Word: hwang
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hwang, who organized the first AAA fashion show that raised money for the Battered Asian Women's Shelter, said her work as the former social-fundraising chair had given her the experience to run social events...
...contrast to Hwang's leadership in the social arena, Cheng said her work as the former Harvard Conference chair had given her the experience to handle administrative and financial matters...
...combined experiences show that we have what it takes to initiate and carry out our ideas," Hwang said. "Those two aspects come from our diverse backgrounds...
Face Value, the much-awaited world premiere written by David Henry Hwang, promises "a place to start building your world." In fact, what the author of M. Butterfly offers us is in this play is a place not exactly in our world, but in a different, utopian world, where race is recognized as a mythic construction and an obstruction to human relationship. The progression from reality to fantasy is both the strongest and weakest point of the play. That the play starts as realistic political narrative and ends up as utopian romance signals the unlikelihood of racism disappearing anytime soon...
...desire to be programmatic in giving us "a place to build our world," its insistence on dropping reality-checks in the middle of farce, borders dangerously on didacticism. Not only is the art better without the straight political messages, the politics are also more interesting. At his best, Hwang lets his characters embody race relations in America today: A white supremacist declares deadpan, "I consider myself on the cutting edge of racism"; a white actor declares empathetically, "I know what it's like to hate all white men," to which a bigoted professor responds, "What else does it take...