text is Bertolt Brecht’s Good Woman of Szechwan, a
play that the Canadian writer and theater scholar
Keith Garebian says dramatizes the “main ques-
tions that lie at the heart of Ha Jin’s novel: How
can you be human or perfect in an inhuman and
imperfect society? Can changes in society affect
human nature?”
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Garebian, Keith. “An artful reading of China’s mad-
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