Playwright who lost mother to plastic surgery malpractice explores impossible Vietnamese beauty standards in solo show. - NBCAsianAmerica
When she first performed her show, it ran for 25 minutes, and centered around the day of her mother's death and her quest for revenge.according to the U.S. National Library of MedicineLieu spent four years researching the surgeon under whose knife her mother died. And when she first began publicly telling her story, her goal was to avenge her mom's death.
That ideal can be traced back to Vietnam's colonial history, Nhi T. Lieu, an independent scholar based in Austin, Texas whose expertise is in immigration, gender and Asian American studies, and is not related to Susan Lieu, said. Feminists and scholars have argued that the choice to undergo plastic surgery is empowering for women, Nhi Lieu said. Yet at the same time, it can come at the cost of death and disfigurement, she added.
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