Mariana Escalante

Doctorate in Political and Social Sciences at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) and Master in International Relations from the University of Peking, where all the courses, thesis and defense were in Chinese. She was a fellow of the National Council for Science and Technology (CONACYT) and the Scholarship Council of the Chinese Government. She worked as an editor and content creator in Spanish, Chinese and English in the Regional Office for Latin America of the Xinhua News Agency. She has taught Mandarin classes at the Confucius Institute in Mexico City, the Confucius Institute and the Center for the Teaching of Foreign Languages (CELE) of the UNAM, as well as in the China House of the Metropolitan Autonomous University (UAM). She is the teacher in charge of the course "China: language and culture", taught at the Institute of Philological Research (IIFL) and the Center for Teaching for Foreigners (CEPE) of UNAM. She is a member of the Academic Working Group of the University Program of Studies on Asia and Africa of UNAM. Her lines of research focus on the China-Mexico relationship, Chinese foreign policy, contemporary Chinese society, mutual perspectives between China and Mexico, the teaching of Chinese, among others.