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New article on academic freedom in China and its global implications

Published 17 February 2021 Image credit of Utrikesmagasinet. Foto: STR/AFP/TT Marina Svensson has written an article on academic freedom in Utrikesmagasinet published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. The article (in Swedish) provides an overview to the issue of academic freedom in China and its global implications. It also briefly addresses the wider and general debates on academ

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-academic-freedom-china-and-its-global-implications - 2025-03-15

New publication on internet, reality, and temporal autonomy in China

Published 26 February 2021 Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash.com In The Social Construction of Internet Addiction in China: Youth between Reality and Temporal Autonomy in the Documentary Web Junkie, Annika Pissin addresses issues surrounding the social construction of internet addiction, focusing on conceptualisations of reality, escape, hope, and time. Drawing on a critical realist account of semios

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-internet-reality-and-temporal-autonomy-china - 2025-03-15

New article on censorship, academic freedom, and academic publishing in/on China

Published 9 March 2021 A page ripped out from The Economist by China's censorship department. Attribution: 闫恩铭/Enming Yan. Wikimedia Commons Since 2017 the international Chinese Studies community has been shocked to discover that many of the major commercial academic publishers have been actively working with the Chinese censors to limit access to ‘politically sensitive’ books and articles within

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-censorship-academic-freedom-and-academic-publishing-inon-china - 2025-03-15

New article on the Chinese digital society

Published 26 March 2021 Photo by Rodion Kutsaev on Unsplash Marina Svensson has published an article in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs entitled “‘Crazy Jack’ and the ‘Gay CEO’: Visions, Entrepreneurship, and the Chinese State in the New Digital Economy.” This article analyses the visions, careers, and companies of Jack Ma of Alibaba and Geng Le of Blue City. Jack Ma is a well-known busines

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-chinese-digital-society - 2025-03-15

We are happy to announce the launch of the People’s Map of Global China

Published 19 April 2021 The People’s Map of Global China tracks China’s complex and rapidly changing international activities by engaging an equally global civil society. The Map is the result of a collaboration between academics, NGOs, journalists, trade unions, and the public at large to explore various dimensions of Global China in their localities. It was created with the support of the Centre

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/we-are-happy-announce-launch-peoples-map-global-china - 2025-03-15

Podcast on the politics of online news in Cambodia

Published 20 May 2021 Image credit of NIAS Astrid Norén-Nilsson discusses her research about the Cambodian online news outlet Fresh News with Duncan McCargo. In this podcast, Astrid Norén-Nilsson  discusses her latest research about the Cambodian online news outlet Fresh News with Duncan McCargo, the Director of NIAS. Fresh News has become an indispensable source of information for Cambodia’s poli

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/podcast-politics-online-news-cambodia - 2025-03-15

Cambodia Update for Politics in Action 2021

Published 21 May 2021 Image credit of Sydney Southeast Asia Centre - SSEAC Astrid Norén-Nilsson discussed recent political developments in Cambodia for Sydney Southeast Asia Centre's flagship Politics in Action forum Drawing upon expertise from around the world, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre's flagship Politics in Action forum provides up-to-date information on developments in Southeast Asia releva

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/cambodia-update-politics-action-2021 - 2025-03-15

New article on the politics of the Olympics!

Published 21 May 2021 Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons As Japanese public opinion turns resolutely against summer Olympics, will Tokyo cancel? Paul O'Shea has published an article in the Conversation on the topic of the upcoming Olympic Games. Should Japan cancel the games - can Japan cancel them? Although public opinion is overwhelming against them, there are

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-politics-olympics - 2025-03-15

How safe are the Tokyo Olympics from COVID-19?

Published 23 June 2021 Paul O'Shea talks to Al Jazeera International about the politics behind the Olympics. Paul appeared on 'The Stream' alongside a panel of academics and experts, sharing his analysis of Japanese politics and how it might affect the staging of the Olympics this summer. You can watch his contribution on the following link, at the 20 minute mark (YouTube)

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/how-safe-are-tokyo-olympics-covid-19 - 2025-03-15

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies are hiring one or two researchers

Published 24 June 2021 The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies are hiring one or two researchers, preferably with a focus on contemporary China, 50% to 100% according to agreement, during the period 2021-08-16 to 2021-12-31.  The work consists of assisting in the preparation of a EU application with deadline 7 October, and then research and some administrative work.  Deadline 23rd July.  

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-east-and-south-east-asian-studies-are-hiring-one-or-two-researchers - 2025-03-15

Special Issue on Cambodia's Turn to Hegemonic Authoritarianism

Published 13 August 2021 Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has guest edited a special issue for Contemporary Southeast Asia The special issue, guest edited by Neil Loughlin and Astrid Norén-Nilsson, sheds new light on the CPP's ongoing attempts to recalibrate its mode of governance and the future it envisages for Cambodia. It includes two articles by Astrid Norén-Nilsson: "Introduction to Special Issue: The

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/special-issue-cambodias-turn-hegemonic-authoritarianism - 2025-03-15

Battle of the BRI’s - How the West plans to challenge China’s rise through infrastructure, and why it might not succeed.

Published 18 August 2021 Will the appeal of the Western-led global democratic order triumph over China’s pragmatic approach to infrastructure investments? In this op-ed, Tabita Rosendal Ebbesen, PhD student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, explores the possibility that the two new infrastructure investment initiatives proposed by the US and EU might pose a ch

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/battle-bris-how-west-plans-challenge-chinas-rise-through-infrastructure-and-why-it-might-not-succeed - 2025-03-15

Intresserad att skriva en rapport on bilden av Öst- och Sydöstasien i läroböcker/undervisning i skolan?

Published 24 August 2021 photo from pexels.com/ Vi vill få en bild av vad svenska ungdomar lär sig om Öst- och sydöstasien i skolan. Detta kan hjälpa oss förstå vilken kunskap unga människor idag har om regionen. I dagens globala samhälle och med Asiens växande betydelse är det intressant att se hur regionen beskrivs, vilka frågor som belyses, och vilka eventuella brister det finns i läroböcker, s

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/intresserad-att-skriva-en-rapport-bilden-av-ost-och-sydostasien-i-larobockerundervisning-i-skolan - 2025-03-15

Op-ed in The Guardian on the state of Japanese democracy

Published 13 September 2021 首相官邸ホームページ, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons Paul O'Shea has co-authored an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper on the past, present, and future of Japanese democracy. What makes a democracy democratic? If one-party dominates, and there is no real choice, is it still a democracy? Japan faces an election, but with no viable opposition emerging to challenge the rulin

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/op-ed-guardian-state-japanese-democracy - 2025-03-15

New publication on Japanese foreign policy.

Published 6 October 2021 Paul O'Shea has written a chapter on the topic of Japanese foreign policy under the Democratic Party of Japan. Governing from 2009-2012, the landslide election of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) was supposed to usher in a new era in Japanese politics. Within three years, they were out of office, and shortly afterwards the party dissolved. This chapter examines the DPJ'

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-japanese-foreign-policy - 2025-03-15

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Pragmatism over Morals?

Published 19 October 2021 Is China beating the US and EU through its pragmatic approach towards cooperation under the “Belt and Road” Initiative (“一带一路”倡议) (BRI)? In this opinion piece, Tabita Rosendal argues that China’s “pragmatic values”, combined with investments, may outcompete the US’ “Build Back Better World” (B3W) and the EU’s “Connecting Europe Globally” (CEG). Read the full text on E-Int

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-pragmatism-over-morals - 2025-03-15

Veg*nism in the Sino-Cultural Sphere

Published 22 November 2021 Our PhD student Gina Song Lopez recently got to discuss her research on veg*n and plant-based food advocacy in East Asia with the Society for the Psychology of Human-Animal Intergroup Relations (PHAIR). In the interview, she elaborates on the spread of ‘new’ approaches to veganism and vegetarianism in the Sino-cultural context as well as what the animal advocacy and vega

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/vegnism-sino-cultural-sphere - 2025-03-15

New publication on Cambodian politics

Published 7 December 2021 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published an article on regal legitimisations in connection with Cambodia's shift to hegemonic authoritarianism The article, published in the Journal of Contemporary Asia, analyses how Cambodia's transition from competitive to hegemonic authoritarianism has been teeming with references to the monarchy. It investigates the meanings and messages att

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-cambodian-politics - 2025-03-15

Congratulations to Astrid and Nicholas who have both received research grants!

Published 10 December 2021 Astrid has received funding from Formas, a government research council for sustainable development, to lead a three-year research project on the intersection between authoritarianism and the pandemic in Cambodia. Nicholas has received funding from the Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation for a three-year project examining informal Chinese resource extraction globally,

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/congratulations-astrid-and-nicholas-who-have-both-received-research-grants - 2025-03-15