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Context
At the beginning of Act Two, Tieng-Bin meets with Reverend Baines, an English missionary. Tieng-Bin, a consummate host, teaches his guest about Chinese customs, including types of tea. Throughout their conversation, Baines encourages Tieng-Bin to be an “individual” (a word recently invented in Chinese), and even brag about his accomplishments. Initially reluctant to show such self-flattery, he finds that he likes it, and is even more drawn into the modern world and Western ideas.
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Start:
TIENG-BIN: Oolong.
BAINES: Oolong
TIENG-Bin: Jasmine.
BAINES: Jasmine.
TIENG-BIN: Monkey-Pick.
BAINES: Monkey-Pick?
[... … …]
End:
TIENG-BIN: I employ good good cooks. Yummy! Yummy!
BAINES: I have daughter, most beautiful, all of world.
TIENG-BIN: One of my wives … is the most beautiful women in the creation of any God. (Pause.) What a luxury. To speak the truth -- in my own home of all places.
David Henry Hwang, Golden Child, Dramatists Play Service, 1999, pp.27-30.
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