Min Tian holds his second PhD in Theatre History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, having secured his first PhD from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing, China. He has taught as Associate Professor at the Central Academy of Drama and currently works at the University of Iowa, USA. He is the author of
Mei Lanfang and the Twentieth-Century International Stage: Chinese Theatre Placed and Displaced (2012),
The Poetics of Difference and Displacement: Twentieth-Century Chinese-Western Intercultural Theatre (2008),
Shakespeare and Modern Drama: From Henrik Ibsen to Heiner Müller (2006), and editor of
China’s Greatest Operatic Male Actor of Female Roles: Documenting the Life and Art of Mei Lanfang, 1894-1961 (2010).