Zoltán Biedermann is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies of University College London (UCL). He works on the Portuguese Empire in Asia with a focus on early modern diplomacy, imperial literature, cartography and the politics of space. He is the author of The Portuguese in Sri Lanka and South India (2014), The Historical Atlas of the Persian Gulf (2006) and Soqotra: Geschichte einer christlichen Insel im Indischen Ozean (2006). He is the recipient of the Ronald Tress Prize for Research Excellence (2012), and has been recently elected a corresponding member of the Academy of the Portuguese Marine.
A new take on the relationship between Latin America and China, from pre-Columbian voyages to 21st-century geopolitics. Did the Chinese visit America before Columbus? Was the poet César Vallejo secretly poisoned by Soviets? Can we read the US-China tech-war in a video game?
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