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David Henry Hwang Quotes: Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.
         

Why, in the Peking Opera, are women's roles played by men?...Because only a man knows how a woman is supposed to act.


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