LU, Yuh-jen (Ph.D., New York University) was Professor in the Department of Ethnic Relations and Cultures at National Dong Hwa University, where she retired in 2018. She is a nominator of the Pulima Art Award and the author of A Village beyond the Tribal Walls: Dancing Tourism, Tourist Dancing(2018), now in its second edition. A founding member of the Neo-classic Dance Company in Taiwan, she continues to pursue dance research and most recent essay “De-centering ‘China,’ Becoming Floating Signifiers: The Chinese Diaspora in U.S. Modern Dance (1989-1995)” appears in the Taiwan Dance Research Journal (14). She is currently working on a book about dancing modernity.