Dr. Meiqin Wang is a professor of Asian art history at California State University, Northridge. She earned her doctorate in Art History from the State University of New York at Binghamton. Her research focuses on contemporary Chinese art, particularly in relation to commercialization, globalization, and urbanization. She has published extensively on topics such as artist villages, creative cultural industries, and art’s role in urbanization. Currently, her research explores socially engaged art, including public art, artivism, and ecological art in East Asia. Dr. Wang’s major publications include the monographs Urbanization and Contemporary Chinese Art (Routledge, 2015) and Socially Engaged Art in Contemporary China (Routledge, 2019). She has also edited and co-edited several volumes, including Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China (Amsterdam University Press, 2018), Socially Engaged Public Art in East Asia (Vernon Press, 2022), and Art in Action: The Discursive Practices of Chinese Socially Engaged Art in the 21st Century (Culture Relics Publishing House, 2023).