Manel Ollé

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Manel Ollé is a lecturer in History and Culture of Modern and Contemporary China in the Department of Humanities at the Pompeu Fabra University of Barcelona (UPF). He is also coordinator of the UPF Master of Chinese Studies. His main research fields are Maritime China in 16th and 17th century, Europeans Perceptions of China and Southeast Asian Chinese Diaspora. He is a member of the Asia Pacific Study Group at the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and Visitant Researcher at the National Research Centre of Overseas Sinology from the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU Beijing). He is co-director of the project “Southern European Historical Materials Concerning China in the 16th and 17th Centuries”. He has published several books, essays and articles on Chinese history, such as La invención de China (2001), La Empresa de la China: de la armada invencible al Galeón de Manila (2002) or Made in China: el despertar social, político y cultural de China (2005). He has also translated several Chinese authors and books into Catalan.