Inspired by the true story of the first Chinese woman to step foot in America, Lloyd Suh’s critically acclaimed play is a tale of dark poetic whimsy and a unique portrait of the United States as seen ...

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Television stars Keiko Agena and Rex Lee bring impressive power to playwright Lloyd Suh’s fact-based and moving play, “The Chinese Lady,” running on the Alliance Theatre’s Hertz Stage through Oct. 17.

Mahjong, a tile-based game with Chinese origins, has seen a surge in popularity in Tallahassee and across the nation. The game, often compared to "crosswords for numbers nerds," involves strategy, ...

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In 1834, teenager Afong Moy became the first known Chinese woman to come to the United States, where she was displayed as a ...

That sense of being invited in and then excluded—both for immigrant and spectator—is one of the more potent motifs in Lloyd Suh’s resonant and effective play. The 2018 two-hander (remounted by Ma-Yi ...

Lloyd Sun’s sense of humor is never sharper than when he compares foot binding in China to America’s transatlantic slave trade. It is a wicked wit that is laced throughout his 2018 play, “The Chinese ...

Prasso, a former Business Week Asia editor, asks if Westerners can look objectively at the Eastern region, blinded as they are by ""issues of race and sex, fantasy and power."" It's this worldview-one ...

In the fall of 1834, a trading ship named the Washington sailed into New York Harbor bearing strange cargo—the human kind. Two merchant brothers, Francis and Nathaniel Carnes, had brought from China a ...