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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 citizenship policies. The article tra

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-specter-potential-foreigners-revisiting-postcolonial-citizenship-regimes-myanmar-and - 2025-12-13

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 having the third-largest defe

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/qa-interview-national-bureau-asian-research-nbr-asia-japanese-foreign-policy - 2025-12-13

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 higher education an opportu

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/asia-focus-issue-no-10-out-now - 2025-12-13

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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/congratulations-astrid-and-paul - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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 - 2025-12-13

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, lagging behind the rapid pace of global geopolit

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-japan-eu-security-relations - 2025-12-13

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 direct influence over the canal: It is administered by the Panam

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-was-interviewed-about-chinas-involvement-panama-canal - 2025-12-13

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 questions whether this is the "great step forward" for Panama’s ti

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-has-published-article-conversation-about-panamas-decision-leave-belt-and-road - 2025-12-13

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 making of our contemporary globa

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/global-china-summer-school-2025-china-circuits-global-extractivism - 2025-12-13

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 indexicality of documentary image and audio in the digital era. It analyzes the awarded Chinese documentary The Memo (2022) respon

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-research-digitalizing-xianchang-documentary-experiments-shanghai-covid-lockdown - 2025-12-13

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 Expresso (Portugal) about President Trump's claims that China contr

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-has-been-interviewed-dagens-nyheter-and-expresso-about-chinas-role-panama-canal - 2025-12-13

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. Tabita Rosendal, PhD Candidate at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, has published a new

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-research-tabita-rosendal-has-published-new-article-journal-contemporary-asia - 2025-12-13

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 Reconciliation Commission released the first of its findings on human rights violations committed in international adoption practices. South Korea has operated the

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/youngeun-koo-comments-washington-post-south-koreas-truth-commission-report-international-adoption - 2025-12-13

Focusing on the concept of the rule of law, the article looks at how China employs established legal terms like the rule of law to make itself more understandable to the international community. However, this willingness to adopt familiar terminology does not necessarily translate to strict adherence to their original definitions. Martin Lavička, visiting research fellow at the Centre for East and

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-martin-lavicka-has-published-new-article-hague-journal-rule-law - 2025-12-13

Article on the memory of 17 April 1975  At the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge take-over of Cambodia on 17 April 1975, the article looks back at this history and then traces out how the memory thereof plays out in contemporary politics.The article is available on the Diplomat website

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-astrid-noren-nilsson-has-published-new-article-diplomat-magazine - 2025-12-13