María Elvira Ríos

Magister and PhD in Asian and African Studies, with specialization in China, from the Center for Asian and African Studies of El Colegio de México (2015). She studied Mandarin Chinese at Beijing Culture and Language University (2003-2005) and has HSK5 level of the language (2016). She has obtained the Japan Student Services Organization grant from the Government of Japan, for research at Tsukuba University, Japan (2010), the Mustakis Foundation grant (2014) and the "Understanding China Fellowship" Confucius China Studies Program (2017), both for research at Beijing Culture and Language University, China, as well as the grant from the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China and at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, to participate in the "Visiting Program for Young Sinologist" program. She has published her research on Buddhism and Chinese culture in Revista Mapocho (2008), Revista de Estudos Chineses (2010), El Colegio de México (2012, 2014 and 2017), National Autonomous University of Mexico (2013), Zhejiang University (2015), Freie Universität (2016), Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (2016), Complutense University of Madrid (2017) and in the Center for Judaic Studies of the University of Chile (2018). She is coordinator of the book Nuevos diálogos: Asia y África desde la mirada latinoamericana, El Colegio de México (2019). She has been academic advisor of the Chinese Language Project of the Ministry of Education of Chile (2015-2018), researcher-coordinator of the Bachelor of Chinese Studies project, Universidad Santo Tomás (2018). She currently teaches Buddhism courses at the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Chile and is a Fondecyt postdoctoral fellow (2019-2021) at the Institute of Aesthetics of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile, with the research La reflexión ecológica del budismo chino (Ecological reflection of Chinese Buddhism).