Patricia Sieber
Biographic Data
| ID | 1250934 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Sieber |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Sieber |
| SIGNATURE | SIEBER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9631-1126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900
How to Read Chinese Drama
This book is a comprehensive and inviting introduction to the literary forms and cultural significance of Chinese drama as both text and performance. Each chapter offers an accessible overview and critical analysis of one or more plays—canonical as well as less frequently studied works—and their historical contexts.
Whither Theatricality? Toward Traditional Chinese Drama and Theater ( Xiqu 戲曲) as World Theater
The essay provides a brief review of how certain approaches to theatricality evolved in response to particular theatrical archives or repertoires in non-Chinese contexts. It then considers a number of recent studies of Chinese drama and theater in light of the following issues: the nature of theatrical language, the emergence and uses of fictionality, and the reconstruction of performance aesthetics. In focusing on these particular areas, the ess…
The Protean World of Sanqu Songs
This article traces the development process of the Cantonese community in the Klang Valley. As indicated in the local sources of the Chinese community history in this region, the Cantonese group, among other Chinese dialect groups, contributed significantly to the early development of Kuala Lumpur. They also rose as a dominant economic group among the Chinese community in the Klang Valley from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century. The Ca…
In Search of Pure Sound
This article consists of an introduction by Patricia Sieber and six short essays on translation approaches together with actual translations of sanqu songs by Mario De Grandis, Ke Wang, Hui Yao, Jingying Gao and Ian McNally, Xu Yichun, and Jenn Marie Nunes. The introduction provides a short history of the translation of sanqu songs into English, followed by a reflection on which distinctive features of the genre beg for attention in the translati…
A Flavor All Its Own
This article proposes a new typology of the sanqu corpus. The discussion analyzes a cross section of sanqu songs in terms of how they engaged with language registers, on the one hand, and how they recontextualized existing motifs and media, on the other. Specifically, the article focuses on three subsets of songs: songs that foreground everyday vignettes, songs that celebrate festive occasions at court, and songs that revisit the exemplars of Chi…
H siao-t’i L i . Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China
In his seminal book Red Star over China, American journalist Edgar Snow drew attention to the importance of theater in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to inspire the populace to shift their allegiance: “When the Reds occupy new areas ... it is the Red Theatre which calms the fears of the people, gives them rudimentary ideas of the Red programme, dispenses great quantities of revolutionary ideas, and counter-propaganda, to win the peop…
Turning Lethal Slander into Generative Instruction
Universal Brotherhood Revisited
This essay argues that Peter Perring Thoms (1790–1855), a printer in the service of the British East India Company in Macau, fashioned a Chinacentric sinology that cannot be readily subsumed under statist and other instrumental forms of Orientalism. Instead, neither a casual “amateur” nor an institutionally sanctioned “professional,” Thoms pioneered a translation model as a “citizen-scholar” intent on establishing literary and artistic excellence…
Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song
This article examines two key texts from early fourteenth-century Hangzhou to explore how they shaped the process of textualization of a new genre, the so-called sanqu songs. The article argues that both of these texts, the seminal anthology of the genre, the Yangchun baixue, and the first biographical compendium, the Lugui bu, sought to uncouple social status from literary reputation to varying degrees. The article suggests that the anthology ma…
The Eternal Present of the Past
Corporal Transactions
Dorothy Ko. Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet. Berkeley: Bata Shoe Museum and University of California Press, 2001. 162 pp.; ill.; maps; table; ISBN 0-520-23283-6 (cl); ISBN 0-520-23284-4 (pb). Ping Wang. Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 320 pp.; ill.; ISBN 0-8166-3605-2 (cl). Veena Talwar Oldenburg. Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime. New York: Oxford University…
The magnitude of ming
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate, or life. In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies…
Theaters of Desire
Theaters of Desire
Blending a flair for textual nuance with theoretical engagement, Theaters of Desire not only contributes to our understanding of the most influential form of early Chinese song-drama in local and inte
Getting at It in a Single Genuine Invocation
Religion and Canon Formation
of power, privilege, and wealth. Such had clearly been the case with the examination curriculum during late imperial times in China. Although the core texts of the curricular canon did not change during this time, a significant number of literati, including the key figure of the current essay, Jin Shengtan ~ ~ ~, entertained doubts as to whether the officially sanctioned genres and styles were the sole or most appropriate for the selection of wor…
Acts of translation
Comic Virtue and Commendable Vice
Introduction In an attempt to elucidate the intersection between the norms of the stage and those of the social order, David Johnson has suggested, fully intending the pun, that “[v]irtue is not a condition of the soul, it is a way of acting .... If basic moral concepts are defined in behavioral terms, then it is not surprising that the stage–both the ritual arena and the opera stage–becomes a fundamental metaphor for life.“ Clearly, theatrical p…
Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song
This article examines two key texts from early fourteenth-century Hangzhou to explore how they shaped the process of textualization of a new genre, the so-called sanqu songs. The article argues that both of these texts, the seminal anthology of the genre, the Yangchun baixue, and the first biographical compendium, the Lugui bu, sought to uncouple social status from literary reputation to varying degrees. The article suggests that the anthology ma…
A Flavor All Its Own
This article proposes a new typology of the sanqu corpus. The discussion analyzes a cross section of sanqu songs in terms of how they engaged with language registers, on the one hand, and how they recontextualized existing motifs and media, on the other. Specifically, the article focuses on three subsets of songs: songs that foreground everyday vignettes, songs that celebrate festive occasions at court, and songs that revisit the exemplars of Chi…
Comic Virtue and Commendable Vice
Introduction In an attempt to elucidate the intersection between the norms of the stage and those of the social order, David Johnson has suggested, fully intending the pun, that “[v]irtue is not a condition of the soul, it is a way of acting .... If basic moral concepts are defined in behavioral terms, then it is not surprising that the stage–both the ritual arena and the opera stage–becomes a fundamental metaphor for life.“ Clearly, theatrical p…
Religion and Canon Formation
of power, privilege, and wealth. Such had clearly been the case with the examination curriculum during late imperial times in China. Although the core texts of the curricular canon did not change during this time, a significant number of literati, including the key figure of the current essay, Jin Shengtan ~ ~ ~, entertained doubts as to whether the officially sanctioned genres and styles were the sole or most appropriate for the selection of wor…
Acts of translation
Getting at It in a Single Genuine Invocation
Theaters of Desire
Blending a flair for textual nuance with theoretical engagement, Theaters of Desire not only contributes to our understanding of the most influential form of early Chinese song-drama in local and inte
Theaters of Desire
Corporal Transactions
Dorothy Ko. Every Step a Lotus: Shoes for Bound Feet. Berkeley: Bata Shoe Museum and University of California Press, 2001. 162 pp.; ill.; maps; table; ISBN 0-520-23283-6 (cl); ISBN 0-520-23284-4 (pb). Ping Wang. Aching for Beauty: Footbinding in China. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000. 320 pp.; ill.; ISBN 0-8166-3605-2 (cl). Veena Talwar Oldenburg. Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime. New York: Oxford University…
The magnitude of ming
Few ideas in Chinese discourse are as ubiquitous as ming, variously understood as command, allotted lifespan, fate, or life. In the earliest days of Chinese writing, ming was already present, invoked in divinations and etched into ancient bronzes; it has continued to inscribe itself down to the twenty-first century in literature and film. This volume assembles twelve essays by some of the most eminent scholars currently working in Chinese studies…
The Eternal Present of the Past
Nobody's Genre, Everybody's Song
This article examines two key texts from early fourteenth-century Hangzhou to explore how they shaped the process of textualization of a new genre, the so-called sanqu songs. The article argues that both of these texts, the seminal anthology of the genre, the Yangchun baixue, and the first biographical compendium, the Lugui bu, sought to uncouple social status from literary reputation to varying degrees. The article suggests that the anthology ma…
Universal Brotherhood Revisited
This essay argues that Peter Perring Thoms (1790–1855), a printer in the service of the British East India Company in Macau, fashioned a Chinacentric sinology that cannot be readily subsumed under statist and other instrumental forms of Orientalism. Instead, neither a casual “amateur” nor an institutionally sanctioned “professional,” Thoms pioneered a translation model as a “citizen-scholar” intent on establishing literary and artistic excellence…
Turning Lethal Slander into Generative Instruction
The Protean World of Sanqu Songs
This article traces the development process of the Cantonese community in the Klang Valley. As indicated in the local sources of the Chinese community history in this region, the Cantonese group, among other Chinese dialect groups, contributed significantly to the early development of Kuala Lumpur. They also rose as a dominant economic group among the Chinese community in the Klang Valley from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century. The Ca…
In Search of Pure Sound
This article consists of an introduction by Patricia Sieber and six short essays on translation approaches together with actual translations of sanqu songs by Mario De Grandis, Ke Wang, Hui Yao, Jingying Gao and Ian McNally, Xu Yichun, and Jenn Marie Nunes. The introduction provides a short history of the translation of sanqu songs into English, followed by a reflection on which distinctive features of the genre beg for attention in the translati…
A Flavor All Its Own
This article proposes a new typology of the sanqu corpus. The discussion analyzes a cross section of sanqu songs in terms of how they engaged with language registers, on the one hand, and how they recontextualized existing motifs and media, on the other. Specifically, the article focuses on three subsets of songs: songs that foreground everyday vignettes, songs that celebrate festive occasions at court, and songs that revisit the exemplars of Chi…
H siao-t’i L i . Opera, Society, and Politics in Modern China
In his seminal book Red Star over China, American journalist Edgar Snow drew attention to the importance of theater in the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to inspire the populace to shift their allegiance: “When the Reds occupy new areas ... it is the Red Theatre which calms the fears of the people, gives them rudimentary ideas of the Red programme, dispenses great quantities of revolutionary ideas, and counter-propaganda, to win the peop…
Ecologies of Translation in East and South East Asia, 1600-1900
How to Read Chinese Drama
This book is a comprehensive and inviting introduction to the literary forms and cultural significance of Chinese drama as both text and performance. Each chapter offers an accessible overview and critical analysis of one or more plays—canonical as well as less frequently studied works—and their historical contexts.
Whither Theatricality? Toward Traditional Chinese Drama and Theater ( Xiqu 戲曲) as World Theater
The essay provides a brief review of how certain approaches to theatricality evolved in response to particular theatrical archives or repertoires in non-Chinese contexts. It then considers a number of recent studies of Chinese drama and theater in light of the following issues: the nature of theatrical language, the emergence and uses of fictionality, and the reconstruction of performance aesthetics. In focusing on these particular areas, the ess…
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