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A Korean translation of the book Global China as Method (co-authored by Nicholas Loubere and Ivan Franceschini) has been published. Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four decades of integration into the global socioeconomic system, discussions of China continue to be underpinned by a core assu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/korean-translation-global-china-method - 2025-10-01

Youngeun Koo has published an open-access article in the Journal of Social History on the history of the orphan registry and adoption law, exploring the emergence of modern governance in South Korea. This article explores the development of international adoption policy in post-liberation South Korea, emphasizing the roles of American and Korean professional social workers. By analyzing the orphan

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-paradoxical-development-liberal-governance-international-adoption-policy-and - 2025-10-01

Martin Lavička wrote a chapter in the new edited volume China under Xi Jinping: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, just published by Brill. his chapter discusses how the official religious policies stipulated in the so-called Document 19 issued by the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party in 1982 have transformed into the current religious laws and policies under Xi Jinping. The post-Mao

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-opium-people-religious-politics-xi-jinping-era - 2025-10-01

We are excited to announce the release of a new anthology 'Feminist Activism in the Post-2010 Sinosphere: Identifying Issues, Sharing Knowledge, Building Movements' (Bloomsbury Academic), edited by Elisabeth L. Engebretsen and Jinyan Zeng. Feminist Activism in the Post-2010s Sinosphere examines a variety of urgent feminist issues in 21st-century China, including the #MeToo movement, online misogyn

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/release-anthology-feminist-activism-post-2010-sinosphere - 2025-10-01

New article by Chontida Auikool in the Conversation. This article is a collaboration with The Conversation Indonesia as part of a special edition commemorating 20 years of efforts to rebuild Aceh. Titled Memories of Aceh Chinese: We Too Remember, We Too Belong, it reveals the collective memory of the Aceh Chinese community, reflecting on their ongoing efforts to navigate their presence and identit

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/memories-aceh-chinese-we-too-remember-we-too-belong - 2025-10-01

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies together with the Graduate School in Asian Studies have recently produced three episodes of the Nordic Asia Podcast. The episodes deal with academic freedom issues in Thailand, China and the Indo-Pacific, as well as a Tibetan filmmaker. The episodes were hosted and produced by several of the Centre's PhD students and our intern. Two of them were pro

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/nordic-asia-podcasts - 2025-10-01

On 13 November, Astrid Norén-Nilsson participated in a seminar about the political situation in Cambodia co-organised by Stockholm University's Forum for Asian Studies. In the seminar, Dr Norén-Nilsson spoke alongside Thomas Hammarberg, former Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights. Astrid Norén-Nilsson discussed recent political developments in Cambodia, whilst Thomas Hammarberg spo

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/open-seminar-about-cambodia - 2025-10-01

The Centre invites Swedish and Nordic Ph.D. students with a focus on East and South-East Asia to spend 1-2 months at the Centre during the spring 2019. While we are not able to offer any funding we will provide office space, access to the library, as well as possibilities to organize a research seminar.Interested Ph.D. students should submita CV,a short Ph.D. project description (two pages)and a s

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/calls-visiting-phd-students-0 - 2025-10-01

Annika Pissin and Eric Clark (Geography, project leader) will investigate the obstacles to and advantages from small-scale diversified agriculture in China and Sweden for three years starting in January 2019. This project examines the role of small-scale agroecological farming in achieving sustainable welfare and sustainable agriculture. The purpose is to analyze barriers to and facilitators of th

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/formas-grant-swedish-research-council-environment-agricultural-sciences-and-spatial-planning - 2025-10-01

Paul O'Shea has published a new article on the issue of US military bases in Japan in Media, War and Conflict. The article examines how a controversial US Marine base in Okinawa is justified by the state and conservative media through the idea of 'deterrence'.Read the full article here

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/strategic-narratives-and-us-military-bases-japan-how-deterrence-makes-marine-base-okinawa - 2025-10-01

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies announces a photo contest for students enrolled at Lund University Asian cities are vibrant and diverse places that reflect unique histories at the same time as they are undergoing rapid changes.  The cities are however often depicted in rather stereotypical fashion in media so the challenge is to explore and visualize cities through images that sho

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visualizing-asian-cities-photo-contest - 2025-10-01

From 1 January 2019 the Centre is organisationally placed at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology.  There it becomes the third section of the Department of History which apart from the section of history also includes the section of human rights. As a result of this organisational change the Asia Library will become the third library at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology. The

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-moves-joint-faculties-humanities-and-theology - 2025-10-01

Marina Svensson has written a new book chapter on the Chinese platform society. The book Plattformssamhället – den digitala utvecklingens politik, innovation och reglering (The platform society: the politics, innovation and regulation of digital developments) covers a range of issues related to the emerging platform society in Sweden, Europe, and globally. It contains contributions by 14 experts,

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/chinese-platform-society-developments-and-challenges - 2025-10-01

Mark Philip Stadler is a PhD student in the field of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen and a visiting PhD student at the Centre between 14 January to 15 April. Mark's PhD project is about urban poor activism in Jakarta - that is activism by and for the urban poor - and how the activists struggle for changing the rampant urban poverty problematic in a transformative way. The r

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-phd-student-centre - 2025-10-01

The board's task is to promote the strategic work at the Centre and stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration across the faculties. The board consist of (in alphabetical order)Tobias Axelsson, senior lecturer at the Department of Economic History, Lund UniversityStefan Brehm, senior lecturer at the CentreAstrid Norén Nilsson, associate senior lecturer at the CentrePaul O’Shea, associate senior lec

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centres-new-strategic-board-has-been-appointed-board-joint-faculties-humanities-and-theology - 2025-10-01

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies is co-organising the 12th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference and PhD Course 2-6 December 2019 to be held in Lund. Deadline for submitting abstracts is 7 June.Read more about the conference and course here (pdf) and on the conference website www.digitalasia2019.com

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/digital-asia-conference-call-papers - 2025-10-01

Applications are now open for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship in Japan’s and/or Korea’s contemporary society at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. Starting date 15 August 2019 or as per agreement.The person employed is expected to work independently but should also cooperate with other researchers within the subject. The postdoctoral fellow should participate in

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/applications-open-postdoctoral-fellowship - 2025-10-01

Debate article published in Dagens Nyheter An article arguing for the need for more focus on Asian studies in Sweden was just been published in Dagens Nyheter and Marina Svensson, Director here at the Centre, is one of the authors. The article is only available in Swedish.Read the full article here  

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/poor-knowledge-asian-societies-sweden - 2025-10-01

Paul O'Shea has published a chapter in a new book entitled Japan's Future and a New Meiji Transformation. The title of the chapter is "Learning from Okinawa’s geopolitical history: how easing the burden of the bases makes good geopolitical sense".The chapter examines the contemporary geopolitical challenges facing Okinawa by considering the geopolitical history of the islands. It pays particular a

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-okinawa-and-east-asian-geopolitics - 2025-10-01

We are happy to announce that 'Dog Days', the 2018 edition of the Made in China Yearbook, is finally out! This book traces the latest developments in Chinese society through a collection of 50 original essays on labour, civil society, and human rights in China and beyond, penned by leading scholars and practitioners from around the world. You can download it FOR FREE here

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/made-china-yearbook-2018-now-published - 2025-10-01