English Publications
Hsieh, Hsiao-Mei. "The Emergence of Taiwanese New Xiqu: A Case Study on Chichiao Musical Theater." The Oxford Handbook of Music in China and the Chinese Diaspora. Edited by Jonathan P.J. Stock, and Hui Yu. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2023, 292-309.
Hsieh, Hsiao-Mei. “Opela in Taiwan: Commercial Theatre, Grassroots Theatre, and Intellectual Theatre.” Double Dialogues14 (Melbourne: Summer 2011). Web.
Hsieh, Hsiao-Mei. “Where Have All the Different Butterfly Lovers Gone? The Homogenization of Local Theater as a Result of the Theater Reform in China as Seen in Gezai xi/Xiangju.” CHINOPERL Papers 30 (Saline: 2011): 103-122.
Hsieh, Hsiao-Mei. “In the Name of Shakespeare: Cross-cultural adaptation in Taiwan’s Beijing Opera.” Cultural Discursive Transformation. Special Issue of Journal of Asian Pacific Communication 21.2 (2011): 319-29.
Hsieh, Hsiao-Mei. “Music from a Dying Nation: Taiwanese Opera in China and Taiwan during World War II.” Asian Theatre Journal. vol. 27, no.2 (Fall 2010): 269-85.
Publications in Mandarin
Books
Hsieh, Hsiao-Mei, ed. Asian American Theatre Studies in Taiwan. Taipei: Bookman Book Co., 2020.
Peer Reviewed Articles and Book Chapters
"The Development of Pili International Multimedia Company in the Age of Globalization from the Perspective of Intellectual Protery Management (2014-2020.)" Journal of Theater Studies, 28 (July 2021): 113-140.
“The Theatrical and Narrative Aesthetics of Mary Zimmerman's Metamorphoses and The White Snake.” Journal of Theater Studies, 25 (January 2020): 79-108.
“The Development and Aesthetics of Projection Design in Contemporary Taiwanese Gezaixi Theatre: A Case Study of Ethan Wang and His Works with Tang Mei Yun Taiwanese Opera Company.” Journal of Theater Studies, 24 (July 2019): 117-40.
“Alienation Effects in Contemporary Xiqu Reconsidered: Chichiao Musical Theatre’s The Police Chalk Circle” Journal of Theater Studies, 19 (January 2017): 111-34.
“Representing Internment Camps on Stage in North America” Chung Wai Literary Quarterly, 45.4 (December 2016): 205-41.
“Metatheatrical Approaches in the Guoguang Opera Company's Cleopatra and Her Fools and Flowing Sleeves and Rouge.” Tsing Hua Journal of Chinese Studies, 45.4 (June 2015): 315-42.
“Asian Actors in America: Philip Kan Gotanda’s Yankee Dawg You Die.” Journal of Theater Studies 11 (2013): 89-112.
“After the Intercultural Exchange: Guoguang Opera Company’s Orlando and Meng Xiao-dong.” Journal of Theater Studies 10 (2012): 139-162.
“Two Versions of Shao Jiang-hai: Politics of Theatre Historiography.” Journal of Theater Studies 6 (2010): 149-168.
“From Refined to Opela: Discourses of Gezaixi under the Changing Taiwanese National Identity.” Min su qu yi [Journal of Chinese Ritual, Theatre and Folklore] 155 (Mar. 2007): 79-110.
“The Plot Development of "Shan-bo Ying-tai" in Gezaixi.” Journal of Taiwan Junior College of Performing Art 6 (March, 2003): 185-202.
“A Research on Opela Plays of Gezaixi.” Collected Essays in 2001 Cross-Strait Conference on Taiwanese Opera. Ed. Hsinhsin Tasi. Ilan: National Center for Traditional Arts, 2003.
“‘Opela’: Its Definition and Historical Development.” Chung Wai Literary Monthly 31.1 (June 2002): 157-174.
Translations
Trans. Gotanda, Philip Kan. Yankee Dawg You Die. (美國狗去死吧) Translated by Hsiao-mei Hsieh and Chiao-jung Chen. Taipei Theatre Journal 22 (July 2015): 215-59.
Trans. Dwight Conquergood, “Interventions and Radical Research.” Theatre Arts 154 (2010.2) : 33-42.
Trans. Franklin J. Hildy, “The Application of Theatre History: Rebuilding Shakespeare's Theatre.” Chung Wai Literary Monthly 31.1 (June 2002): 136-156.
Scripts
“Baishe (Playscript: White Snake 白蛇)” Wenxue Taiwan [Literary Taiwan] 52 (Oct. 2004).
(Script for DVD) A Collection of Outdoor Taiwanese Opera Performances in 2001. Taipei: National Center for Traditional Arts, 2002.
Awards and Honors
2021
National Taiwan University Outstanding Teaching Award
2020
National Taiwan University Outstanding Teaching Award
2019
Teaching Award from College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University
2015
Teaching Award from College of Liberal Arts, National Taiwan University
2009-2010
Book-Writing Grant, National Science Council, Taiwan
2007
Dissertation Fellowship, the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation, Taiwan
2007
Doctoral Travel Grant, Mellon Foundation/ Kaplan Institute for the Humanities, U.S.A.
2005-2006
Junior Visiting Scholar, Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
2003-2007
University Fellowship, Northwestern University, U.S.A.
1999
Thesis Scholarship, National Center for Traditional Arts, Taiwan
Graduate Theses and Projects Advised
．Liao, Zou-Han. Camp Aesthetics and Nostalgia in Postcolonial Taiwan: A Study of
Huang Xianglian’s Solo Romeo and Juliet and The Golden Bough Theatre’s
Romeo and Juliet. 2012.
．Yang, Ping-Jen. Robert Wilson’s Intercultural Collaboration with Taiwan: Orlando
and 1433 The Grand Voyage. 2012.
．Liao, Wan-Ling. The Practice of Playback Theatre in Taiwan: A case study of
Knowing Theater. 2012.
．Chen, Hui. Stage Design in Indoor Traditional Taiwanese Opera: Its Origin,
Development and Practice. 2012.
．Peng, Ssu-Ting. The Blue Memory and Reflections on the Play. 2013. Co-directed with Lou Yi-Jun.
．Wang, Jen-Fang. Ariane Mnouchkine and the East Asian Signatures in Her Works.
2014.
．Thang, Hsin-Yeh. The Hong Kong Culture in Zuni Icosahedron’s "East Wing West
Wing" 2014
．Chi, Tzu-Han. Chia-Ming Wang and His Popular Culture Trilogy. 2014
．Hung, Sheng-Hsiang. Politics of Malaysia in Kee Thuan Chye''s Plays: Ethnicity,
Class and National Identity. 2015.
．Hsu, Tzu-Yun. The Political Effectiveness of Bertolt Brecht’s Dialectical Theatre.
2017.
．Huang, Chen-Yu. The Puppets in Wang Chia-Ming’s Theatre. 2017.
．Chang, Yueh-Chi. The Inscription of Trauma in Philip Kan Gotanda''s Family Plays.
2019.
．Chiu, Hsiao-Chien. Representing Japanese Colonial Period in Taiwanese Musicals:
On A Beautiful Dream of Youth, April Rain, The Impossible Times and Wo Shi
You Cai De Hua Shen. 2019.
．Lee, Yi-Chu. Nobody's Voice and the Creating Report. 2019. Co-directed with Ma Kui-Yuan.
．Lo, Tze-Hsuan. Ethnic Identity Struggle from the Family: Taking Philip Kan
Gotanda’s Sisters Matsumoto, A Song for a Nisei Fisherman, and Fish Head
Soup as Examples. 2020.
．Chen, Sying. The Southern Scene of a Dream Kingdom: Three Performances of Japan's Takarazuka Revue in Taiwan (2013-2018). 2020.
．Chang, Au-Teng. Thunderbolt across the Border: The Collaboration between Taiwan and Japan in Thunderbolt Fantasy Project. 2021.
．Chen, Lin-Peng. The Practice of Localization of Western Classics by Li-Ying Chien -- Sleep in Spring, OK, My Dear Sisters and We Are Ghosts. 2021.
．Keung, Lai-Ming. The Survivor ——A Tale of Hong Kong. 2021. Co-directed with Wei-Ge Tong.
．Tsai, Chih-Ching. Theodoros Terzopoulos’ Psychophysical Theatre and his Intercultural Approach to The Bacchae (2016) and Yerma (2018). 2021.
．Tsai, Chia-Hua. The Subjugated Bodies: Blackness and the Performance of Racial Politics in the Age of Black Lives Matter. 2021. (Written in English)