There are more than a billion Mandarin speakers and about 400 million Spanish speakers in the world. There should be massive exchanges of ideas and texts between these two languages, except that is not the case - yet.

In terms of published writing, there are few translations of works between the two languages. Luckily, that situation is set to change.

"We want to read all about China in the last 100 years, whether it's Lu Xun or Mo Yan, but we don't have enough access," says Monica Ching Hernadez, a Mexican publisher and a professor of Chinese literature at Tecnologico de Monterrey in Mexico.