This book has three axes of transversal analysis. The first one addresses the experience of economic development in Japan, which went from a model of sustained high growth to a pattern of lower performance, but with a great internationalization of its productive schemes and capital flows.

The second vector analyses the foreign policy responses that the Japanese government has had to the changes in the commercial and financial architecture in the Asia-Pacific, especially to the rise of China as an economic power but also to the emerging schemes for the search for a comprehensive regional economic liberalization process, which the first step, undoubtedly, is represented by the 12-country negotiation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (better known by its acronym TPP).

The third and last one focuses on taking a balance of the initiative called "Abenomics" presented by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, as a mechanism to deal with the long cycle of low growth and attend the emerging challenges of Japanese society. The ten co-authors who participate in the work converge on the idea of reflecting on how Japan has gone through and faced the hasty changes within the contemporary international economy –now more globalized– in the last seven decades that have witnessed the deepest and intense transformations that the world has undergone since the modern era.

In this sense, it is clear that for the Japanese government, both the Abenomics and the TPP possibly represent the most viable responses, but not the only ones to gradually restore economic health and contain the erosion of the social welfare pact to which the Japanese people were able to enjoy in the post-war period. That is the great challenge that the Shinzō Abe government faces at the domestic and international levels.

Since the financial crisis of 2007, a period of restructuring flows and financial intermediaries began. Public credit was opened quickly and without limits to meet the rescue of the banks, but months later it was closed, taking a part of the world to the deep stagnation of our days. Ten years after the outbreak of the economic and financial crisis, no progress was made in solving the biggest problems that triggered it: deregulation and concentration; as well as extreme inequality and its origin.

Under the aegis of Income interest, capital flows, private credit and international financial relations have been reorganized. A phase of regionalization and financial segmentation began amid severe conflicts and political changes. Thus, we have a weak euro zone confronted to the austerity policies; the North-Atlantic English-speaking area in the middle of leaderships changes that slow down and even destroy the spaces of businesses and consortiums expansion, financial and non-financial (but financialized), which were formed and formally structured under the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement and the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Association.

That is why this book asks in the first part: what have been the determining forces in the post-crisis restructuring process, taking account the world geostrategic recomposition. In turn, the second part of this work is dedicated to the analysis, from various dimensions, of the existing contradictions for the reconfiguration of financial and economic spaces in a world weakened by austerity. Analyse especially their intention to achieve new formulas of economic governance in an increasingly global environment, but with the formation of very international financial gains.

Finally, the third part of this book is dedicated to exploiting the very different ways in which all these changes are taking place in Latin American economies, addressing fundamental issues for the regional reality such as the Pacific Alliance, mining corporations, the BRICS, financial systems, microcredits, and finally the growing positioning of financial flows from Asia in Latin America.

The new economic and political reality that is progressively opening towards East Asia and Asia-Pacific, without forgetting the strategic value of Asia Minor and Central Asia, leaves no doubt about the reallocation of assets in central issues such as economic growth, growth per capita, fabrication of manufactures, export of goods, accumulation of world reserves, contribution to world growth, etc. formerly dominated by European countries and the United States, now they are led by East Asia and China.

These changes are generating a new economic reality, as well as a new economic, commercial, political and social miscegenation that is difficult to predict, by involving not only economic goods and services in their transformation but also by including powerful civilizations that share and compete day by day.

For Mexico and Latin America, today absent from this historical phenomenon of economic and political transfer between countries and between regions, the immediate responsibility is generated to transform themselves into actors and not witnesses of this change.

To go to the accumulated experience and move away from the easy resource of the fascination for the other; of the false political consolation of a hegemony change; to demonstrate their coming of age by maturely exercising the defense and promotion of their national and regional positions, transcending the ancestral practice of 500 years of only selling raw materials, to fully enter the only successful economic door of the 21st century, which it is that of the intelligence services.

The economic-political transfer from the Atlantic to the Pacific is an event of the greatest importance, which has a direct impact on the public and private agenda of all the nations of this new global society. In any of its scenes, their effects will continue to be felt directly in the economic, political and social life of the various countries, as is already the case to date.

It is a work composed of eight chapters based on the analysis of historical and ethnographic sources. The authors build an image of society and politics in contemporary India; highlights the fundamental role of culture since culture not only cuts across all fields of public and political life throughout the history of the South Asian region but is also a central element in understanding power relations in that region.

In Chapter 1, Saurabh Dube raises a question and even a proposal for the analysis of studies related to India: What is the relationship between culture and power? Chapters 2 and 3 examine the gender issue. Mrinalini Sinha addresses feminist research and the construction of an imaginary of democracy and a Nation-State closely linked to the concept and role of women in India.

For her part, Ishita Banerjee addresses the way in which democracy, equality and social justice are conceived and delves into the interaction and intersection of this with religion and gender, an intersection that is the central axis of this chapter. The last four sections turn around a common theme: current democracy.

Chapter 4 presents a contemporary analysis of the history of the barbarian in India and its various uses. Sanjay Subrahmanyam shows how recent faits-divers provide an overview of who and how the barbarian is seen in contemporary times, as well as its consequences.

In Chapter 5, Laura Carballido presents an overview of contemporary democracy in India (2011) and, through the presentation of some data, the author shows that the largest democracy in the world is located in India, as well as what this implies at 30 years of their independence Fernanda Vázquez begins chapter six wondering if being the largest democracy in the world implies being a successful and effective democracy? The author explores democracy in India to offer the reader the achievements, tensions, challenges, scope, and limits of this political structure and emphasizes how and to what extent the scope of the democratic system is limited by the social and economic inequality that persists there.

For her part, in Chapter 7 Beatriz Martínez addresses the specific issue of the 2014 electoral process and explains how and why it was marked by Narendra Modi, offers an analysis of the performance of this character, and takes up, among other elements, the accusations by handling the Gujarat riots.

Finally, through an analysis divided into 3 time periods, Mario González provides an overview of the environment in which political alternation has taken place and takes into account that the party system in India must be canalized and guarantee ideological-political pluralism, social and cultural. It is then an important contribution to the understanding of contemporary India from the Social Sciences and Humanities in Mexico.

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.