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.