Flora Botton
Flora Botton Beja (born 1 March 1933) is a Mexican
sinologist and gender studies scholar. She was born in Greece, but acquired Spanish nationality through her parents and naturalized as Mexican after her arrival in Mexico in 1949. She was a co-founder of the
gender studies and a pioneer of
Oriental studies programs at
El Colegio de México. She was one of the first academics to focus on China in Mexico and
Latin America. Her works have widely been influential in the region and she was one of the founders of the Asociación Latinoamericana de Estudios de Asia y África (Latin-American Association of Asian and African Studies).
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