Published 22 April 2024 Photo by Martin Lavička Earlier this year, authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region passed a revised version of the Xinjiang Regulations on Religious Affairs. The new rules emphasize the Sinicization of religion, ensuring that sites of religious worship, like mosques, reflect “Chinese characteristics and style.” Moreover, they are calling for the cultivation of

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/viewpoint-new-round-restrictions-further-constrains-religious-practice-xinjiang - 2025-07-05

Published 12 June 2024 Posters of Kangdrun’s three short films Red Bucket and Key, Sophia and Chödrön’s TV Show, and Short Summer in Lhasa. Courtesy of the filmmaker. New research article by Jinyan Zeng. This study investigates the first films made by a female director, Kangdrun (T: Gangs sgron, གངས་སྒྲོན་, Gangzhen, 岗珍, b. 1995) belonging to the Post-2000s Inland Tibet Class (ITC) generation. Fol

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visualising-post-2000s-inland-tibet-class-generation-female-authorship-and-renegotiation-ethnicity - 2025-07-05

Published 25 June 2024 Marine Corps Air Station Futenma. Photo by Sonata from Wikimedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license. Paul O’Shea has published a peer-reviewed article in Social Science Japan Journal, analysing the role of US bases in Japan. Do they contribute to deterrence? The relocation of the controversial Marine base at Futenma on Okinawa to

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/do-us-bases-japan-deter-its-neighbours-role-us-marines-okinawa-extended-deterrence - 2025-07-05

Published 28 June 2024 Astrid Norén-Nilsson has co-edited a Palgrave Handbook on contemporary political norm dynamics in Southeast Asia. This open access handbook aims to constitute a reference point on political norm dynamics in Southeast Asia, by bringing together the array of normative repertoires that frame the possibilities for citizens to participate in, set agendas for, make decisions in, a

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/palgrave-handbook-political-norms-southeast-asia - 2025-07-05

Published 27 August 2024 Our PhD candidate Gina Song Lopez is one of the editors of this new anthology. As a member of the Lund University Critical Animal Studies Network (LUCASN) our PhD candidate Gina Song Lopez is one of the editors of the series as well as a contributor.The 15-chapter collection serves as a reflective, retrospective, and celebratory collaboration among teachers, former student

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-reimagining-species-relations-decade-studying-and-teaching-critical-animal-studies - 2025-07-05

Published 28 August 2024 Aerial view over Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Photo by Kelly on Pexels.com Launch of new European seminar series This new seminar series is a collaboration between the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (Inalco), Paris; Sciences Po, Paris; and the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund. It is co-coordinated by Senior Lecturer Astrid Norén-Nilsso

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/current-dynamics-southeast-asia-new-perspectives-political-economy-and-comparative-politics - 2025-07-05

Published 4 September 2024 New research on Burma and India by Elizabeth Rhoads co-authored with Ritanjan Das at Leiden University, takes a comparative historical approach, tracing citizenship policies in both countries since Burma’s partition from British India in 1937. The article argues that the specter of “potential foreigners” continues to play a role in how both countries determine citizenshi

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-specter-potential-foreigners-revisiting-postcolonial-citizenship-regimes-myanmar-and - 2025-07-05

Published 8 October 2024 Paul O’Shea was interviewed by NBR Asia on the state of Japan’s foreign and security policy since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine has pushed Japan to implement new defense and national security policies. This includes increasing defense spending to 2% of the nation’s GDP by 2027—a historic 60% increase that will result in Japan havi

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/qa-interview-national-bureau-asian-research-nbr-asia-japanese-foreign-policy - 2025-07-05

Published 15 October 2024 The second issue since the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies overtook publication, features another round of thought-provoking articles written by early career scholars. Asia in Focus is an Open Access peer-reviewed journal published yearly online. It aims to support and give early career scholars affiliated or recently affiliated with a Nordic institution of h

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/asia-focus-issue-no-10-out-now - 2025-07-05

Published 25 October 2024 Who have both received RJ (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) Sabbatical grants. Astrid has received funding for the project Cambodia's turn to hegemonic authoritarianismPaul has received funding for the project  An Unlikely Friendship: The Strategic and Normative Foundations of the US-Japan Alliance

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Published 4 November 2024 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/korean-translation-global-china-method - 2025-07-05

Published 13 November 2024 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 worke

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-paradoxical-development-liberal-governance-international-adoption-policy-and - 2025-07-05

Published 15 November 2024 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 unde

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-opium-people-religious-politics-xi-jinping-era - 2025-07-05

Published 4 December 2024 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 #MeTo

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/release-anthology-feminist-activism-post-2010-sinosphere - 2025-07-05

Published 11 December 2024 Photo by Chontida Auikool 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 o

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/memories-aceh-chinese-we-too-remember-we-too-belong - 2025-07-05

Published 9 January 2025 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 int

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/nordic-asia-podcasts - 2025-07-05

Published 11 November 2024 “Cretaceous Diatom Database: A tool for investigating early diatom evolution"Authors: Karolina Bryłka, Matt P. Ashworth, Andrew J. Alverson, Daniel J. ConleyJournal: Journal of PhycologyDOI: 10.1111/jpy.13499https://doi.org/10.1111/jpy.13499In this article we present first comprehensive database of the Cretaceous Diatoms. We combined two views: palaeontology and phylogen

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/karolina-brylka-and-co-authors-cover-latest-volume-journal-phycology - 2025-07-05

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Published 15 May 2025 The world's oldest complete wooden hunting weapons are 200,000 years old, not 300,000 as previously believed. This is shown by a new dating study that Zoran Perić from the Department of Geology participated in, which has now been published in Science Advances and highlighted in international media. The discovery indicates that the spears originate from Neanderthals, deepening

https://www.geology.lu.se/article/worlds-oldest-complete-wooden-hunting-weapons-are-younger-previously-thought-co-author-zoran-peric - 2025-07-05

Published 25 September 2020 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-chinese-gold-mining-ghana - 2025-07-05