Perhaps the most intriguing character in Rodgers and Hammerstein is Nancy Kwan 's Linda Low of '' Flower Drum Song '' -LRB- a transplanted version of her Hong Kong courtesan from '' The World of Suzie Wong '' turned into a gold-digging nightclub entertainer -- a refugee from the rapidly reddening East turned into the most savagely self-interested of capitalists -RRB- .