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"moreinfo": "<div class=\"section\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n <h2>\n <span class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"For_More_Information\">\n For More Information\n </span>\n </h2>\n <div class=\"section_content\">\n <p>\n Streaming video of 1982 Asian American Theater Company production:\n <a class=\"external free offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/cusb_000173\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n https://archive.org/details/cusb_000173\n </a>\n </p>\n <p>\n Yamauchi, Wakako. \"12-1-A.\" In\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"https://archive.org/details/politicsoflifefo00hous\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n <i>\n The Politics of Life: Four Plays by Asian American Women.\n </i>\n </a>\n Edited, with introduction and commentaries, by Velina Hasu Houston. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. 45–100.\n </p>\n <p>\n \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf1489n74f/entire_text/\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n Finding Aid for the East West Players Records, 1965–1992\n </a>\n .\" Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.\n </p>\n <p>\n Hara, Eriko. \"\n <a class=\"external text offsite\" href=\"http://www.info.sophia.ac.jp/amecana/indexe.htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">\n The Politics of Re-narrating History as Gendered War: Asian American Women's Theater\n </a>\n .\"\n <i>\n Journal of American and Canadian Studies\n </i>\n 18 (2000).\n </p>\n <p>\n Kurahashi, Yuko.\n <i>\n Asian American Culture on Stage: The History of the East West Players\n </i>\n . New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1999.\n </p>\n <p>\n Lee, Josephine.\n <i>\n Performing Asian America: Race and Ethnicity on the Contemporary Stage.\n </i>\n Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1997.\n </p>\n <p>\n McDonald, Dorothy Ritsuko, and Newman, Katherine. \"Relocation and Dislocation: The Writings of Hisaye Yamamoto and Wakako Yamauchi.\"\n <i>\n MELUS\n </i>\n 7.3 (Fall 1980): 116-25.\n </p>\n <p>\n Morioka-Steffens, Tamayo Irene. \"Asian Pacific American Identities: An Historical Perspective Through the Theatre Productions of the East West Players, 1965 to 2000.\" Ph.D. dissertation, Claremont Graduate School, 2003.\n </p>\n <p>\n Shimakawa, Karen. \"Swallowing the Tempest: Asian American Women on Stage.\"\n <i>\n Theatre Journal\n </i>\n 47.3 (October 1995): 367–80.\n </p>\n <p>\n ———.\n <i>\n National Abjection: The Asian American Body Onstage.\n </i>\n Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.\n </p>\n <!-- \nNewPP limit report\nCached time: 20230613175243\nCache expiry: 86400\nDynamic content: false\nComplications: []\nCPU time usage: 0.017 seconds\nReal time usage: 0.024 seconds\nPreprocessor visited node count: 270/1000000\nPost‐expand include size: 4491/2097152 bytes\nTemplate argument size: 429/2097152 bytes\nHighest expansion depth: 6/40\nExpensive parser function count: 0/100\nUnstrip recursion depth: 0/20\nUnstrip post‐expand size: 0/5000000 bytes\nExtLoops count: 0\n-->\n <!--\nTransclusion expansion time report (%,ms,calls,template)\n100.00% 10.775 1 -total\n 25.33% 2.729 1 Template:RelatedArticles\n 21.39% 2.305 1 Template:RGDatabox-Core\n 14.27% 1.538 1 Template:Databox-Plays\n 12.61% 1.359 1 Template:Published\n 12.55% 1.352 1 Template:RelatedArticlesSection\n 12.51% 1.348 1 Template:AuthorByline\n 11.94% 1.286 1 Template:publish-rgonly\n-->\n <!-- Saved in parser cache with key encycmw:pcache:idhash:1487-0!canonical and timestamp 20230613175242 and revision id 31207\n -->\n </div>\n</div>"
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