Zi-Ying Tsui, PhD

Teaching Artists and Scholar

Postdoctoral fellow, Chinese Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Editorial board member, thINKingDANCE Journal, Philadelphia

We Should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at once.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

about

ABOUT

Ziying Tsui (Cui) is a scholar, choreographer, and dancer who currently works as a Visiting Lecturer at Duke Kunshan University and an editorial board member of the thINKingDANCE journal based in Philadelphia.

Her research focuses on the hybridity of Chinese dance and ballet in postsocialist China, as well as the development of ballet and transnational Chinese dance practices.

She will become a postdoctoral scholar in Chinese studies at Nanyang Technological University in January 2026.