Lu XU
Research Field: cultural tourism and rural revitalization, anthropology of media, political economy of communication
Lu Xu received her Ph.D. in communication from Fudan University and was a visiting fellow at the department of anthropology at Harvard University. Before that, she got her Bachelor's Degree from Fudan University in Journalism and her Master's Degree from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences in Media and Communication.
With a focus on the critical practices of cultural tourism in ethnic minority regions of southern China, she engaged in the practice turn of media studies to explore the tension between strategic representations on the intimate level and the institutionalized and formalized discourses. She has authored numerous academic papers that have been published in CSSCI journals like Journalism Research, Press Circles, Journal of Southwest Minzu University, and Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, several of which were reprinted by Renmin University's Information Center and Chinese Social Sciences Net.
She engaged in activities related to the cultural industry at the same time. She has participated in several cultural planning projects in Chengdu, Guiyang, and Shanghai initiated by the government. Since she previously worked for a digital and cultural start-up company, she has also contributed to a number of digital projects, such as the Majestic Theater's virtual online exhibition, interactive CPC Fourth National Congress Memorial Hall programs, and Songjiang District's cultural and historical Thematic Exhibition pages.