uty and self-sacrifice of Cio-Cio San, the devoted Japanese woman who waits three years for her American husband and commits ritual suicide upon discovering that he has taken an American wife" while Hwang's play "adapts the real-life drama of Boursicot and Shi Peipu [the heroes of the famous late 20th century espionage case – author] to reinterpret one of the West's most enduring tales of sentimental racism". And so far many critics describe the effect of a "curved mirror" or inversion Hwang has used to decrown the Orientalistic myths. The most vivid and factual consequence of this inversion is the fact that in the Asian-American play of 1988 it is the male, Gallimard
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