El 27 de julio de 2023 se conmemoró el 70 aniversario de la firma del armisticio que puso pausa a la guerra de Corea. Desde esa fecha, la situación de una península dividida y el estado latente del conflicto armado sigue siendo la realidad imperante, a pesar de los numerosos intentos de transformarla por parte de los principales actores regionales y de muchos otros agentes de la comunidad internacional. ¿A qué se debe esta anomalía histórica? ¿Por qué ha sido tan difícil establecer un acuerdo de paz que ponga fin a la condición que genera tantas tensiones? En esta obra colectiva analizamos diversos aspectos de una problemática compleja, como el proceso de división de la península coreana, la guerra cuyo carácter civil y, a la vez, internacional determinó las dinámicas de seguridad regional, el fracaso de los intentos tempranos para establecer un régimen de paz, el programa nuclear norcoreano y las sanciones que buscan revertir su desarrollo, así como las consecuencias que todo eso tiene para la creación de confianza y la cooperación. También se estudian las políticas seguidas por los protagonistas, Corea del Norte y Corea del Sur, y de las potencias con intereses en la región. En conjunto, los capítulos que componen este libro proporcionan un panorama completo y objetivo sobre los prospectos de paz y la unificación, con perspectivas críticas que desafían los lugares comunes de una discusión maniquea en la que todas las partes son víctimas y beneficiarios del statu quo.

Hodja Nasreddin Mulá Efendi, conocido como Afanti en China, es el notorio sabio tonto de la tradición folclórica musulmana. Sus anécdotas se han propagado desde Medio Oriente a través de Europa hasta Asia Central, diseminando el ingenio mordaz del risueño y aparente ingenuo mulá. El presente libro es fruto del trabajo colaborativo realizado en los Talleres de traducción chino-español de la Licenciatura en Traducción de la ENALLT durante la pandemia de COVID-19. Gracias a la labor apasionada de los alumnos de las primeras tres generaciones y a la iniciativa del PUEAA, hoy los lectores mexicanos tienen en sus manos alrededor de doscientos cuentos y bromas que les brindarán la llave del cofre de Afanti, lleno de humor y sabiduría.

La publicación de este libro se realiza con motivo del quincuagésimo aniversario de las relaciones diplomáticas entre China y México.

Este libro revisa distintos aspectos de la tradición clásica de la India con especial énfasis en la diversidad y el cambio cultural. Así, con base en una amplia variedad de fuentes sánscritas, el libro propone un horizonte de comprensión más allá del estereotipo moderno, que ve en la India una realidad a la vez íntima y exótica donde el tiempo parece detenerse, y en cambio ofrece una mirada de conjunto: en la identidad y la diferencia, en la tradición y la novedad, en el canon y la diversidad. La fórmula “el loto en el estanque” evoca metafóricamente este complejo intercambio de fuerzas y nos invita a mirar más allá del loto —símbolo orientalista de pureza y espiritualidad―, hacia el estanque completo de la India clásica. Desde esta perspectiva, los diez ensayos que conforman el libro buscan mostrar que, si bien la cultura clásica de la India se constituyó alrededor de núcleos dominantes en los ámbitos cósmico, ritual, social, filosófico, etc., dicho canon mantuvo siempre una relación simbiótica con las periferias y, más aún, cobra pleno sentido en relación con ciertas aspiraciones comunes e importantes coyunturas históricas y sociales. Como complemento obligado, el libro incluye una sección de traducciones de pasajes clave en obras clásicas como el Mahābhārata y el Rāmāyaṇa, las primeras directamente del sánscrito al español.

Almost thirty years after the fall of the USSR, Central Asia remains one of the most forgotten regions on the planet. However, its relevance is growing due to its energetic and strategic importance since September 11, 2001 and the US attack against the Taliban in Afghanistan a month later. Since then, Americans, Russians and Chinese have wanted to influence the region, which is of great geopolitical importance due to its size, geographical position, natural resources and the role played by various countries within it. As a result, Central Asia has become an area of indisputable importance at both regional and international levels, which is why its study is essential today. Thus, this book analyzes how world powers are trying to define their relationships with the five countries within Central Asia and in so doing, it offers a contemporary geopolitical vision of a region that is important for its geography and resources.

This book is a reflective and critical history about the shaping of the Mouride confraternity, a Sufi Islamic grouping originally from Senegambia that has extended its links across borders thanks to the contemporary migratory phenomenon. The author traces the ideological and organizational foundations of the Mouride to the expansion of their practices and beliefs in the era of globalization, delving into the nature of the relationship between religion, secular politics and migration, elements that in synthesis explain the configuration of the confraternity. The originality of the approach of this study lies in its methodology: the objective is to analyze the process of consolidation of the Mouride community at an international level from the temporality and conception of the confraternity itself, contrasting sources of the latter with Western sources and making a reading that questions the vision of Eurocentric historiography.

The Korean peninsula is one of the regions that are currently under constant observation in the complex international mosaic. Characterized by its peculiar economic and political dynamics, today it has an emerging cultural representation that has managed to transcend the world.

For this reason, this book deals with topics that contribute to the understanding of the problems that define part of the current peninsular reality. It analyzes economic and political issues, which are undoubtedly essential for approaching the study of the Korean peninsula. However, the book reflects on the importance of the study of both Koreas from a social and cultural perspective, providing the reader with a human and deep analysis of the Korean societies, allowing them to learn about and reflect on phenomena and problems of the peninsular daily life.

In this way, under a multidisciplinary approach, the importance of each of the Republics in the current world context is shown, a perspective that also combines fundamental issues on culture and society such as religion, language and cultural consumption.

The story of the People's Combatants of Iran (Moyahedin-e Jalq-e Iran) is the sad saga of the noblest hopes and aspirations of a revolutionary mobilization that became distorted over time into a set of betrayals that let down each and every revolutionary ideal of 20th century Iran. This distortion transformed them into a vulgar and violent cult that abandoned even its own promises of change and social justice, so that it is safe to say that the story of the Moyahedin sums up in itself the best and the worst of contemporary Iranian political culture.

This book is a long-term and unique Spanish-language research on this controversial organization. It is a manuscript elaborated with the help of primary sources, interviews with Iranian politicians, activists, former members and intellectuals specialized in the subject, and the result of a series of research stages carried out between 2011 and 2019 in Tehran, Madrid, Paris, Washington and New York, in which the necessary material was recovered to document the trajectory of the group and its ways of articulating interests with political actors as varied as Ayatollah Khomeini and Saddam Hussein to people like John Bolton and Turki Al Fasal, for whom this group has been attractive throughout its history not so much for its ideology, but for the military potential and the information networks it has always had inside Iran.

Three decades after the birth of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum, profound changes have been observed in the international economic system. Today, this intergovernmental forum faces major challenges in implementing its ambitious agenda in the areas of economic liberalization, trade facilitation and cooperation among member countries. Readers of this book will find in it a detailed diagnosis of its evolution and achievements, but also of the problems it faces in the present "crisis of multilateralism", triggered by the neo-protectionist policies of the United States. In order to achieve this objective, leading national researchers from public and private higher education institutions, most of which are members of the Mexican Consortium of APEC Study Centers, were invited to participate under the leadership of the APEC Study Center located within the University Program for Asian and African Studies (PUEAA) of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).

More than a linear, chronological development, the reader will appreciate that this volume was built around an idea, or a set of ideas, about what India represents. It is, of course, a limited space, an invention, and for this reason the title itself shows a conscious effort, hopelessly incomplete, to organize a series of knowledge around a topic that overflows in all aspects: studies on India.

It is common that - from an academic point of view - modern India, classical India and all the other Indies are studied separately. There is usually little communication between the different types of specialists, some closer to social disciplines, others to the humanities and the arts.

However, this frequent disconnection exists only in the formal sphere, since a glance at any of the works that make up this book is enough to realize that there is a constant dialogue between them through which there is a kind of coming and going throughout history and academic disciplines.

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.

Relations between Mexico and Japan have taken a vertiginous course in recent decades, which propose the need to understand the nation of the Rising Sun not only from a commercial point of view but also from a political, religious, aesthetic and fine arts point of view. In this sense, Yukio Mishima stands as a spokesperson par excellence that, through literature, theatre, film and even modelling, is a parameter in Mexico to understand our partner on the other side of the Pacific.

In this work, he offers different perspectives from Mexican and Japanese experts who, summoned by the University Program of Studies on Asia and Africa (PUEAA-UNAM), from literature, diplomacy, hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, translation, peace studies and politics offer interpretations of Mishima's legacy while allowing us to know and understand Japan from the second half of the 20th century.