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The Chinese Lady

US History’s Object Lesson Becomes US History’s Interpreter

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 2021

Colleen Kim Daniher
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Abstract

Magic Theatre’s San Francisco production of Lloyd Suh’s The Chinese Lady plays with theatrical time to stage a confrontation between the 19th-century American past and the Trump-era present.

Type
Critical Acts
Information
TDR , Volume 65 , Issue 2 , June 2021 , pp. 167 - 172
Copyright
© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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