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Ivy League Orientalism: Staging Samarkand in Princeton, 1926

Ivy League Orientalism: Staging Samarkand in Princeton, 1926

A century ago, Princeton’s Triangle Club staged Samarkand, a lavish comic opera that transformed the Central Asian city into an Orientalist fantasy of romance, luxury and exoticism. Diego Benning Wang…

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