PUEAA

Jenny Acosta

Pharmaceutical chemist and biologist, from the Faculty of Chemistry of the UNAM. In 1997 she began studying Chinese language at the CELE of UNAM, which she completed in 2001. In that year she took the Teacher Training course at CELE and has obtained several scholarships for teacher updating and improvement, all of them in Chinese language. Since 2011 he has been an Associate Professor B, T.C at Escuela Nacional de Lenguas, Lingüística y Traducción (ENALLT). From January 2009 to date she has served as Director of the Confucius Institute at UNAM, located in the Palace of Autonomy, in the Historic Center of Mexico City. She is a member of the Center for China-Mexico Studies of the School of Economics and in 2010 she was appointed President of the Mexican Association of Chinese Teachers (AMPCH). Member of the Board of Directors of the Regional Center of Confucius Institutes of Latin America (CRICAL) from 2014-2017.

Related publications

Cariños y recuerdos de una pandemia

Cariños y recuerdos de una pandemia reúne los escritos de 15 integrantes del Programa Universitario de Estudios sobre Asia y África (PUEAA), quienes recurren al género epistolario a fin de plasmar sus vivencias durante la pandemia por Covid-19.

Como escribe Alicia Girón, los integrantes del PUEAA "soñábamos con realizar actividades en diferentes lugares, como Corea, China, Japón, India, Marruecos, Senegal, Sudáfrica y España [...] pero todo cambió el 16 de marzo, cuando se decretó el cierre de todas las actividades". Así, las cartas contenidas en este libro están dirigidas en su mayoría a seres queridos o admirados que viven fuera de México. De este modo, los autores nos permiten vislumbrar no sólo su propio mundo privado e intereses de estudio sino también el de sus interlocutores, dándonos por ende una muestra de su sensibilidad ante un evento que ha afectado a todo el mundo. En efecto, la variedad de termas expuestos en las cartas van desde la nostalgia del encuentro físico, hasta la angustia debido al número de muertos y contagiados, pasando por los avatares de la vida cotidiana.

Acompañado de las ilustraciones de Yussef A. Galicia, Cariños y recuerdos de una pandemia revela con delicadeza el "compromiso de cada autor [...] tuvo para transmitir sus vivencias durante la pandemia de Covid-19 en el 2020".

China and Mexico: 45 years of diplomatic and cultural relations

2019 | Alicia Girón | Aurelia Vargas | Guillermo Pulido | Liu JianMore information

China and Mexico. A cultural dialogue from the Humanities and Social Sciences

2015 | Alicia Girón | Aurelia Vargas | Guillermo PulidoMore information

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.