AS AM 5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Edward Said, The Occident And American Jewish Advocate, David Henry Hwang
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The generation that came after the great poets. Born in 1957 by chinese immigrants in la. Educated at stanford university and the yale school of drama. Early plays all deal with the immigrant struggle to assimilate and forge a new identity and community. The next two plays are set in japan. Fame and huge commercial success, however, came in 1988 with the broadway production of m. butterfly. The geneva conference of 1954 ends the french colonial presence in vietnam. The country is split into two: the communist north and democratic south. An armed conflict between the communist backed north and the. The creation of communist china in 1949. The cultural revolution (1966-1976) - a political and social revolution to purge bourgeois elements of china. David hwang got inspiration from a real-life story where a french man was in a relationship with a man whom he thought was a woman for 20 years.
