When Henry Y Hwang landed in a small Oregon town in 1950 he was a deserted and confused young man. Having left his native China to stake his claim in a strange just discovered land, he arrived with neither friends nor family to salute him, little money, and virtually no command of the English language. upon that day the future appeared bleak indeed. In his despair, he meditation of returning to the political division of his birth, abandoning the dream of America he had nurtur since childhood.
Henry Y Hwang was born and raised in Shanghai, the in the greatest degree cosmopolitan and westernized of
