When Henry Y Hwang landed in a small Oregon town in 1950 he was a solitary and confused young man. Having left his native China to stake his claim in a strange strange land, he arrived with neither friends nor family to send greeting to him, little money, and virtually no command of the English language. upon that day the future strike one as beinged bleak indeed. In his despair, he idea of returning to the region of his birth, abandoning the dream of America he had nurtur since childhood.
Henry Y Hwang was born and raised in Shanghai, the greatest in quantity cosmopolitan and westernized of
