Marusia Musacchio
Founder and Director
International affairs analyst specializing in China. After 30 years studying the country, she decided to systematize what she had learned and create the Tinta China research collective.
Tinta China Collective
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In the Spanish-speaking world, the prevailing perception is that China is a foreign actor — even an untrustworthy one. China is seen as the region’s antipode, not just geographically but linguistically: we are separated by the world’s largest ocean, the Pacific, and by a sea of ideograms in which our meager alphabet seems adrift. Hence the Spanish expression «está en chino» ("it's in Chinese") is often used to describe anything we find incomprehensible. Yet this perception is a poor compass for understanding the ties between China and those of us who call Spanish home.
At Tinta China, we seek to understand whether China really is as foreign to us as it seems, or whether a series of historical and cultural circumstances have led us to see it that way. We are a research collective that combines qualitative and quantitative analysis to understand what we think about China, and why. Everything we publish is grounded in archival work and rigorous research across multiple datasets.
Our hypothesis is that the Spanish-speaking world, and Latin America in particular, keeps an intimate distance from China. We launched Tinta China to put that hypothesis to the test. Join us as we follow the evidence.
Tinta China Collective
Maura Roldán
Founder and Research Director
Specialist in geography and data. She has ten years of experience designing research methodologies to collect and integrate data on security and markets in Latin America.
Carlos Calderón
Data scientist
Physics graduate from UNAM and master's in economics from El Colegio de México. He has worked with governments, NGOs, academia and the private sector on data analysis and interpretation.
Paulina Arriaga
Researcher
International relations specialist and psychologist with 15 years of experience in applied public policy research. Her focus is citizen participation, security and health, bridging private actors, civil society and government.
Quetzalli Vázquez
Researcher
Graduate in International Relations; she has assisted on projects related to human rights, social justice, security and gender.
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If you would like to publish with us, Tinta China is looking for new questions, data, and perspectives that can help us better understand the relationship between China and the Spanish-speaking world.
If you need support developing a research project, pursuing a story, or exploring a dataset that may reveal something interesting, get in touch. You do not need to have a finished article. If your proposal fits our editorial focus and we find it compelling, we can work with you to develop it. Our research team can help you explore archives, identify sources, access our datasets, and deepen your research until it becomes an article for publication in Tinta China.
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