Mexico-China Relations

This book demonstrates how MexicöChina relations embodied a complex process of knowledge formation, confronting their socially constructed conceptions of time, space and otherness. Cultural Encounters in a Global Age will appeal to scholars of IR theory, political theory, cultural studies, and cultural influences on foreign policy.

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.