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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
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.
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