Orientalism is a set of historical, ideological, cultural, geographical, psychological and other implications for both Westerners and Easterners, with the latter being the actual subjects thereof. However, it is possible to state, judging from the huge body of literature dedicated to the essence of Orientalism, the analysis of it roots and the process of its formation, that Orientalism in itself is the artificial phenomenon that has been created in the minds of Westerners performing the role of colonizers, explorers and researchers in the ‘laboratory’ of the conjugated East. David Henry Hwang approaches the phenomenon of Orientalism from an unusual standpoint, – as a writer belonging to both China and the USA, he tries to dismiss the common stereotypes about Orientalism and to show how conventional it is in reality (Simon 117). David Henry Hwang’s play M Butterfly is a powerful, rich example of how one can show the ridicule, depth of misconceptions in an artistic way. The central element of Hwang’s M Butterfly is the concept of stereotype in the mind of a Westerner. However, the very fact that the play utilizes the parts of the previously written Puccini’s drama Madame Butterfly , and reverses the traditional East-West the traditional roles in it, attacking the evil nature of Orientalism misconceptions, diminishing the role of gender, implies that the concept is of mental origin. Since there is lack of motivating evidence to assert the notion of Orientalism but the colonial past of Europe, one can assume that M Butterfly is an attempt to address Orientalism not as a set of concepts about the East, but as a problem of inconsistency of the Western perception, with Orientalism being the misleading concept that has no sense behind it. The basic tools of contrasting Orientalism and reality used by Hwang is by revolutionizing the approach to gender relationships (especially the ones of a Western man and an Oriental woman), and by deviating from the standard of submissive relationships between West (colonizer) and East (colonized). The present work may have well been awaited from the writer like Henry Hwang, since he belongs to the category of Chinese Americans, and he seen much segregation, stereotyping, and unjust treatment in the USA due to the Orientalism limitations. Hwang himself is a representative of “Chinese Americans,” thus having a dual identity of both a Chinese and an American. Therefore, he is reasonably interested in the roots of the east-west conflict. As Ling and White-Parks note, though there is hardly any Chinese in the literature who is not a wooden peg, Chinese are still similar to all other people, possessing a “rapid comprehension”, “almost morbid sensitiveness”, “considerable inventive power” etc. (234-5). Hwang directs these stereotypes and shows the deceptive power they have on Westerners, sometimes making them helpless in the nets of the Easterners who have also learnt to manipulate the Orientalism concepts for their benefit. David Henry Hwang himself confessed that the main intent of writing M Butterfly was to explore the way two representatives of opposing cultures and worlds managed to become happy; in his editorial to the play, Hwang noted that “truthful contact between nations and lovers can only be the result of heroic effort” (The afterword by David Henry Hwang). The reason for this was recognized by him in the fact that Western men were inclined to possess Oriental women because of the feminine, submissive stereotype they had a