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Researchers within the Digital China project presented papers at two conferences in Beijing on 22-24 September. The Centre together with CASS co-organised the 5th Sino-Nordic Women and Gender Conference on the topic of gender and communication as well as the 2nd Sino-Swedish ICT4D conference. The conferences gathered a total of 85 participants and dealt with issues related to gender equality, repr

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/5th-sino-nordic-women-and-gender-conference-and-2nd-sino-swedish-ict4d-conference - 2025-11-01

Abstract deadline: 1 December 2014Conference dates: 5-6 March 2015You are most welcome to the Eleventh Annual NAJS Conference. The conference will take place at the Centre for East and South-­East Asian Studies, Lund University.We invite paper proposals on a broad set of topics related to Japanese society and culture, past and present, including politics and international relations, economy and bu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-eleventh-najs-conference-study-contemporary-japanese-society - 2025-11-01

Marina Svensson has published a chapter on Gender equality and empowerment in China: Discourses and experiences in a comparative perspective. The chapter is included in a book entitled Education, Media and Sexuality Health Services for Girls and Women: 20 Years Experiences of China's Policy and Practice. The book is part of the Education and Development for Rural Women and Girls in China Series pu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/gender-equality-and-empowerment-china - 2025-11-01

Mina Roces will be a visiting researcher here at the Centre from the beginning of October to the end of November. Mina Roces received her Phd in History from the University of Michigan and is presently Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.Read more about Mina here

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-professor-mina-roces - 2025-11-01

Monica Lindberg Falk has published the monograph Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand: Socio-cultural responses. Routledge Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia. This book addresses culture as an underpinning issue in post-disaster recovery,it uses original material collected in Thailand after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami to provide in-depth ethnography of Thailand’s recovery. With a foc

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-monograph-associate-professor-monica-lindberg-falk - 2025-11-01

We congratulate Asian studies alumna Montserrat López Jerez who will defend her doctoral dissertation "Deltas Apart : Factor Endowments, Colonial Extraction and Pathways of Agricultural Development in Vietnam" at the Department of Economic History, Lund University. The public defence takes place on December 19, 10:15 in EC3: 207.AbstractThis study provides an explanation of the different pathways

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Marina Svensson has been promoted to Professor of Modern China Studies. Marina has been with the Centre since 2004 and is currently engaged in several research projects. She is project leader for a project on the Chinese digital society, as well as engaged in research on cultural heritage issues and on the role of documentary film in China.Read more about Marina here

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/marina-svensson-has-been-promoted-full-professor - 2025-11-01

Article with Ann Kull in Sydsvenskan (in Swedish) Read the full article hereAnn is is a lecturer and researcher at the Centre and for more information about Ann’s research see here

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/feminism-within-islam-difficult-not-impossible - 2025-11-01

Dr. Ming-Chee Ang (better known to the students as Ming), the centre’s post-doctoral fellow (2013-2015) and currently a research fellow, has published her doctoral dissertation-turn-monograph, Institutions and Social Mobilization: The Chinese Education Movement in Malaysia, 1951-2011, in December 2014. According to Associate Professor Goh Beng Lan (Department of Southeast Asian Studies, National U

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-monograph-dr-ming-chee-ang - 2025-11-01

A late congratulation to alumnus Tallyn Gray who received his PhD at the University of Westminsiter last summer!His dissertation “Justice and Transition in Cambodia, 1979-2014: Process, Meaning, and Narrative” has been shortlisted for the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize 2015.Read more about Tallyn’s research hereTallyn also has a paper titled ”Re-Imagining the Community

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/alumnus-tallyn-grays-dissertation-shortlisted-icas-book-prize - 2025-11-01

Ming’s new article on “Chinese Education for Malaysians” is now published by three influential Chinese education movement organisations in Malaysia: Merdeka University Berhad, LLG Cultural Development Centre,Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies. This article, presented during the 2014 Malaysia Chinese Education Conference, has critically analysed the issues and challenges faced by the six decades

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-dr-ming-chee-ang - 2025-11-01

Postdoctoral Fellow Jens Sejrup has a chapter in the newly released book Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy, edited by Andrew Morris and published by Bloomsbury Academic. Entitled "Reliving the Past: The Narrative Themes of Repetition and Continuity in Japan-Taiwan News Coverage," Jens's chapter discusses high-level Taiwanese political visits to Japan and their different narra

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/chapter-dr-jens-sejrup-new-book-japan-taiwan-postcolonial-relations - 2025-11-01

The conference took place at the Kulturen museum in Lund on 17-18 June and gathered twenty scholars and experts from China, the US, Europe, and Australia. The scholars represented different disciplines and fields, including heritage studies, art and architecture, cultural studies, anthropology, Sinology, and media and communication studies. The multifaceted and complex understandings, negotiations

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/cultural-heritage-china-contested-understandings-images-and-practices - 2025-11-01

August 2015 is turning into an unusually eventful month in Japan as the country marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of the Pacific War as well as restarts operations at a nuclear power plant, the first one to be reactivated since the sector experienced a complete shutdown after the Fukushima disaster. A regular commentator on current events in Ja

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/dr-jens-sejrup-gives-series-interviews-recent-events-japan - 2025-11-01

When sexuality meets faith - article in Inside Indonesia Diego García Rodríguez who graduated this year from the programme has an article titled "When sexuality meets faith" published online in Inside Indonesia.You can read the full article here. 

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-alumnus-diego-garcia-rodriguez - 2025-11-01

Jesper Schlæger and Marina Svensson have chapters in a new book on the Chinese Internet. Jesper Schlæger and Marina Svensson have chapters in a new book on the Chinese Internet, China's Contested Internet, edited by Guobin Yang and published by NIAS Press.For a Q&A with Yang Guobin on the new book, China's Contested Internet, see this link

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-book-chinese-internet - 2025-11-01

Growing Up in Mommy’s Blog - research article in Asiascape: Digital Asia Annika has published an article in the journal Asiascape: Digital Asia about mother-daughter blogs in mainland China, focusing on the changing generational relationship between mothers and young daughters.For further inquiries please contact Annika Pissin.You can find the article here  

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-annika-pissin - 2025-11-01

Honorary Hydén award to alumnus Jacco Visser at Lund University Development Research Day 2015 The Hydén Award is granted annually to mark the best thesis on socio-economic and political issues in low- and middle-income countries, as presented by a Bachelor or Masters level student at Lund University.This year alumnus Jacco Visser who graduated in June this year from the program received an honorar

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/honorary-hyden-award-alumnus-jacco-visser - 2025-11-01

Article (in Swedish) by Marina Svensoon in Kinarapport Marina Svensson has published an article (in Swedish), Chinese Photography: Propaganda, social documentary, and art, that discusses the development of photography in China and some recent photo exhibitions.The article was published in Kinarapport number 3, 2015, and is available here.  

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/chinese-photography-propaganda-social-documentary-and-art - 2025-11-01

In the second issue of "Asia in Focus” (published ny NIAS) articles written by former students John Hennessey and Kees Krul can be found. John Hennessey (who graduated in 2011) has written an article titled "Creating a Colonial Consciousness? Reflections on Audience Reception at the Tokyo Colonization Exposition of 1912” and Kees Krul (who graduated in June this year) has written an article titled

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/articles-alumni-john-hennessey-and-kees-krul - 2025-11-01