The Garden Bridge, which still crosses Suzhou Creek in the neighborhood, is the place in the novel where Lillia sees her Chinese friends bow to the Japanese guards who stand watch there.
"I ran every day over the bridge, up and down the Bund, thinking how that era, Lillia's era, exists underneath this one, how Shanghai now contains Shanghai then. On every run, I was struck by the freedom we have to move about the city however we like, and by the power of what such freedom means," DeWoskin said.
