Ignacio Villagrán is Director of the Argentina-China Studies Center of the School of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Professor of International Politics at the School of Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires, and Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the National University of General Sarmiento (UNGS) . His research focuses on Ancient Chinese political thought and administrative practice and early and medieval Chinese social history and religious practices. Among his numerous publications are “The China Studies in Argentina: A Review and Prospects”(2019), “‘Sturdy Boulders that Protect the Realm’ Early Medieval Chinese Thinkers on Decentralized Governance”(2018), and Being in Time: What Medieval Chinese Theorists can Teach us About Social History (co-authored, 2017).