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'Soft Power:' Rise of China and flipping the yellowface trope
Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang’s new show “Soft Power” takes place in 2016 Los Angeles and 22nd Century China.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readTony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang’s new show “Soft Power” takes place in 2016 Los Angeles and 22nd Century China. It talks about the 2016 presidential election, China’s quest for artistic and intellectual influence, and cultural appropriation.
Playwright David Henry Hwang. Photo by Gregory Costanzo.
Conrad Ricamora as businessman Xue Xing and
Francis Jue as writer David Henry Hwang in "Soft Power."
The ensemble singing about the U.S. election system.
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The full episode
2 of 4'Soft Power' imagines China as the world superpower- 0:00What to expect from the North Korea-U.S. summit
- 9:58'Soft Power:' Rise of China and flipping the yellowface tropeYou’re reading this
- 26:32Syphilis and gonorrhea reach record levels
- 36:58'Boom for Real' looks at artist Jean-Michel Basquiat as a teen