Dr Federica Mirra is Visiting Research Fellow at Birmingham City University and Module Lead (fixed¿term) at the University of Macerata. Previously, she was a Leverhulme ECR Fellow at the Contemporary Visual Arts Asia (CVAA), School of Arts, Birmingham City University (BCU). Currently, she is working on her single¿authored book, The City as Art: Living Aesthetics in Twenty¿First¿Century China. She is Assistant Editor for the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art.