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Jade Star Hotel
Composer:Stephanie Chou
Librettist:Susan Kander
Synopsis
Jade Star Hotel is the story of a Chinese “comfort woman,” a cruel euphemism for the women who were abducted and forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese army in the 1930s and 40s. In 1939, 16-year-old Lian is kidnapped by Japanese soldiers from her own wedding in a rural village in Manchuria and kept at a military “comfort station” with other women. Though she survives, she is rejected by her family as a “cursed one” and relegated to the edges of society. Sixty-five years later, a letter arrives from America to the extremely modest apartment she shares with her daughter and granddaughter, causing Old Lian to finally share her story with her only family. Jade Star Hotel is a tribute to the more than 200,000 comfort women and their courage in finally telling their stories.

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Opera Grants for Women Composers: Commissioning Grants2022

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