She holds a PhD in Classical Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1999), where she received the Alfonso Caso Medal for the best doctoral dissertation of that year. She is a Full Researcher at the Center for Classical Studies, Institute of Philological Research, UNAM, and a member of the National System of Research (SNI). She has taught courses such as Classical Tradition in Mexico, Latin, Greek and Etymology, and, since 1988, Legal Latin at the Faculty of Law. She also serves as a graduate advisor in the UNAM Postgraduate Program in Letters. Her main research focuses on the philological analysis of Roman legal sources and their reception in Mexico, as well as on general and specific etymology. In recent years, has also worked on legal, scientific, and artistic works from the late 18th century. She served as Coordinator of the Center for Classical Studies at the Institute for Philological Research (2006-2009) and Director of this institute (2009-2013). In 2012, she promoted the creation of the University Seminar on Asia Studies (SUEA, now PUEAAO) with the goal of fostering philological studies on Asian cultures. Through this initiative, she supported academic events on Korean and Japanese studies and encouraged the establishment of the International Colloquium of Chinese and Mexican Studies in 2014, which continues to this day.
As a result of a shared effort between educational institutions in China and Mexico, the book China and Mexico: 45 Years of Diplomatic and Cultural Relations is presented, which consists of three main sections: Social Sciences, Humanities and Natural Sciences.
In the first section, the reader will find diplomatic, economic, social and legal topics, considered essential to deepen understanding between both countries. Subsequently, topics on the dominance of the Spanish and Chinese languages, their translation and literary studies; to this are added questions about art and society from a transcultural and trans-historical perspective. Finally, geological and environmental disciplines are addressed, due to the relevance that they have acquired today for the safeguarding the planet.
The reader will find in the pages of this volume a set of dialogues between specialists from various countries on specific topics about China and Mexico, through which the convening institutions seek knowledge and understanding between both nations inserted in a globalized world.
The work represents a renewed starting point for reflection and promotion of Sino-Mexican relations, which must be extended to the fields of the humanities and social sciences. The book has like immediate precedent the "I International Colloquium of Chinese and Mexican Studies: a permanent cultural dialogue", organized by UNAM and the University of Foreign Studies of Beijing in October 2014, in Mexico.
The text is divided into two main parts made up of experts from various disciplines, of both Mexican and Chinese nationalities, and even from third countries. The first section corresponds to sinology and the field of the humanities and arts in both cultures, while the second addresses issues of the social sciences. The first part is titled ''Sinology and Humanities in China and Mexico.
Historical review and perspectives''. Address issues of sinology and a set of humanistic subjects such as literature, literary translation, linguistic diversity in both nations, teaching of the Chinese and Spanish languages, philosophy, religion, and art. Meanwhile, the second, titled “Chinese society and Mexican society. Historical review and perspectives”, take various subjects of social disciplines such as diplomatic and economic relations between Mexico and China, various topics of sociology, history and comparative legal systems, and incorporates an interesting section about traditional medicine in both countries.
This publication achieves to combine historical and contemporary elements of China and Mexico, which are analyzed from new perspectives to present them to both societies, with the ultimate aim of benefiting their development by updating issues of common interest, which are the basis for build a permanent cultural dialogue. The convening universities thus seek to promote their internationalization process, both for present and future generations.
In the framework of the 400 years since Hasekura arrived in Mexico, the University Seminary of Asian Studies (SUEA), the Institute of Philological Research and the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences through their Center for International Relations, entities of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), undertook the labour of organizing the Japanese Culture Day to commemorate the anniversary of what has traditionally been considered the first Japanese embassy in Mexico: the Hasekura Mission.
This publication is the result of that academic day, this also has the purpose of recovering the memory of the cultural relations between Mexico and Japan. In this way, gives the reader the possibility to get close to know various aspects of Japanese culture in their own field and in their relationship with Mexico. The studies included have a variety of topics that are organized in four sections: 1. Japan as an object of study; 2. The Hasekura Mission: a historical reassessment; 3. The regional economic system and 4. Language and Literature.