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"body": "<div class=\"mw-parser-output\">\n <div id=\"databox-Books\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n Title:Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet;\nAuthor:Jamie Ford;\nIllustrator:;\nOrigTitle:;\nCountry:;\nLanguage:;\nSeries:;\nGenre:;\nPublisher:Ballantine Books;\nPubDate:2009;\nCurrentPublisher:;\nCurrentPubDate:;\nMediaType:;\nPages:;\nAwards:;\nISBN:;\nWorldCatLink:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.worldcat.org/title/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet-a-novel/oclc/229027205/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.worldcat.org/title/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet-a-novel/oclc/229027205/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true\n </a>\n ;\n </p>\n </div>\n <div class=\"floatright\">\n </div>\n <div class=\"rgonly\">\n <!--\"rgdatabox-CoreDisplay\" removed-->\n <div id=\"rgdatabox-Core\" style=\"display:none;\">\n <p>\n RGMediaType:books;\nTitle:Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet;\nCreators:Jamie Ford;\nInterestLevel:Grades 6-8; Grades 9-12; Adult;\nReadingLevel:Grades 6-8;\nGuidedReadingLevel:;\nLexile:;\nTheme:Family - blessing or curse; Growing up - pain or pleasure; Evils of racism; Lost love;\nGenre:Fiction;\nPoV:Third-person, Chinese American adolescent boy and adult man;\nRelatedEvents:;\nAvailability:Widely available;\nFreeWebVersion:Yes;\nPrimarySecondary:;\nHasTeachingAids:Yes;\nWarnings:;\nDenshoTopic:;\nGeography:;\nChronology:1940s and 1980s;\nFacility:Puyallup (Camp Harmony) [11]; Minidoka [8];\n </p>\n </div>\n </div>\n <p>\n Bestselling 2009 novel by Jamie Ford about a doomed romance between a young Chinese American boy and a Japanese American girl in 1942 Seattle.\n </p>\n <p>\n The book begins in 1986 with the discovery of the belongings of thirty-seven Japanese American families in the basement of Seattle's Panama Hotel, where they had left them for safekeeping prior to their forced removal in 1942. The discovery plunges Henry Lee, a recently widowed Chinese American, back forty plus years to a budding romance between him and a Japanese American classmate, Keiko Okabe, when they were twelve and the only two non-white students at their elementary school. Shunned or bullied by their classmates, they work together in the cafeteria and share a love of jazz, their first date coming at a nightclub where Henry's older friend and protector, Sheldon Thomas, plays. But Henry's father is an ardent Chinese nationalist, and Henry cannot tell his parents of his friendship. Henry helps Keiko and her family, agreeing to store some of their old family photos, leading to his parents' discovery of their friendship and his father's disowning of Henry. He sees the Okabes off when they are sent to\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Puyallup_(detention_facility)\" title=\"Puyallup (detention facility)\">\n Puyallup\n </a>\n and sees them on weekends when he lands a job at the mess hall there. He and Sheldon even visit\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Minidoka\" title=\"Minidoka\">\n Minidoka\n </a>\n , and Henry and Keiko pledge to write to each other. The letters eventually dry up, but Henry can never forget Keiko even after his happy marriage to Ethel, a Chinese American. The novel jumps back and forth between the war years and 1986, when Henry's son Marty and Marty's fiancé Samantha hear about Keiko for the first time, and Henry ponders his life as a retired widower.\n </p>\n <p>\n Author Jamie Ford was born in Eureka, California, to a Chinese American father and white mother, but grew up in Ashland, Oregon, until age twelve, then in the Seattle, Washington, area. (His great-grandfather had anglicized the family name to \"Ford\" soon after his migration in 1865.) A successful graphic artist based in Montana, Ford was inspired to write the short story that would become\n <i>\n Hotel\n </i>\n by his father's stories of wearing an \"I Am Chinese\" button during World War II. The story was published in the prestigious literary journal\n <i>\n Glimmer Train\n </i>\n and subsequently extended into a novel that was purchased by Ballantine books in a \"six-figure deal.\" Published in 2009, the book became a bestseller driven by positive reviews, word-of-mouth, feature placement by several large retailers—including Border's, Barnes and Noble, Costco, and Target—and many events and appearances by Ford. According to a\n <i>\n USA Today\n </i>\n article, the book had spent 89 weeks in the top 150 of the paper's bestseller list never going higher than #48, \"signs of a book propelled by word-of-mouth recommendations, gradually passed on from reader to reader.\" By the end of 2013 it had sold more than a million copies and had been translated into thirty-four languages. Ford's second novel,\n <i>\n Songs of Willow Frost\n </i>\n , which is set in prohibition era Seattle and centers of a twelve-year-old orphan searching for a Chinese American movie star whom he thinks might be his mother, was published in 2013.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n [1]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <p>\n Reviewers praised the appeal of the love story, the historical setting, and the multi-ethnic storyline. Joanna M. Burkhardt wrote that that the novel \"... expertly nails the sweet innocence of first love, the cruelty of racism, the blindness of patriotism, the astonishing unknowns between parents and their children, and the sadness and satisfaction at the end of a life well lived. The result is a vivid picture of a confusing and critical time in American history.\" Tammar Stein wrote that \"Ford does a masterful job creating a lost time and place. Seattle of the 1940s comes vividly alive, with a thriving jazz scene and a mix of cultures. Readers will see and feel the struggle between right and best as Japanese, Chinese, black and white bump, chafe and sometimes spontaneously combust under the strain of the constant fear of war.\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n [2]\n </a>\n </sup>\n Other reviewers found the plot predictable and/or contrived and characters \"flat\" and \"one-dimensional.\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref3_3-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref3-3\">\n [3]\n </a>\n </sup>\n Two reviewers also note that the twelve-year-old Henry seems too mature for his age, with the\n <i>\n New York Times Book Review'\n </i>\n s Alison McCulloch sardonically noting that \"Henry is terribly earnest and seems always too old for his age—at 12, he has the caution and calm of a 56-year-old; at 56, Ford refers to him as \"Old Henry Lee.'\"\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref4_4-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref4-4\">\n [4]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <p>\n The popularity of the novel has inspired several spin-off projects. Annie Lareau of the Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle adapted it into a play that premiered in 2012. It inspired musician Stephen Griggs to created \"Panana Hotel Jazz,\" a music and spoken work performance that played at the Panama Hotel Tea Room in 2013. An \"official walking tour\" of the International District revisiting scenes from the book is offered through the Wing Luke Asian Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. While there have been discussions about turning the book into a movie, author Ford told\n <i>\n Rafu Shimpo\n </i>\n media columnist George Johnston that those discussions all foundered over the issue of producers wanting to change the lead character from Chinese American to white, something Ford refuses to allow. Finally, in 2017, producers Diane Quon and Joseph Craig acquired the film rights to the book—along with executive producer George Takei, planning to go into production in 2018 with a script authored by Ford.\n <sup class=\"reference\" id=\"cite_ref-ftnt_ref5_5-0\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_note-ftnt_ref5-5\">\n [5]\n </a>\n </sup>\n </p>\n <div id=\"authorByline\">\n <b>\n Authored by\n <a class=\"encyc notrg\" href=\"https://encyclopedia.densho.org/wiki/Brian_Niiya\" title=\"Brian Niiya\">\n Brian Niiya\n </a>\n , Densho\n </b>\n </div>\n <div id=\"citationAuthor\" style=\"display:none;\">\n Niiya, Brian\n </div>\n</div>\n",
"moreinfo": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Author website:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.jamieford.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.jamieford.com\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <p>\n Publisher website:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.randomhouse.com/book/54454/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet-by-jamie-ford\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.randomhouse.com/book/54454/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet-by-jamie-ford\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <p>\n Cooper, Julie. Teacher's Guide for\n <i>\n Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet\n </i>\n . Random House.\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/teachers_guides/9780345505347.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/teachers_guides/9780345505347.pdf\n </a>\n .\n </p>\n <p>\n Lau, Alan Chong. \"Sweet Success.\"\n <i>\n International Examiner\n </i>\n , Oct. 7–20, 2009, p. 16.\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>",
"reviews": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Reviews\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Reviews\">\n Reviews\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Bridges, Josephine.\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.asianreporter.com/reviews/2011/23-11bittersweat.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n The Asian Reporter\n </a>\n </i>\n , Dec. 5, 2011, 15. [\"\n <i>\n Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet\n </i>\n is a work of such wisdom and compassion that if enough people read it, it could change the world. Jamie Ford has done his part, and done it brilliantly. The rest is up to us.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Burkhardt, Joanna M.\n <i>\n Library Journal\n </i>\n , Oct. 1, 2008, 56. [\"… expertly nails the sweet innocence of first love, the cruelty of racism, the blindness of patriotism, the astonishing unknowns between parents and their children, and the sadness and satisfaction at the end of a life well lived.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Carstensen, Angela.\n <i>\n School Library Journal\n </i>\n , May 2009, 140. [\"While the novel is less perfect as literature than John Hamamura's Color of the Sea (Thomas Dunne, 2006), the setting and quietly moving, romantic story are commendable.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Clouther, Kevin.\n <i>\n Booklist\n </i>\n , Nov. 15, 2008, 27. [\"… doesn't have anything especially novel to say about a familiar subject (the interplay between race and family), he write earnestly and cares for his characters, who consistently defy stereotype.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Cummins, Ann.\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://knau.org/post/hotel-corner-bitter-and-sweet\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n KNAU Arizona Public Radio\n </a>\n , Apr. 13, 2011. [\"For its portrait of cultures at war in Seattle during the 1940s, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet is a very worthwhile read.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Kaneko, Lonny.\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.iexaminer.org/wp/wp-content/themes/Avenue/print-issue/2009/3603.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n International Examiner\n </a>\n </i>\n , Feb. 4–17, 2009, 12.\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/jamie-ford/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Kirkus Reviews\n </a>\n </i>\n , Oct. 15, 2008, 1086. [\"The occasionally sappy prose tends to overtly express subtleties that readers would be happier to glean for themselves, but the tender relationship between the two young people is moving.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n McCulloch, Alison.\n <i>\n New Time Times Book Review\n </i>\n , Apr. 12, 2009, 26. [\"Though the story of life in war-era Seattle and the detention of the city's Japanese families, including Keiko's is rich in detail, its characters feel thin.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Pak, Samantha. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2009/28_09/pages/shelf_hotel.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Love Story Set in Seattle's Historic Hotel Offers Wisdom.\n </a>\n \"\n <i>\n Northwest Asian Weekly\n </i>\n , Feb. 21–27, 2009. [\"The plot of “Hotel” has the potential to become unrealistic to the point of being melodramatic, but Ford successfully strikes enough validity through its historical events and strong characters.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-345-50533-0\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Publisher's Weekly\n </a>\n </i>\n , Sept. 15, 2008, 40. [\"The wartime persecution of Japanese immigrants is presented well, but the flatness of the narrative and Ford's reliance on numerous cultural clichés make for a disappointing read.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Robinson, Ann.\n <i>\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://blog.oregonlive.com/books/2009/02/fiction_review_hotel_on_the_co.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n The Oregonian\n </a>\n </i>\n . Feb. 6, 2009. [\"This is a simpler, less ambitious book than 'Snow Falling on Cedars,' but it achieves a lovely combination of romantic coincidence, historic detail and realism that is smooth and highly readable.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Stein, Tammar. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/review-jamie-fords-hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet-captures-west/1042022\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Review: Jamie Ford's 'Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet' Captures West Coast Tension of World War II\n </a>\n .\"\n <i>\n Tampa Bay Times\n </i>\n , Oct. 9, 2009. [\"Ford does a masterful job creating a lost time and place. Seattle of the 1940s comes vividly alive, with a thriving jazz scene and a mix of cultures.\"]\n </p>\n <p>\n Upchurch, Michael. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2008712524_br06bitter.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n <i>\n Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet\n </i>\n Recalls World War II-Era Seattle.\n </a>\n \"\n <i>\n The Seattle Times\n </i>\n , Feb. 6, 2009. [\"But Ford's prose, while an easy read, can be a little clumsy at times. And the broad strokes with which he draws some of the story's minor characters detracts from its plausibility in certain passages.\"]\n </p>\n </div>\n</div>",
"footnotes": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Footnotes\">\n Footnotes\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <div class=\"reflist\" style=\"list-style-type: decimal;\">\n <div class=\"mw-references-wrap\">\n <ol class=\"references\">\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref1-1\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref1_1-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Jamie Ford interview on the author's website,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.jamieford.com/interview/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.jamieford.com/interview/\n </a>\n ; Jamie Ford bio on Nelson Literary Agency website,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://nelsonagency.com/clients/jamie-ford/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://nelsonagency.com/clients/jamie-ford/\n </a>\n ; Matthew Thornton, \"Deals,\"\n <i>\n Publishers Weekly\n </i>\n , Sept. 3, 2007, p. 10, Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost; Dick Donahue, \"Paperback Bestsellers/Trade\"\n <i>\n Publishers Weekly\n </i>\n , Oct. 4, 2010, p. 15, Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost; Bob, Minzesheimer, \"Novelist Jamie Ford Likes to 'Excavate the Past.'\"\n <i>\n USA Today\n </i>\n , Sept. 12, 2013, Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost; and Dick Donohue, \"Popular First Novelist Lands #2.\"\n <i>\n Publishers Weekly\n </i>\n , Sept. 23, 2013, p. 14, Academic Search Premier, EBSCOhost, all accessed on January 31, 2014.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref2-2\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref2_2-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Joanna M. Burkhardt,\n <i>\n Library Journal\n </i>\n , Oct. 1, 2008, p. 56; Tammar Stein, \"Review: Jamie Ford's 'Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet' Captures West Coast Tension of World War II,\"\n <i>\n Tampa Bay Times\n </i>\n , Oct. 9, 2009, accessed on January 31, 2014 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/review-jamie-fords-hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet-captures-west/1042022\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.tampabay.com/features/books/review-jamie-fords-hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet-captures-west/1042022\n </a>\n ; see also Angela Carstensen,\n <i>\n School Library Journal\n </i>\n , May 2009, p. 140; Ann Robinson,\n <i>\n The Oregonian\n </i>\n . Feb. 6, 2009,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://blog.oregonlive.com/books/2009/02/fiction_review_hotel_on_the_co.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://blog.oregonlive.com/books/2009/02/fiction_review_hotel_on_the_co.html\n </a>\n ; and Josephine Bridges,\n <i>\n The Asian Reporter\n </i>\n , Dec. 5, 2011, p. 15,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.asianreporter.com/reviews/2011/23-11bittersweat.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.asianreporter.com/reviews/2011/23-11bittersweat.htm\n </a>\n , both accessed on January 31, 2014.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref3-3\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref3_3-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n On the plot: \"The plot of\n <i>\n Hotel\n </i>\n has the potential to become unrealistic to the point of being melodramatic,\" Samantha Pak, \"Love Story Set in Seattle's Historic Hotel Offers Wisdom,\"\n <i>\n Northwest Asian Weekly\n </i>\n , Feb. 21–27, 2009,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2009/28_09/pages/shelf_hotel.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.nwasianweekly.com/2009/28_09/pages/shelf_hotel.html\n </a>\n ; \"... plot machinations... show some strain,\" Michael Upchurch, \"\n <i>\n Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet\n </i>\n Recalls World War II-Era Seattle,\"\n <i>\n The Seattle Times\n </i>\n , Feb. 6, 2009,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2008712524_br06bitter.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://seattletimes.com/html/books/2008712524_br06bitter.html\n </a>\n and\n <i>\n Publishers Weekly\n </i>\n , Sept. 15, 2008, p. 40. On the characters: \"The characters in the novel did strike me as a bit flat. The heroes frequently become mouthpieces for political messages and the bullies are one-dimensional,\" Ann Cummins, KNAU Arizona Public Radio, Apr. 13, 2011.\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://knau.org/post/hotel-corner-bitter-and-sweet\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://knau.org/post/hotel-corner-bitter-and-sweet\n </a>\n ; \"... its characters feel thin,\" Alison McCulloch,\n <i>\n New Time Times Book Review\n </i>\n , Apr. 12, 2009, p. 26, all accessed on January 31, 2014.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref4-4\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref4_4-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n McCulloch,\n <i>\n New Time Times Book Review\n </i>\n ;\n <i>\n Kirkus Reviews\n </i>\n , Oct. 15, 2008, p. 1086.\n </span>\n </li>\n <li id=\"cite_note-ftnt_ref5-5\">\n <span class=\"mw-cite-backlink\">\n <a class=\"\" href=\"#cite_ref-ftnt_ref5_5-0\">\n ↑\n </a>\n </span>\n <span class=\"reference-text\">\n Melissa Carter, \"We Have To Do This Book: Adapting Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,\" Book-It blog, Sept. 25, 2012, accessed on January, 31, 2014 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://book-it.org/2012/09/we-have-to-do-this-book-an-interview-with-hotel-directoradapter-annie-lareau/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://book-it.org/2012/09/we-have-to-do-this-book-an-interview-with-hotel-directoradapter-annie-lareau/\n </a>\n ; Wing Luke Museum website,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://wingluke.org/tours.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://wingluke.org/tours.htm\n </a>\n ; George Toshio Johnston, \"Into the Next Stage: Ford Finds Asian Americans Can't Drive Movies.\"\n <i>\n Rafu Shimpo\n </i>\n , June 21, 2012, accessed on January, 31, 2014 at\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"http://www.rafu.com/2012/06/into-the-next-stage-ford-finds-asian-americans-cant-drive-movies/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n http://www.rafu.com/2012/06/into-the-next-stage-ford-finds-asian-americans-cant-drive-movies/\n </a>\n ; Moira Macdonald, \"'Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet' Movie on the Way,\"\n <i>\n Seattle Times\n </i>\n , Sept. 6, 2017,\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet-movie-on-the-way/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/movies/hotel-on-the-corner-of-bitter-and-sweet-movie-on-the-way/\n </a>\n , accessed on Jan. 24, 2018.\n </span>\n </li>\n </ol>\n </div>\n </div>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230613175402\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.025 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.031 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 401/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 6907/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 1644/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 5/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 6261/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 20.225 1 -total\n 16.21% 3.278 1 Template:Reflist\n 11.50% 2.326 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 10.32% 2.088 1 Template:Databox-Books\n 6.69% 1.353 1 Template:Published\n 6.65% 1.345 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 6.44% 1.303 1 Template:FindAtIA\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:1843-0!canonical and timestamp 20230613175402 and revision id 33244\n -->\n </div>\n</div>",
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