Xinyu Lü is Zijiang Chair Professor and dean of the School of Communication at East China Normal University (ECNU), Shanghai, China. A specialist in critical communication studies and comparative sociology in Chinese visual culture, mass media and social development, she has written a number of books, including Documenting China: The New Documentary Movement, Writing and What It Obscures, Academic・Media and Publicity and Dislocation:Narrative of China and Visual Politics in the Post-Cold War Era. She also contributed to the book The New Chinese Documentary Film Movement: For the Public Record.