Seán Golden, now retired, was Full Professor and Director of the East Asian Studies and Research Centre of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Senior Associate Researcher of the CIDOB (Barcelona Centre for International Affairs) think tank and former Associate Professor of the Barcelona Institute for International Studies. He lived and worked some years in China. Before China, he specialized in Irish Studies, after, in cross-cultural studies, the social history of translation, as well as Chinese thought, politics, and international relations, with numerous publications in English, Spanish and Catalan on these topics.