Joaquín Beltrán Antolín

Joaquín Beltrán Antolín is an anthropologist and professor of East Asian Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is senior fellow at the InterAsia Research Group and member of the East Asian Research Center (CERAO) at the UAB. He is the Head of the Library of Contemporary China from Edicions Bellaterra, Barcelona, and InterAsiaPapers (CERAO-UAB). His main fields of study are international migration and the Chinese diaspora on issues related to identity, economics, education, health, religion, art and cultural production. He has also worked on Chinese politics, society and culture. He authored several books such as Los ocho inmortales cruzan el mar: chinos en Extremo Occidente (2003), Perspectivas chinas (2007), La interculturalitat (2015), Representaciones de China en las Américas y la Península Ibérica (together with Francisco Haro and Amelia Sáiz, 2016); Viaje al centro: el XIX Congreso del Partido Comunista Chino (2017) and Asia Oriental. Transnacionalismo, sociedad y cultura (2021).