Character experience, David Henry Hwang.

David Henry Hwang (1957) was born in an immigrant family from China. My father is from Shanghai and my mother is from Fujian, Philippines. The family environment is superior, and I have received a good education since I was a child. He has a unique interest and talent in literature. He did not follow his father's wishes to become a lawyer, but embarked on the road of creation.

1979, when David Henry Hwang graduated from Stanford University, he had written the first official play "New Immigrants" and won the Obi-Wan Prize of 198 1 year. Later, he entered Yale University to study drama, during which he created two other works, Dance and Railway and Family Love, which were later called "Plum Blossom Trilogy" together with new immigrants. These three works are all about immigrants from China, showing the survival and psychological state of China immigrants in American society in 1980s. However, what really made him famous was Butterfly Jun, which was completed in 1986. 1988 In February, "Butterfly Jun" premiered at the National Theatre in Washington State, USA, and premiered on Broadway in March, with strong response. It not only won the Tony Award, the highest award in American drama, but also brought him a great reputation, thus establishing David Henry Hwang's position in American drama. 1993, the movie Butterfly Jun, which was adapted by him and directed by the famous director David Kronberg, came out, which further deepened the popularity of this work among the audience.

The butterfly is an important turning point. Since then, Bundle, Golden Boy and Flower Drum Song have been published one after another, all of which focus on the special experience of Chinese.

1996, David Henry Hwang wrote The Golden Boy based on his family story "Rich for Three Generations". After nearly two years' revision, the play premiered on Broadway on 1998, and won wide acclaim again, winning three nominations, including Obi Award and Tony Award for Best Feature Film.

In 2002, David Henry Hwang wrote a script for the new musical Flower Drum Lantern. The play made David Henry Hwang famous in the drama world again, and was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Musical Script, setting a new record for China writers to nominate Tony Awards three times.

In May, 2007, David Henry Hwang's comedy "The Yellow-faced Woman" was grandly staged at the Los Angeles Music Center. In this play, David Henry Hwang narrates the events related to Asian "yellow-faced woman" in American drama and politics in the past 20 years in a first-person irony way, which not only mocks the totally different attitudes of mainstream American society towards Asians for a long time, but also deeply examines and reflects the mentality and internal reasons why Asians can't get rid of racial barriers. Once the play was released, it attracted extensive attention from critics and various media, and was deeply loved by the audience. The play won the nomination of "Obi Award" and "pulitzer prize for drama" for David Henry Hwang for the third time, which ushered in another round of creative peak for him.

In 2008, David Henry Hwang is going to adapt the life of the late legendary Bruce Lee and write a musical called Bruce Lee: Journey to the West. The play will reproduce Bruce Lee's bravery and justice through singing, dancing and martial arts, and his role in breaking the inherent prejudice of westerners against orientals, so that the audience can know more about this generation of China superstars.

In 20 13, Chinglish, written by David Henry Hwang, was staged on Broadway, which was the first bilingual stage play in Broadway history.