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Interview with Marina Svensson, Professor of Modern China Studies here at the Centre. The Corona-crisis has started discussions on Chinese social media that have been quiet for a long time. Voices are now demanding freedom of the press, and the doctor exposing the virus to the world has been called a whistle-blower. This says Marina Svensson, Professor and Director at the Centre for East and South

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/how-china-has-handled-crises - 2025-10-13

Applications are now open for 2 postdoctoral fellowships in China’s, Japan’s, and/or Korea’s contemporary society at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University. Starting date 1 October 2020, or by agreement. DutiesThe person employed is expected to work independently but should also cooperate with other researchers at the Centre. The postdoctoral fellow should participate in

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/applications-open-2-postdoctoral-fellowships - 2025-10-13

Marina Svensson has published a chapter in the volume The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage Marina Svensson has published a chapter in the volume The Heritage Turn in China: The Reinvention, Dissemination and Consumption of Heritage (Amsterdam University Press) edited by Carol Ludwig, Linda Walton, and Yi-Wen Wang.The title of Marina's chapter is “L

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-heritage-china - 2025-10-13

Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has co-authored an article on civil society elites in Cambodia published in the journal Politics and Governance. The title of the article is "Pathways to Leadership within and beyond Cambodian Civil Society: Elite Status and Boundary-Crossing". It addresses elitisation in Cambodian civil society and how such processes relate to holding elite status in the state, electoral p

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-civil-society-elites-cambodia - 2025-10-13

Dr Nicholas Loubere has co-authored an article on small-scale gold miners in Ghana in the journal Labour, Capital and Society. The article is titled ‘Unequal Extractions: Reconceptualizing the Chinese Miner in Ghana’, and presents a critical examination of the depiction of Chinese miners in public, media, and academic discourse. Labour, Capital and Society journal (new window) Unequal Extractions:

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-chinese-gold-mining-ghana - 2025-10-13

Marina Svensson has published an article that deals with gentrification, heritage and walking in Beijing. The article entitled “Walking in the historic neighbourhoods of Beijing: walking as an embodied encounter with heritage and urban developments,” appears in the International Journal of Heritage Studies.See the full article here (new window)

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-walking-and-heritage-beijing - 2025-10-13

Paul O'Shea has co-authored an article on the Japan-US alliance, focusing on the Trump-Abe era. The title of the article is “Making the alliance even greater”: (Mis-)managing U.S.-Japan relations in the age of Trump." The other author is Sebastian Maslow. It's open-access and published in the journal Asian Security. It traces Trump's attitude to Japan back to the trade conflict and Japan-bashing o

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-open-access-article-japan-us-alliance-focusing-donald-trump-and-shinzo-abe - 2025-10-13

Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published an article on online news as a governance innovation in the journal Critical Asian Studies. The article is titled "Fresh News, innovative news: popularizing Cambodia’s authoritarian turn". It seeks to advance understanding of how the new logics of an expanding digital media system can be mobilized in the service of authoritarianism, by tracing how an online news

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-how-online-news-platform-has-supported-transition-hegemonic-authoritarianism-cambodia - 2025-10-13

Paul O'Shea has co-authored an article on the Japan-US alliance, analysing the prospects under new President Joe Biden and new Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide. Written together with Sebastian Maslow, the article considers the prospects for the Japan-US alliance over the coming four years. It finds that the Biden administration will have its hands full on the domestic front, thus delegating Asia poli

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/united-states-japan-alliance-post-trump-world - 2025-10-13

Paul O'Shea has written an article in the Conversation analyzing Covid exceptionalism in the cases of Japan and Sweden. The article examines national exceptionalism in political and media rhetoric in Japan and Sweden since the onset of the pandemic. It finds that Japanese exceptionalism was 'classic exceptionalism', insofar as the rhetoric highlighted particular elements of Japanese culture meanin

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-conversation-japan-sweden-and-covid-exceptionalism - 2025-10-13

Elizabeth Rhoads examines dispossession of religious minorities in a new article on Myanmar. Myanmar’s systematic dispossession of religious and ethnic minorities is well-documented as a tool for counterinsurgency through territorialisation. However, the specific contours of the relationship between minorities, territorialisation, and urban dispossession remain underexplored. This article argues t

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-property-citizenship-and-invisible-dispossession-myanmars-urban-frontier - 2025-10-13

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 academic freedom and how it now has been put on the agenda by both the UN and the EU

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-academic-freedom-china-and-its-global-implications - 2025-10-13

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 semiosis, she analyses the framing of internet addiction in China us

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-internet-reality-and-temporal-autonomy-china - 2025-10-13

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 the country in order to maintain access to the lucra-tive Chinese market. This essay by Nicholas Loubere examines these incidents and the res

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-censorship-academic-freedom-and-academic-publishing-inon-china - 2025-10-13

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 business leader and visionary, whereas the less well-known Geng Le

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-chinese-digital-society - 2025-10-13

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 for East and South-East

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/we-are-happy-announce-launch-peoples-map-global-china - 2025-10-13

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 political and bureaucratic elite – but just how

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/podcast-politics-online-news-cambodia - 2025-10-13

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 relevant to scholars, students, practitioners and the general public. In a public

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/cambodia-update-politics-action-2021 - 2025-10-13

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 other issues at stake: international prestige, contract law, geopolitics, and of course: mon

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-politics-olympics - 2025-10-13

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 - 2025-10-13