Chinglish
Miscommunication in action in the opening scene . . .David Henry Hwang has long chronicled thecomplications of Asian and western cultures clashing with mostly deleteriouseffects. His play M. Butterfly, which premiered on Broadway in 1988, famouslynarrated the story of a western diplomat who lived in China and fell in lovewith a communist spy he thought was a woman. With deft comedy and captivating theatric…