Published 9 January 2018 Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has written a country review on Cambodia in a new book titled "Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia". The chapter examines competing understandings of Cambodian civil society through the prisms of civil society and the state; the role of the international donor community; and the re-emergence of historical civil society. In conclusion, it is

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Published 19 January 2018 Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons Stefan Brehm and Nicholas Loubere have co-authored an article on the Chinese social credit system for The Conversation. The Chinese government’s ongoing attempts to create a social credit system aimed at rating the trustworthiness of people and companies is often depicted as something uniquely Chinese. In this article Stefa

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Published 22 January 2018 Photo by Nicholas Loubere Nicholas Loubere at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, shares some reflections on the major achievements as well as the downsides of China’s reform period ahead of the upcoming conference “Assessing 40 Years of Reform and Opening in China” What have been the major changes in China since the reform and opening, both for society as a

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Published 2 March 2018 Ji Fangfang Associate professor Ji Fangfang from the Institute of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, is a visiting scholar at the Centre during March. Her research focuses on Internet publicness in China and media globalization. Her stay at the Centre is funded by the Birgit Rausing Language Programme.

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Published 5 March 2018 The Centre invites Swedish and Nordic Ph.D. students with an interest in East and South-East Asia to spend 1-2 months at the Centre during the fall 2018. While we are not able to offer any funding we will provide office space, access to the library, as well as possibilities to organize research seminars.Interested Ph.D. students should submita CV,a short project description

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Published 12 March 2018 John Hennessey and Professor Alexis Dudden John Hennessey who graduated from the Centre in 2011 successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Linné University, Växsjö on 9 March . The thesis studies Japanese colonial history and is entitled, Rule by Association: Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868–1912.Professor Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut, was the

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Published 3 May 2018 The latest issue of "Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights" has been published, with contributions from Nicholas Loubere and Stefan Brehm. On 12 May 2008, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Wenchuan county, Sichuan province. Felt as far as Beijing, the tremors caused horrific damage: 69,229 people died and 17,923 went missing. Yet, the aftermath o

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Published 4 June 2018 Photo by Larissa Stünkel The Centre has received two grants that will strengthen its work on Korea during the coming academic year. Beginning in September and running through to March, the grant from the Academy of Korea Studies will fund eight guest lectures on different aspects of Korean society, such as politics, digital developments, popular culture and international rela

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Published 18 June 2018 See what our researcher Dr. Paul O’Shea has to say about the recent developments Two articles on this issue have recently been published, one on the Lund Univeristy website, you can find the article here (in Swedish) and one in the Sydsvenskan newspaper here (also in Swedish). For an English translation of the text in Sydsvenskan, please see here (PDF).For more information a

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Published 20 June 2018 Seo-Young Cho will be a visiting scholar at the Centre between 26 November and 20 December 2018. Seo-Young Cho is assistant professor of economics at Philipps-University of Marburg in Germany. Her research focuses on economic analysis of human trafficking, female migration, social capital, cyber activities, gender differences in education and behaviors, and genderbased viole

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Published 25 June 2018 Astrid Norén-Nilsson On 21 May, Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson presented on “Cambodia; Towards 2018 elections and beyond” at the London School of Economics and Political Science Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF). The SEAF is an annual event organised by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC), a cross-disciplinary, regionally-focused academic centre within the Institute of Global

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Published 27 June 2018 On 14-15 June, Marina Svensson attended a meeting of the European Alliance for Asian Studies in Turin. The focus was on collaboration and promoting Asian studies in Europe. At the next International Convention of Asia Scholars in Leiden on 15-19 July 2019 the Alliance will run some joint panels on the future of Asian studies as well as co-organise other events.The Alliance h

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Published 24 September 2018 On 17th of September Dr. Paul O'Shea participated in the 79th Stockholm Seminar 'Japan-Russia Relations: The Islands Dispute and Geopolitical Culture'. Four islands – which are controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan – are the subject of a disagreement stretching back more than two generations. As a result, Japan and Russia have yet to sign a peace treaty to end World

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Published 15 October 2018 Nicholas Loubere has co-authored an article on Chinese migration and gold mining in the journal International Migration. This article examines irregular Southİ\South migration from China to Ghana, and the role it played in transforming livelihoods and broader developmental landscapes. It looks at the entry of approximately 50,000 Chinese migrants into the informal smallİ\

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Published 30 October 2018 Sweden is lagging behind other European countries and it is necessary to also educate the next generation of China experts in Sweden On October 18th, Marina Svensson, the director of the Centre, presented a background paper entitled Challenges for China Research and State of the Field in Europe: Lessons for Sweden at a seminar in Stockholm. It was written for a study on r

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Published 1 November 2018 Article in Arctic Yearbook 2018 – Chinese Mining in Greenland: Arctic Access or Access to Minerals? Alumnus Patrik Andersson, who studied at the center from 2014 to 2016, has published an article in the 2018 edition of the Arctic Yearbook together with co-authors Jesper Zeuthen and Per Kalvig. The article, titled “Chinese Mining in Greenland: Arctic Access or Access to Mi

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Publicerad 26 januari 2021 Under vintern har Helsingborg haft omfattande smittspridning och hög belastning på vården. Tack vare våra dagliga resultat som vi gör öppet tillgängliga har Helsingborg stad kunnat följa utvecklingen i kommunen bättre. Förändringar i andelen deltagare med symtom har kunnat användas som en tidig indikator för förändringar i smittspridning. Vi har under de senaste veckorna

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Publicerad 30 april 2020 Se och hör Paul Franks, professor och ansvarig för studien, berätta om lanseringen av COVID Symptom Tracker i Sverige.

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Publicerad 30 april 2020 Om lanseringen av appen COVID Symptom Tracker i Sverige.

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Publicerad 5 mars 2021 Sedan vecka 26, 2020, har COVID Symptom Study varje vecka sammanställt en veckorapport där vi markerar vilka områden som har högst och lägst uppskattad förekomst av symtomatisk covid-19 och i vilka områden förekomsten verkar öka snabbast. Dessa veckorapporter publiceras på vår hemsida och skickas bland annat till Sveriges smittskyddsenheter och Folkhälsomyndigheten. Vi bevak

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