Daphne P. Lei is Professor of Drama at the University of California, Irvine, USA. She is internationally known for her work on Chinese opera, Asian American theatre, intercultural theatre, and diasporic and transnational performance. She is the author of many scholarly articles, both in English and Chinese. She has published two books: Operatic China: Staging Chinese Identity across the Pacific (2006) and Alternative Chinese Opera in the Age of Globalization: Performing Zero (2011), and her articles can be seen in many scholarly journals. She is the president of American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR, 2015-2018).