communities able to thrive by growing crops and hunting. Here they grew in number as more slaves escaped from plantations and joined their bands. Seeking to separate themselves from whites, the Maroons gained in power and amid increasing hostilities, they raided and pillaged plantations and harassed planters until the planters began to fear a mass slave revolt.<ref name="brief">{{cite book
| first=Jan
| last=Rogozinski
| year= 1999
| title= A Brief History of the Caribbean
| edition= Revised
| publisher=Facts on File, Inc.
| location=New York
| pages= pp 155-168
| id= ISBN 0-8160-3811-2 }}</ref>


The plot weaves together several story lines. One involves the difficult task of finding out the true intentions of the All-Patriotic Society. Another is concerned with '''[[Chinese archaeology]]''' and whether the men and women who work at the dig site are involved in the smuggling of antiquities. With dead bodies turning up rather frequently, Hulan's task in solving these crimes is challenging. And there is also the painful journey of Hulan and David as they try to accept their daughter's death.
The early Maroon communities were usually displaced. By 1700, Maroons had disappeared from the smaller islands. Survival was always difficult as the Maroons had to fight off attackers as well as attempt to grow food.<ref name="brief"/> One of the most influential Maroons was [[François Mackandal]], a [[houngan]], or [[voodoo]] priest, who led a six year rebellion against the white plantation owners in [[Haiti]] that preceded the [[Haitian Revolution]].<ref>{{cite web
|year=
|month=
|url=http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/haiti2004/history.htm
|title=The History of Haiti and the Haitian Revolution
|publisher=The City of Miami
|accessdate=2007-08-16
}}</ref>


Reviewers of ''Dragon Bones'' have tended to be somewhat ambivalent about it. Lev Raphael's review is rather typical in this regard.<ref>"Dragon Bones." ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'', 07/23/2003</ref> Raphael finds the novel to be "overly romantic" and the conclusion melodramatic. On the other hand, "the real strength of this book is the absorbing portrait of China, from the bugged office of a high official to the dismal hut of a starving peasant, the kind of person who knows what it is 'to eat bitterness.'" See presents an "effective depiction of a modern land held emotionally and socially hostage to the past . . ."
In [[Cuba]], there were maroon communities in the mountains, where escaped slaves had joined refugee [[Taíno]]s.<ref name="Aimes">Aimes, Hubert H. S. (1967) ''A History of Slavery in Cuba, 1511 to 1868'' Octagon Books, New York;</ref> Before roads were built into the mountains of Puerto Rico, heavy brush kept many escaped maroons hidden in the southwestern hills where many also intermarried with the Natives. Escaped Africans sought refuge away from the coastal plantations of Ponce. <ref>[http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0018-2168(198605)66%3A2%3C381%3AEPYCPR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R]</ref>
Remnants of these communities remain to this day (2006) for example in [[Viñales]], Cuba <ref name=autogenerated1>[http://www.guerrillero.co.cu/pinardelrio/2004/marzo/eltemplo.htm "El Templo de los Cimarrones" Guerrillero:Pinar del Río] in Spanish</ref> and Adjuntas, Puerto Rico.
<!-- ==Usage and other terms==
The name Maroon is the [[English language|British]] and [[French language|French]] [[Corruption (grammar)|corruption]] of the Spanish 'cimarrones', meaning wild or untamed. While the word 'maroon' was used extensively for the escaped blacks in Jamaica, it was in use throughout the Caribbean. The French used the word 'marron' for any fugitive slave. In [[the Guianas]] escaped slaves were commonly known as '''Bush Negroes''' or '''Refugee Blacks'''
In Spanish speaking areas, the villages were sometimes called [[Palenque (village)|palenques]] or [[quilombo]]s, and the free blacks were called ''palenqueros''. -->


==Notes==
Maroon communities emerged in many places in the Caribbean ([[Saint Vincent (island)|St Vincent]] and [[Dominica]] for example), but none were seen as such a great threat to the British as the [[Jamaican Maroons]].<ref name=autogenerated2>Edwards, Bryan (1801) ''Historical Survey of the Island of Saint Domingo'' J. Stockdale, London;</ref> A British governor signed a treaty promising the Maroons 2500 acres (10 km²) in two locations, because they presented a threat to the British. Also, some Maroons kept their freedom by agreeing to capture runaway slaves. They were paid two dollars for each slave returned.<ref name="Colonies">Taylor, Alan (2001) ''American Colonies: The Settling of North America'' Penguin Books, New York;</ref>
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== External links ==
Beginning in the late 17th and early 18th centuries, [[Jamaican Maroons]] fought British colonists to a draw and eventually signed treaties in the 18th century that effectively freed them over 50 years before the [[abolition]] of the [[slave trade]] in 1807. To this day, the [[Jamaican Maroons]] are to a significant extent autonomous and separate from Jamaican society. The physical isolation used to their advantage by their ancestors has today led to their communities remaining amongst the most inaccessible on the island. In their largest town, [[Accompong]], in the [[Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica|parish of St. Elizabeth]], the Leeward Maroons still possess a vibrant community of about 600. Tours of the village are offered to foreigners and a large festival is put on every January 6 to commemorate the signing of the peace treaty with the British after the [[First Maroon War]].<ref name="Campbell"/><ref>Edwards, Bryan (1796) "Observations on the disposition, character, manners, and habits of life, of the Maroon negroes of the island of Jamaica; |b an a detail of the origin, progress, and termination of the late war between those people and the white inhabitants." in Edwards, Bryan (1801) ''Historical Survey of the Island of Saint Domingo'' J. Stockdale, London, pp. 303-360;</ref>
*[http://www.amazon.ca/gp/product/product-description/0345440315/ Excerpts from various reviews]
*[http://www.china.org.cn/english/travel/66972.htm "Gorges Artifacts Add to Study of Early Chinese Civilization".] Xinhua News Agency (June 13, 2003)


==Culture==
== References ==
[[Image:Maroon/Marokon village, Suriname River, 1955.jpg|thumb|right|300px|[[Ndyuka]] Maroon/Marokon village, [[Suriname River]], 1955]]
Slaves escaped frequently within the first generation of their arrival from Africa and often preserved their [[African languages]] and much of their culture. African & American traditions include such things as the use of medicinal herbs together with special drums and dances when the herbs are administered to a sick person. Other African healing traditions and rites have survived through the centuries - see, for example, the accompanying photos of a medicine man and a protective charm from Suriname.


Bissey, Carrie. Review. ''Booklist'', 03/15/2003.
The [[jungle]]s around the [[Caribbean Sea]] offered food, shelter, and isolation for the escaped slaves. Maroons survived by growing vegetables and hunting. They also originally raided [[plantations]]. During these attacks, the maroons would burn crops, steal livestock and tools, kill slavemasters, and invite other slaves to join their communities. Individual groups of Maroons often allied themselves with the local [[Amerindian|indigenous tribes]] and occasionally assimilated into these populations. Maroons/Marokons played an important role in the histories of [[History of Brazil|Brazil]], [[History of Suriname|Suriname]], [[History of Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]], [[History of Haiti|Haiti]], [[History of Cuba|Cuba]], and [[History of Jamaica|Jamaica]].


Hill, Nancy Malone. Review. ''Library Journal'', 05/15/2003.
There is much variety among Maroon [[culture|cultural]] groups because of differences in history, geography, African nationality, and the culture of indigenous people throughout the [[Western hemisphere]].


''Kirkus Reviews'', 03/15/2003, Vol. 71 Issue 6.
Maroon/Marokon settlements often possessed a clannish, outsider identity. They sometimes developed [[Creole language]]s by mixing European tongues with their original African languages. One such Maroon Creole language, in Suriname, is [[Saramaccan language|Saramaccan]].

The Maroons/Marokons created their own independent communities which in some cases have survived for centuries and until recently remained separate from mainstream [[society]]. In the 19th and 20th centuries, Maroon/Marokon communities began to disappear as forests were razed, although some countries, such as [[Guyana]] and [[Suriname]], still have large Maroon populations living in the forests. Recently, many Maroons/Marokons have moved to cities and towns as the process of [[urbanization]] accelerates.

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===North America===
====Florida====
The [[Black Seminoles/Moors]], Maroons/Marokons who allied with [[Moorish Seminole Aboriginals (tribe)|Seminole Indians]] in Florida, were by far the largest and most successful Maroon/Marokon community in North America.
====Nova Scotia====
The Nova Scotian Maroons were originally Jamaican Maroons who were deported to Nova Scotia in 1796 because of their rebellion against the colonial government in Jamaica. Many of their descendants are the Krios of Sierra Leone-see the article [[Nova Scotian Maroons]].
====Mexico====
See [[Gaspar Yanga]], [[Afro-Latin American#Mexico|Afro-Latin]], [[Afro-Mexican#Palenques|Afro-Mexican]].

===Central America===
====Panama====
By 1570 the number of [[Maroons]] in Villano, near [[Nombre de Dios]] in the north of [[Panama]] exceeded 2,000.<ref name="Drake1"/> See [[Cimarron people (Panama)]], [[Bayano]].

====Honduras, Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua====
See [[Garifuna]].

===Caribbean islands===
====Jamaica====
{{main|Jamaican Maroons}}
{{Cleanup|date=January 2007}}
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When the British invaded [[Jamaica]] in 1655 the [[Spanish people|Spanish]] [[colonialism|colonists]] fled leaving a large number of [[African people|Africans]] who they had enslaved. Rather than be re-enslaved by the British, they fled into the hilly, mountains regions of the island, joining those who had previously escaped from the Spanish to live with the [[Taíno]]s. Over time, the Maroons came to control large areas of the Jamaican interior and they often moved down from the hills to raid the [[plantation]]s.

They were highly organised and knew the country well. Because of this, additional run-away slaves joined them. The two main Maroon groups were the [[Trelawny Town]] or Leeward Maroons - at one time led by [[Cudjoe]] - and the Windward Maroons - led by Queen Nanny and later by Quao. The Maroons/Marokons were skilled hunters and warriors and, hard as they tried, the [[British Army]] could not control or defeat them.

Aboriginal Maroons/Marokons in Jamaica intermarried with [[Aboriginal Taíno]] and [[Aboriginal Miskito]] people from [[Central America]], establishing independence in the back country as the island changed hands from the Spanish to the British in the 17th century. Originally Jamaican Maroons who fought against slavery maintained their [[independence]] from the British. However in the treaty of 1738 they were also paid to return captured slaves and fight for the British in the case of an attack from the French or Spanish. Many of them were deported in 1796 to [[Nova Scotia]] and eventually to [[Sierra Leone]].

Famous among Maroon rebels was Queen Nanny, also known as [[Granny Nanny]], leader of the Windward (Eastern) Maroons in the 18th century. She is the only female listed among Jamaican national [[hero]]es, and has been immortalized in songs and legends. She was known for her exceptional leadership skills, which were particularly important in the [[First Maroon War]] in the early 1700s. For example, she planned [[guerrilla warfare]] that confused the [[British Empire]]. Her remains are reputedly buried at "Nanny Bump" in Moore Town, the main town of the Windward Maroons who are concentrated in and around the [[Rio Grande]] valley in the eastern parish of [[Portland Parish, Jamaica|Portland]].

====Haïti====
See [[Mawon]].

====Others====
Similar Maroon communities emerged elsewhere in the Caribbean (St Vincent and Dominica for example), but none were seen as such a great threat to the British as the Jamaican Maroons.<ref name=autogenerated2 /> In Cuba, there were maroon communities in the mountains, where escaped slaves had joined refugee [[Taíno]]s.<ref name="Aimes" /> Remnants of these communities remain to this day (2006) for example in [[Viñales]].<ref name=autogenerated1 />

===South America===
====French Guiana====
Live in the interior part of [[French Guiana]], which mainly consists of difficultly penetratable jungle.
-->

''The Boni Maroon Wars in Suriname'' by Wim S.M. Hoogbergen gives an overall picture of the history of the [[Aluku]], or Boni, in [[Suriname]] from their origins until 1860, using the archives of the Netherlands, France and Suriname. Presently they live along the [[Lawa River, South America|Lawa River]], the border river between [[Suriname]] and [[French Guiana]], with about 2,000 people. They fled there after protracted warfare against the white planters and their colonial armies. Another author who wrote on the Boni history is [[John Gabriel Stedman]]. Other Maroon tribes still found in Suriname are the [[Saramaka]], the [[Paramakans]], the [[Ndyuka]] or ''Aukan'', the [[Kwintis|Kwinti]] and the [[Matawais|Matawai]].

<!-- By 1770 it was said that there were 5.000 or 6.000 Maroons. By 1863, at the [[History of Suriname|abolition of slavery in Suriname]], their number was about 10,000 (and 38,545 slaves). By 1972 the number of Maroons was 35,838, and in 2004 it was 72,553. That is 15% of the total Suriname population.

====Brazil====
One of the best-known ''[[quilombo]]s'' was a Brazilian settlement/kingdom called [[Palmares (quilombo)|Palmares]] (the Palm Nation) which was founded in the early 17th century by run-away slaves in the northeast of [[Brazil]]. At its height, it had a population of over 30,000 free people and was ruled by king [[Zumbi]]. Palmares lasted for almost 100 years as an independent nation until was eventually wiped out in 1694. -->

==Notes==
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McAloon, Judy et al. Review. ''School Library Journal'', 10/2003.
==References==
* ''[[Daughters of the Dust]]'', 1991, film by [[Julie Dash]] taking place in 1902 off the coast of [[South Carolina]] and [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. It shows how, on an isolated island, a group of people manages to hold on to their [[Igbo people|Ibo]] customs and traditions. ISBN 0-525-94109-6
* ''Ganga Zumba'', (1963), film by Carlos Diegues
* ''[[Quilombo]]'', (1985), film by [[Carlos Diegues]] about [[Palmares (quilombo)|Palmares]], ASIN B0009WIE8E
* Hoogbergen, Wim S.M. Brill (1997) ''The Boni Maroon Wars in Suriname'' Academic Publishers, ISBN 90-04-09303-6
* Corzo, Gabino La Rosa (2003) ''Runaway Slave Settlements in Cuba: Resistance and Repression'' (translated by Mary Todd), University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, ISBN 0807828033
* De Granada, Germán (1970) ''Cimarronismo, palenques y Hablas “Criollas” en Hispanoamérica'' Instituto Caro y Cuero, Santa Fe de Bogotá, Colombia, [http://worldcat.org/oclc/37821053 OCLC 37821053] (in Spanish)
* van Velzen, H.U.E. Thoden and van Wetering, Wilhelmina (2004) ''In the Shadow of the Oracle: Religion as Politics in a Suriname Maroon Society'' Waveland Press, Long Grove, Illinois ISBN 1577663233
*Price, Richard (ed.) (1973) ''Maroon societies: rebel slave communities in the Americas'' Anchor Books, Garden City, N.Y., ISBN 0-385-06508-6
*Honychurch, Lennox (1995) ''The Dominica Story'' Macmillan, London, ISBN 0333627768 (Includes extensive chapters on the Maroons of Dominica)
*Thompson, Alvin O. (2006) ''Flight to freedom: African runaways and maroons in the Americas'' University of West Indies Press, Kingston, Jamaica, ISBN 9766401802
*Learning, Hugo Prosper (1995) ''Hidden Americans: Maroons of Virginia and the Carolinas'' Garland Publishing, New York, ISBN 0815315430
*Campbell, Mavis Christine (1988) ''The Maroons of Jamaica, 1655-1796 : a history of resistance, collaboration & betrayal'' Bergin & Garvey, Granby, Mass., ISBN 0-89789-148-1
*Dallas, R. C. The History of the Maroons, from Their Origin to the Establishment of Their Chief Tribe at Sierra Leone. 2 vols. London: Longman. 1803.


Raphael, Lev. "Dragon Bones." ''Fort Worth Star-Telegram'', 07/23/2003.
==See also==
*[[Jamaican Maroons]]
*[[Gaspar Yanga]]
*[[Sranang Tongo]]
*[[Marie-Elena John]]
*[[Capoeira]]
*[[Zambo]]
*[[Black Seminoles]]
*[[Black Indians]]
*[[Afro-Latin American]]
*[[Cimarron people (Panama)]]
*[[Maroon music]]


See, Lisa. "Three Gorges Dam is potential new symbol in China, possibly surpassing even the Great Wall", NPR, 08/12/03.
==External links==
*[http://www.kingbotho.com Maroon music and teaching methods]
*[http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/maroon/presentation.htm Creativity and Resistance: Maroon Cultures in the Americas]
*[http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7834 A good short history of the "Bush Negroes" of Suriname]
*[http://www.toplumpostasi.net/index.php/cat/9/col/85/art/1008/PageName/English The Maroons, Hindustanis and others of Surinam]


Zaleski, Jeff. "Dragon Bones". ''Publishers Weekly'', 03/24/2003, p. 55.
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Revision as of 21:43, 13 October 2008

Dragon Bones
AuthorLisa See
CountryUS
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherRandom House, Inc.
Publication date
2004
Preceded byThe Interior 
Followed bySnow Flower and the Secret Fan 

Dragon Bones by Lisa See (2004) is the third of the Red Princess mysteries, preceded by Flower Net and The Interior (See). Once again the protagonists Inspector Liu Hulan and Attorney David Stark return -- but this time as husband and wife. At the start of the novel, the couple is mourning the death of their young daughter Chaowen. Guilt and anguish have driven the lovers apart, unable to get past their mutual loss. Hulan's inner turmoil is made even worse when she is forced to shoot and kill a woman at an All-Patriotic Society rally to save a young girl from being stabbed by her mother. The Chinese government opposes the Society as a threat to public order, an opinion that Hulan strongly shares.

Hulan and David are brought together to work on the same case from different perspectives. Hulan is sent to an archaeological site near the construction of the massive 3 Gorges Dam project [1] to investigate a suspicious death. In an NPR report, See emphasizes the potent symbolism of the Dam, alluding to a 4,000 year old Chinese saying: "He who controls the water controls the people". She concludes her report by returning to the same idea: ". . . no matter how the outside world views the dam, inside China it will be there to remind the people of a sage emperor; in other words, the current government, who serves the people by controlling the waters"[2]. David is sent to the same site to find out how precious Chinese artifacts are being smuggled out of China. The archaeologists at the site are working frantically to find as many antiquities as they can before the dam is completed, flooding their dig site as well as many others. They are especially interested in finding evidence that people in the area have maintained continuous culture for 5000 years.

The plot weaves together several story lines. One involves the difficult task of finding out the true intentions of the All-Patriotic Society. Another is concerned with Chinese archaeology and whether the men and women who work at the dig site are involved in the smuggling of antiquities. With dead bodies turning up rather frequently, Hulan's task in solving these crimes is challenging. And there is also the painful journey of Hulan and David as they try to accept their daughter's death.

Reviewers of Dragon Bones have tended to be somewhat ambivalent about it. Lev Raphael's review is rather typical in this regard.[3] Raphael finds the novel to be "overly romantic" and the conclusion melodramatic. On the other hand, "the real strength of this book is the absorbing portrait of China, from the bugged office of a high official to the dismal hut of a starving peasant, the kind of person who knows what it is 'to eat bitterness.'" See presents an "effective depiction of a modern land held emotionally and socially hostage to the past . . ."

Notes

  1. ^ Lisa See, "Three Gorges Dam is potential new symbol in China, possibly surpassing even the Great Wall", NPR, 08/12/03
  2. ^ See, "All Things Considered (NPR), 08/12/03
  3. ^ "Dragon Bones." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 07/23/2003

External links

References

Bissey, Carrie. Review. Booklist, 03/15/2003.

Hill, Nancy Malone. Review. Library Journal, 05/15/2003.

Kirkus Reviews, 03/15/2003, Vol. 71 Issue 6.

McAloon, Judy et al. Review. School Library Journal, 10/2003.

Raphael, Lev. "Dragon Bones." Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 07/23/2003.

See, Lisa. "Three Gorges Dam is potential new symbol in China, possibly surpassing even the Great Wall", NPR, 08/12/03.

Zaleski, Jeff. "Dragon Bones". Publishers Weekly, 03/24/2003, p. 55.

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