Thinking Colours: Perception, Translation and Representation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781443875295)

Victoria Bogushevskaya graduated from Beijing Language and Culture University, China, and received Honours in Chinese Linguistics from Vladivostok Far Eastern State University, Russia. Her doctorate in Chinese Linguistics was awarded by the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia. Victoria currently teaches Chinese Language and Civilisation at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore and the History of Chinese Art at the University of Urbino, Italy. Her main fields of research include cross-cultural differences in colour categorisation, colour naming, psycholinguistics, historical semantics and translation studies.

Elisabetta Colla is Assistant Professor in the Asian Studies graduate programme in the Faculty of Arts of Lisbon University. She received her PhD in Studies of Culture from the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon. She currently teaches Asian Art, Introduction to Asian Literatures and History of Ancient and Imperial China at Lisbon University and the Portuguese Catholic University, Lisbon. She is a correspondent of the International Confucian Association and a member of the Centre of Communication and Culture, Lisbon. Her main fields of research: East Asian Studies and Macao studies.