Published 20 September 2022 Tabita Rosendal has published an article on China’s stake in Sri Lanka’s debt crisis, and what this tells us about the Belt and Road Initiative. In this article, Tabita Rosendal analyzes what the Sri Lanka’s debt crisis can tell us about China’s “Belt and Road” Initiative (BRI). During Sri Lanka’s ongoing economic crisis, China initially seemed to take a step back, leav

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/development-debt-and-distress-examining-challenges-chinas-belt-and-road-initiative-through-analysis - 2025-07-21

Published 11 October 2022 An ancestor portrait as well as sets of boxes with the genealogies were put on palanquins and paraded through the original village while smoke from the firecrackers filled the air. Photo by Marina Svensson. Marina Svensson has published a photo essay in Visual Ethnography. The essay addresses through images and text the work and rituals surrounding the making and printing

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/genealogy-making-and-lineages-postsocialist-china-space-labor-and-rituals-under-processes - 2025-07-21

Published 4 November 2022 Tabita Rosendal has written an article for The Diplomat on China’s use of Buddhist diplomacy in Sri Lanka. In this article, Tabita Rosendal analyzes how China is using Buddhist narratives to promote its soft power in Sri Lanka – and bolster its image as a harmonious regional power. The article recounts how, in recent years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has worked har

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/belt-and-road-buddhism-sri-lanka - 2025-07-21

Published 9 December 2022 Izzy (Elizabeth Rhoads) has received a Starting Grant within development research from the Swedish Research Council to lead a four-year collaborative research project on new forms of statelessness and displacement in Myanmar.

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/congratulations-izzy-who-has-received-research-grant - 2025-07-21

Published 14 December 2022 Lotus Tower in Colombo. Photo by Kanishka Ranasinghe on Pexels.com New Danish article by Tabita Rosendal in Kinabladet In this Danish article, Tabita Rosendal provides an overview of China's use of Buddhist diplomacy in Sri Lanka, arguing that the CCP is utilizing Buddhist strategic narratives in order to pave the way for the Belt and Road Initiative's (BRI) smooth imple

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/kinas-buddhistiske-diplomati-i-sri-lanka - 2025-07-21

Published 15 December 2022 The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University has received funding from the Swedish Research Council to establish a Graduate School in Asian Studies.  The graduate school is a collaboration with the Stockholm Center for Global Asia at Stockholm University, and the Center for Asian Studies at Stockholm School of Economics. Additional partners are the

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/graduate-school-asian-studies - 2025-07-21

Published 9 January 2023 Sule Pagoda Road, Yangon, Myanmar (Burma). Photo by Justin Min, Unsplash.com Izzy Rhoads has a new article published in Citizenship Studies on the legal history and contemporary impacts of Myanmar’s citizenship regime. Since the late colonial period, Myanmar has experienced heated debates over notions of belonging, including belonging as inscribed through citizenship statu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-citizenship-myanmar-published - 2025-07-21

Published 16 January 2023 Workshop in Jakarta 13 December Two workshops were organized in Phnom Penh on 8 December and in Jakarta on 13 December to discuss research findings with civil society activists The workshops concluded the Swedish Research Council-funded project "New Perspectives on Civil Society in Cambodia and Indonesia" which brought together researchers from Lund University, Universita

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/workshops-civil-society-cambodia-and-indonesia - 2025-07-21

Published 19 January 2023 Photo by Nhat Nguyen Hoang on Unsplash Benjamin Davies has co-authored a report on Sweden’s relationship with Taiwan. The report has been published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and Swedish National China Centre. This report (in Swedish), co-written with Viking Bohman, describes the history of Taiwan and its foreign relations, with a focus on Swed

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/report-swedens-relationship-taiwan-released - 2025-07-21

Published 30 January 2023 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has assessed Cambodia's political and social trends of the past year for East Asia Forum. The article is part of the annual EAF Year in Review series, in which country experts assess the trends of the past year that are likely to affect the year in prospect. The full article on the East Asia Forum website

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/year-review-article-cambodia-2022 - 2025-07-21

Published 20 February 2023 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published a chapter on civil society leadership in the Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia. The chapter examines how civil society leadership has been addressed in key debates on civil society in  Southeast Asia, and provides suggestions for how these debates can benefit from advancing the research agenda on civil so

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-civil-society-leadership-southeast-asia - 2025-07-21

Published 3 April 2023 The Centre for East and Southeast Asian studies conducts research and teaching on Asia, and is looking for an intern. The successful candidate will contribute to both research and administration at the Centre and for the in-house journal, Asia in Focus. As part of their internship, the candidate will write an article, with feedback from researchers at the Centre, for submiss

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/internship-position-centre-open-applications-0 - 2025-07-21

Published 13 January 2025 Ai generated image Paul O'Shea published a peer-reviewed article with East Asia Forum on the developments in EU-Japan political and security relations.  In November 2024, the European Union and Japan expanded on their 2018 agreements with a new security and defence partnership. While it promises greater cooperation, the agreement remains largely exploratory and vague, lag

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-japan-eu-security-relations - 2025-07-21

Published 23 January 2025 Photo by Zalfa Imani on Unsplash President Trump says China is operating the Panama Canal. But is that the case?  Tabita Rosendal, PhD Candidate at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, was interviewed by France 24 on January 22, 2025, about President Trump's claims that China controls the Panama Canal. In the interview, Tabita explains that China has no direc

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-was-interviewed-about-chinas-involvement-panama-canal - 2025-07-21

Published 10 February 2025 Photo by Rikin Katyal on Unsplash.com Panama's "BRI-xit" due to US pressure has implications for China, but it could also lead to further geopolitical tensions Tabita Rosendal, PhD Candidate at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, has published an article in The Conversation about Panama's decision to leave the Belt and Road Initiative. In the article, she q

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-has-published-article-conversation-about-panamas-decision-leave-belt-and-road - 2025-07-21

Published 11 February 2025 16-19 June, 2025 Chinese globalisation both past and present has been deeply entangled in processes of global extractivism that have underpinned industrialisation and capitalist development around the world. From the 19th century gold rushes in settler colonial contexts to the contemporary global scramble for lithium, Chinese labour and capital have been key to the makin

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/global-china-summer-school-2025-china-circuits-global-extractivism - 2025-07-21

Published 14 February 2025 Five split screens are created to show different perspectives on the protest. Courtesy of the artists. This article offers a significant expansion of the concept of xianchang through an insightful analysis of a COVID-19 documentary. It contributes valuable perspectives on the impact of AI-generated technology in documentary filmmaking. This article explores the expanded

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-research-digitalizing-xianchang-documentary-experiments-shanghai-covid-lockdown - 2025-07-21

Published 19 February 2025 Photo by Victor Puente on Pexels.com President Trump's allegations of Chinese influence in Panama will likely lead to tensions, changes in global trade, and challenges for the Panamanian government and public  Tabita Rosendal, PhD Candidate at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, has been interviewed for the leading newspapers Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) and Exp

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-has-been-interviewed-dagens-nyheter-and-expresso-about-chinas-role-panama-canal - 2025-07-21

Published 27 March 2025 Hambantota International Port as photographed in October 2023 by the author. Focusing on China's engagement in Sri Lanka's Hambantota International Port, the article investigates how and why narratives related to the Shekou Model are used to “sell” the development of international Belt and Road Initiative port projects and who the primary beneficiary of this strategy is. Ta

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-research-tabita-rosendal-has-published-new-article-journal-contemporary-asia - 2025-07-21

Published 31 March 2025 The South Korean Truth Commission holds a press conference at its office in Seoul. Source: South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released findings on human rights violations in international adoption practices, highlighting the state's failures in child welfare. On 26 March 2025, the South Korean Truth and

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/youngeun-koo-comments-washington-post-south-koreas-truth-commission-report-international-adoption - 2025-07-21