Raúl Ramírez Ruiz is a Professor of Contemporary History at the Rey Juan Carlos University (Madrid) and Director of the Research Group on Spain-China Relations at the URJC (GIRECh-URJC). As a sinologist, he has been a Visiting Professor with a scholarship from the “José Castillejo” Research Foundation of the Government of Spain for Young Doctors at the Center for China Studies Abroad at the East China Normal University (ECNU). He was awarded a scholarship as a visiting professor of the “Understanding China. Program of New Sinology” by the Confucius Institute Headquarters. He has been invited to give lectures on Chinese history and China-Spain relations at the following Chinese universities: East China Normal University (Shanghai); Shanghai International Studies University (Shanghai); Renmin University (Beijing); Peking University (Beijing); Lüliang University (Shanxi) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS). Member of the International Confucian Association and author of three monographs focused on the history of China and Asia and dozens of academic articles published in Spanish, English and Chinese. He has directed and been the first author of the work “Asian Studies in Spain: Analysis, Evolution and Perspectives” (2024), a work that analyses the situation of “Chinese studies” in Spain from its beginnings in 1978 to the present.
schoolRey Juan Carlos University, Research Center for Ibero-American Studies of the Rey Juan Carlos University, Historical and Social Studies, Spanish Language, Literature, Moral Philosophy and Specific Didactics, Madrid, Spain.Rey Juan Carlos UniversitySpainMadrid, SpainRey Juan Carlos University, Research Center for Ibero-American Studies of the Rey Juan Carlos University, Historical and Social Studies, Spanish Language, Literature, Moral Philosophy and Specific Didactics, Madrid, Spain.
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