Taciana Fisac

Taciana Fisac is Full Professor of Chinese Language and Literature and founder of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid. She has been, among others, a visiting researcher at Stanford, Oxford, Leiden, North Carolina and Ohio State universities, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Peking University and Beijing Foreign Studies University, and a Distinguished Professor at The Open University of Hong Kong. She is the author of numerous publications, mainly on gender, literature and society in China, as well as translations of Chinese literature. Her latest book Claves de la gramática china (2023), has been translated and adapted into Italian and English (Taciana Fisac and Riccardo Moratto, Fundamental Structures of the Chinese Language). In this book it is develoed that Chinese is not a subject-verb-object language, but a a topic-comment language, as is common in colloquial Spanish. In 2005 she was appointed honorary professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University; in 2012 the China Special Book Prize for her contribution to the dissemination of Chinese literature, was awarded by the People's Republic of China. In 2015, on behalf of H.M. the Emperor and the Government of Japan, she was awared with The Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, for promoting culture and understanding between Japan and Spain.