The Washington Post, January 30th, 1994
It is a very small scene, far from the main point of "Golden Gate," David Henry Hwang's new film that opened in Washington on Friday, but it suggests how close the playwright is to a new generation of Asian Americans - and how much mischief he hopes to make at the expense of their earnest, straight-A image. In the film, the Japanese American leader of a university protest has had a sign painted in characters common to both Chinese and Japanese, but confesses to a Chinese American friend that it was done by "some honky from the Asian Languages Department." When the Chinese friend tells him the ...
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