Yan Zhenzhen, an Associate Professor at the School of Humanities, Beijing Dance Academy, and received her PhD in Art Theory from Peking University in 2016. Her research interests include dance criticism, intellectual history of contemporary Chinese dance, dance and cultural studies. She has published more than twenty papers and the books Aesthetic Characteristics of Eastern Dance (Social Science Academic Press, 2015), The Discourse Mechanism and Cultural Logic of Memory: The Beginning of Chinese Ethnic and Folk Dance (Peking University Press, 2021), and Criticism and intellectual History of Contemporary Chinese Dance Art (Nankai University Press, 2022).