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Eiling, Tieng-Bin’s favorite wife, died in childbirth. In grief and rage, Tieng-Bin burns offerings at her altar and recklessly sets the pavilion on fire. His daughter Ahn pulls him away from the fire, reminding him that he can embrace the future. She sees that her own mother (Siu-Yong) was misguided to be so attached to the old ways. Ahn uses her position as Tieng-Bin’s favorite and the “Golden Child” to help her father through his grief.
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TIENG-BIN: Papa, Mama, is this how you punish a disobedient son? Take from me the wife I love, even the wife I respect, leaving me with the one for whom I feel … nothing. I don’t give a damn any more about the living or the dead. Yes, by embracing the West, I have finally become … an individual.
AHN: All right, Papa. That’s enough. Come out before you set the whole pavilion on fire.
[... … …]
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AHN: And I will always be grateful to you, Papa--even when I am old, even after I die.
TIENG-BIN: How can you possibly know such things?
AHN: Because I am a Golden Child.
David Henry Hwang, Golden Child, Dramatists Play Service, 1999, pp.49-51.
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