1st Edition
Mexico-China Relations Cultural Encounters in a Global Age
Introduction: Mexico-China Relations as a Cultural Encounter 1. Rediscovering the World: Myth, Knowledge and Power in Self-Other Relations 2. The World in Need of Healing: Mexico-China Construction of the Cold War 3. Superficial De-orientalisation, Incomplete Liberation: Neoliberal Rupture in Mexico-China Relations 4. Myths, Markets and Self-Other Encounter: The Birth of the 21st Century in Mexico-China Relations 5. Conclusions
Biography
Francisco Antonio-Alfonso is a career diplomat and scholar of international relations. He earned his PhD in International Relations from St Andrews University and joined Mexico’s Foreign Service in 2016. His research focuses on sinology, alterity construction and global IR theory. He (2021) previously published Our Fragile Bodies: Economic Change, the Nation-State and the Coronavirus Pandemic in E-International Relations and with Karin Fierke (2018), “Language, Entanglement and the New Silk Roads” in Asian Journal of Comparative Politics. He has held diplomatic posts in Beijing and Guangzhou, China.
