YANGTZE REPERTORY THEATRE OF AMERICA NEWS New Bilingual drama by Yangtze Rep's Artistic Director Joanna Chan, commissioned by Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, to have world premiere in Hong Kong January 15, 2011 followed by American premiere in New York in June, 2011. "The Empress of China" is based on the story of the first trading ship from the US to reach China in 1784. The play is an emotional voyage in which two worlds meet and find each other. In the prosperous port of an ancient e ...