Golden Child (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: David Henry Hwang
- First Published: 1998
- Type of Work: Play
- Genres: Drama
- Subjects: Husbands, United States or Americans, Wives, Tradition, Ghosts or apparitions, Christianity, Grandparents or grandchildren, Identity, China or Chinese people, Chinese Americans, East and West
- Locales: United States, China
David Henry Hwang's grandmother told stories about her life in China to her young grandson, who precociously recorded them in a novel at the age of ten. In 1996, Hwang's juvenile novel was finally realized as a stage drama in Golden Child, a play narrated by a ten-year-old ghost. Focusing on the chasm between Eastern and Western religious and political practices, the play features Eng Tieng-Bin, a husband torn between his Chinese devotion to his three wives and his desire to embrace American Christianity, which mandates that he divorce two of them.
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