How long does it take to read Yellow Face?
Yellow Face by David Henry Hwang takes about 1 hour 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 1 hour 17 minutes
An evening's read
First published 2008. 70 pages, about 19,250 words.
3 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 2 hours 8 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 1 hour 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 48 minutes |
The page count is the median across 6 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"In this mock-documentary play, David Henry Hwang puts himself center stage, as he uses the controversy over color-blind casting for Miss Saigon and the racially motivated federal investigation of his own father to explore Asian identity and the ever-changing definition of what it is to be an American."--Cover.
Subjects: Drama, Identity (Psychology), Race relations, Asians, Race identity, Asian Americans
