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Quote of the Day Fresh quotes Topics Authors I'm Feeling Lucky Disable ads! 26 quotes by David Henry Hwang David Henry Hwang Chinese 黃哲倫 Transcriptions Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Huáng Zhélún Wade–Giles Huang Chelun IPA [xwɑ ŋ tʂɤ lu n] Gwoyeu Romatzyh Hwang Jerluen Cantonese Jyutping Wong4 Zit3leon4 David Henry Hwang (simplified Chinese: 黄哲伦; traditional Chinese: 黃哲倫; pinyin: Huáng Zhélún; born August 11, 1957, in Los Angeles) is an American playwright, librettist, and screenwriter, as well as a theater professor. Hilton Als of the New Yorker has... Read full biography of David Henry Hwang → 1 2 Ctrl → I'm interested in internationalism. It's the new multiculturalism. How we deal with each other isn't sufficient any more. It's about... → 0 Chinese culture in general is not very religious. Confucianism is more a code of ethics than a religion, and ancestor worship is a way for parents to... → 0 We all deal with failure. If you're lucky to have a long career, it's part of the experience. 0 I've studied Chinese in college, but basically, I'm not bilingual. 0 'Yellow Face' marks my summation of multiculturalism. 0 My first plays were amazingly bad, but I had a teacher who thought I had promise, and he kept working with me. I finally went to a summer workshop... → 0 As Asian-Americans, the charge that is often lobbed against us is sort of the least original: the idea that somehow we're perpetual foreigners... → 0 I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that. 0 I felt pretty good growing up. I didn't feel a lot of prejudice or racism. But I do remember, if there was going to be a movie or a television... → 0 I visited a new cultural center in Shanghai in 2005 that was pretty much perfect, except for the really badly translated Chinglish signs: a... → 0 If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is... → 0 My father has always been interested in discarding the past. He's never much liked China or the whole idea behind China or Chinese ways of... → 0 My new play 'Chinglish,' which will go to Broadway, is about a white American businessman who goes to a provincial capital in China, hoping... → 0 1 2 Ctrl → Add a quote!


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