Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's China Trilogy: Three Parables of Global Capital

"Some playwrights have a gift to amuse; Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig has a darker gift. Anyone with romantic notions of Chinese culture will be unsettled by the jagged, unsentimental portrait of modern urban China."(Chicago Reader)

Poetic and devastating, sensuous and politically acute, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig''s China Plays explore the forces of global capital as they explode within the lives of everyday ...