الفهرس 
A Historical Background.Only 14 pages are availabe for public view
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Abstract
Abstract
This thesis examines how far the Asian American history is a history that knows itself as revisionist. The researcher will attempt an analysis of this history with reference to Ronald Takaki’s book, Strangers from a Different shore, focusing on how Takaki uses personal stories to historicize real and actual events. This thesis also discusses how the ethnic and racist conditions of immigration and settlement for many Chinese and Japanese Americans affect their lives. It highlights this process through a thorough and comprehensive analysis of four major Asian plays by Genny Lim and Wakako Yamauchi.
As for the Chinese playwright Genny Lim, the researcher’s analysis will include a comprehensive study of Bitter Cane and Paper Angels, focusing primarily on how Lim depicts the oppressions of Chinese workers and how she portrays this indirectly by different emotional relationships. In Wakako Yamauchi’s The Music Lessons and And the Soul Shall Dance, focus will be on how far ”the conditions of immigration for Japanese Americans are undeniably the causes of the family problems” (Lee 153). Both plays are set in the Imperial Valley of California in the 1930s where rentless hard work intensifies problems within human relationships. They portray real historical situations expressing the difficulty of cultural assimilation and its bad psychological and physical effects on immigrants.
What is common in these four plays is that they are history plays in which Lim and Yamauchi recreate history in an attempt to restore the true identity of many Asian (Japanese and Chinese) immigrants living in a new foreign community.