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Humanities Hour With Heidi Kim, ‘The Dark Side of the Flower Drum Song’

Back Bar, Top of the Hill 100 East Franklin Street, #3, Chapel Hill, NC, United States

Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Flower Drum Song was a popular (though not critical) hit and started some of its Asian American stars on the road to lasting fame. However, its very contradictory story taps into a Cold War backdrop of paranoia … Read more