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China’s Belt and Road Initiative recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. How has the initiative fared in the Global South? Tabita Rosendal, PhD student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, was interviewed by leading Danish newspaper Politiken during her recent fieldwork in Sri Lanka. In the interview, she evaluates the current state of Sino-Sri Lankan relations under the Belt and

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/interview-tabita-rosendal-evaluates-chinas-efforts-sri-lanka-under-belt-and-road-initiative-danish - 2025-12-15

The Centre is welcoming two new staff in 2024. Dr Macario Lacbawan who got his PhD in anthropology at Uppsala University will start a three-year postdoctoral position funded by the Swedish Research Council on 1 February. His research project addresses how the development of smart cities impacts the Aeta indigenous community in the Philippines. Dr Youngeun Koo who got her PhD in Korean Studies at t

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/welcoming-new-staff-centre - 2025-12-15

The Centre announces 1-2 fully funded PhD positions. East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on contemporary phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. The subject integrates theoretical and methodological perspectives from area studies with different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Application dead

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/1-2-fully-funded-phd-positions-east-and-south-east-asian-studies - 2025-12-15

Paul O'Shea has written a policy brief on the deterrent role of US military bases in Japan The US-Japan alliance established over seventy years ago is typically described by leaders on both sides as the ‘cornerstone of peace and security in East Asia.’ While China and North Korea may not share this positive view of the impact of the alliance on the region, the fact is that few alliances in modern

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/policy-brief-european-union-institute-paul-oshea - 2025-12-15

Astrid Norén-Nilsson has assessed Cambodia's political 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 is available on the East Asia Forum website 

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/year-review-article-cambodia-2023 - 2025-12-15

Jinyan Zeng’ research article 'Queering community: The affect of visuality in the Sinosphere' is released in Journal of Chinese Cinemas, on 6 Feb 2024. How do Chinese queer artists respond to the hegemony of Han-centric, patriarchal, and heterosexual norms, and how do they imagine home through a queer and activist lens? This study explores the visual representation of the queer community by vetera

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/queering-community-affect-visuality-sinosphere - 2025-12-15

Paul O'Shea and Sebastian Maslow have published a new peer-reviewed article in Policy Studies, analysing Japan's dramatic policy shifts in the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Change in Japanese foreign and security policy has long been characterized as “incremental”. However, Japan’s response to Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine provides an opportunity to reconsider this paradigm. In th

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/how-russias-invasion-ukraine-has-changed-japans-security-policy - 2025-12-15

Want to stay up-to-date on Asian affairs and research in the Nordics and beyond? Tune in to the Nordic Asia Podcast! The Nordic Asia Podcast is a collaboration between the following academic partners: Asia Centre, University of Tartu (Estonia), Asian Studies, University of Helsinki (Finland), Centre for Asian Studies, Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania), Centre for East Asian Studies, Universit

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-east-and-south-east-asian-studies-and-graduate-school-asian-studies-joins-nordic-asia-podcast - 2025-12-15

Nicholas Loubere has co-authored an article on the importance of open access book publishing titled ‘Against Book Enclosures: Moving Towards more Diverse, Humane and Accessible Book Publishing’ Matthew Gandy's Commentary in Area (2023) criticised the decision of the national funder UKRI to mandate that all books resulting from the research that it funds must be published open access (OA) from 2024

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-open-access-book-publishing-co-authored-nicholas-loubere - 2025-12-15

Paul O'Shea and Sebastian Maslow (University of Tokyo) have published an article in the Conversation on the end of Japanese pacifism. The article examines Japan's new role in an increasingly precarious region. The invasion of Ukraine and China's designs on Taiwan have prompted Japan to abandon its low-profile, economy-first approach, seeking instead to shape regional and even global geopolitics. W

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/end-japanese-pacifism-article-conversation-co-authored-paul-oshea - 2025-12-15

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 submission to Asia in Focus (o

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/internship-position-centre-open-applications-1 - 2025-12-15

Jinyan Zeng and Xibai Xu has co-authored a book chapter in Routledge Handbook of Chinese Gender & Sexuality. How do Chinese activists and intellectuals continue to make a social impact under heightened repression? In particular, how do female activists and intellectuals cope with political repression in addition to the structural gender bias already present in Chinese society? This chapter examine

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-womens-space-gendering-public-sphere-ai-xiaomings-practice-everyday-life-and - 2025-12-15

We are thrilled to share the exciting news of Gina's submission to the 2023-24 International Journal of Taiwan Studies (IJTS) Research Article Competition being awarded the winner of the Social Sciences category. The article titled “Going weigen: Animals, climate, and the new vegan movement in Taiwan” will be published in the IJTS after appropriate revision. You can read more about the IJTS Resear

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/congratulations-our-phd-candidate-gina-song-lopez - 2025-12-15

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 “patriotic” religious leaders. Despite enshrinin

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/viewpoint-new-round-restrictions-further-constrains-religious-practice-xinjiang - 2025-12-15

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. Following the experience of the Sinophone-Tibetan filmmaker Kangdrun in a Chinese language education environment, her films, and Tibetan cultural communities, this study

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visualising-post-2000s-inland-tibet-class-generation-female-authorship-and-renegotiation-ethnicity - 2025-12-15

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 Henoko in the north of the same island has been framed by Japanese politicians, officials, and analysts as crucial to deterrence. Critics respond that deterrence is mere

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/do-us-bases-japan-deter-its-neighbours-role-us-marines-okinawa-extended-deterrence - 2025-12-15

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, and contest, not only el

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/palgrave-handbook-political-norms-southeast-asia - 2025-12-15

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 students, and friends of LUCASN,

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-reimagining-species-relations-decade-studying-and-teaching-critical-animal-studies - 2025-12-15

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-Nilsson.The seminar series will comprise five sessions per year. Four of these will be held in Pari

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/current-dynamics-southeast-asia-new-perspectives-political-economy-and-comparative-politics - 2025-12-15

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 - 2025-12-15