Arthur Miller (1915-2005) was arguably the greatest American playwright of the twentieth century. His most famous work for the stage includes Death of a Salesman , The Crucible , All My Sons and A View from the Bridge. Six volumes of his plays and a volume of his theatre essays are published by Methuen Drama. Claire Conceison (volume editor) is Quanta Professor of Chinese Culture and Professor of Theater Arts at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. She is a scholar, translator and director. Her areas of research and teaching are contemporary Chinese theater, cross-cultural exchange and performance, Asian American theatre, translation and sport as performance. Publications include the books Significant Other: Staging the American in China (2004) and Voices Carry: Behind Bars and Backstage During China's Revolution and Reform (2009), the autobiography of the late Chinese actor and cultural diplomat Ying Ruocheng. She is editor of the anthology I Love XXX and Other Plays by Meng Jinghui (2017).

She wrote the introduction to the new edition of Arthur Miller's 1984 book 'Death of a Salesman' in Beijing (2015). Her articles have been published in TDR, Theatre Journal, Asian Theatre Journal, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, and other journals. She was selected as an Oriental Scholar Distinguished Professor at Shanghai Theatre Academy (2015-2018) by the Chinese Ministry of Education. Susan C. W. Abbotson (series editor) is Professor of Dramatic Literature at Rhode Island College, USA.