Seán Golden

Seán Golden is Full Professor of East Asian Studies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB). He is Senior Associate Researcher of the Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (CIDOB) and Associate Professor at the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI). He holds a PhD in Literature from the University of Connecticut (USA). He has taught at universities in the USA and China, and has been visiting professor in Hong Kong, China and Venice. His research work involves comparative cultural studies, the construction of political discourse in China and the development of a Chinese school of international relations theory. He is former Director of the East Asia Studies & Research Centre of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), member of the Advisory Board of the ASEF Higher Education Programme (ASEF) & member of the Executive Board of EastAsiaNet (European Research School Network for Contemporary East Asian Studies). He is also member of the UAB InterAsia Research Group. He has edited, co-edited and translated numerous translations of Chinese poetry, classical and contemporary, as well as publications in Chinese Studies. He authored the book China en perspectiva: análisis e interpretaciones (2012).