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Patricia Sieber’s Essay on “Chinese Drama as World Theater” Published in Chinese Translation

October 21, 2025

Patricia Sieber’s Essay on “Chinese Drama as World Theater” Published in Chinese Translation

A theater stage with red velvet curtains drawn open, revealing a figure in colorful attire under stage lighting.
Kunqu Opera performance Peony Pavilion in Hong Kong. Image Credit: This photo is made available under the Attribution-NoDerivs 2.0 Generic license. Photographer: Edwin Lee.

In 2022, Prof. Patricia Sieber was invited to contribute an essay to The Journal of Chinese Literature and Culture for a special issue on “Critical Theory and Premodern Chinese Literature.”  In October 2025, the resulting essay, “Whither Theatricality: Toward Chinese Drama and Theater (xiqu 戲曲) as World Theater” has  been simultaneously republished in English and issued for the first time in a Chinese Translation by Hailing Lyu (PhD student in Translation Research and Instruction Program, Binghamton University) in the open access, online journal TheaComm, an E-Journal of Theater Arts Communication (Center for Theater Arts Collaboration at Binghamton University, State University of New York). TheaComm is a bilingual journal that aims to facilitate information and scholarship exchange in Chinese and Western theater arts, welcoming news, opinions, and scholarly articles from around the world.