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Marina Svensson has published a photo essay in Visual Ethnography. The essay addresses through images and text the work and rituals surrounding the making and printing of genealogies in China. It documents how lineages and printmakers negotiate a new socio-economic environment under the process of heritagization, the materiality and labor of printmaking, and the spaces in which work and rituals ta

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/genealogy-making-and-lineages-postsocialist-china-space-labor-and-rituals-under-processes - 2026-04-29

Tabita Rosendal has written an article for The Diplomat on China’s use of Buddhist diplomacy in Sri Lanka. In this article, Tabita Rosendal analyzes how China is using Buddhist narratives to promote its soft power in Sri Lanka – and bolster its image as a harmonious regional power. The article recounts how, in recent years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has worked hard to mitigate criticism of

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/belt-and-road-buddhism-sri-lanka - 2026-04-29

Izzy (Elizabeth Rhoads) has received a Starting Grant within development research from the Swedish Research Council to lead a four-year collaborative research project on new forms of statelessness and displacement in Myanmar.

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/congratulations-izzy-who-has-received-research-grant - 2026-04-29

New Danish article by Tabita Rosendal in Kinabladet In this Danish article, Tabita Rosendal provides an overview of China's use of Buddhist diplomacy in Sri Lanka, arguing that the CCP is utilizing Buddhist strategic narratives in order to pave the way for the Belt and Road Initiative's (BRI) smooth implementation. She summarizes the BRI's progress in Sri Lanka, China's use of Buddhist diplomacy,

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/kinas-buddhistiske-diplomati-i-sri-lanka - 2026-04-29

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University has received funding from the Swedish Research Council to establish a Graduate School in Asian Studies.  The graduate school is a collaboration with the Stockholm Center for Global Asia at Stockholm University, and the Center for Asian Studies at Stockholm School of Economics. Additional partners are the Department of Languages an

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/graduate-school-asian-studies - 2026-04-29

Izzy Rhoads has a new article published in Citizenship Studies on the legal history and contemporary impacts of Myanmar’s citizenship regime. Since the late colonial period, Myanmar has experienced heated debates over notions of belonging, including belonging as inscribed through citizenship status. The article traces the historical evolution of Myanmar’s postcolonial citizenship regime and how no

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-citizenship-myanmar-published - 2026-04-29

Two workshops were organized in Phnom Penh on 8 December and in Jakarta on 13 December to discuss research findings with civil society activists The workshops concluded the Swedish Research Council-funded project "New Perspectives on Civil Society in Cambodia and Indonesia" which brought together researchers from Lund University, Universitas Gadjah Mada, and the Cambodia Development Resource Insti

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/workshops-civil-society-cambodia-and-indonesia - 2026-04-29

Benjamin Davies has co-authored a report on Sweden’s relationship with Taiwan. The report has been published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI) and Swedish National China Centre. This report (in Swedish), co-written with Viking Bohman, describes the history of Taiwan and its foreign relations, with a focus on Sweden’s relations with the contested territory. Using governmental a

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/report-swedens-relationship-taiwan-released - 2026-04-29

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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/year-review-article-cambodia-2022 - 2026-04-29

Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published a chapter on civil society leadership in the Routledge Handbook of Civil and Uncivil Society in Southeast Asia. The chapter examines how civil society leadership has been addressed in key debates on civil society in  Southeast Asia, and provides suggestions for how these debates can benefit from advancing the research agenda on civil society elites. It appears in

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-civil-society-leadership-southeast-asia - 2026-04-29

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-0 - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 13 November, Astrid Norén-Nilsson participated in a seminar about the political situation in Cambodia co-organised by Stockholm University's Forum for Asian Studies. In the seminar, Dr Norén-Nilsson spoke alongside Thomas Hammarberg, former Council of Europe High Commissioner for Human Rights. Astrid Norén-Nilsson

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/open-seminar-about-cambodia - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Centre invites Swedish and Nordic Ph.D. students with a focus on East and South-East Asia to spend 1-2 months at the Centre during the spring 2019. While we are not able to offer any funding we will provide office space, access to the library, as well as possibilities to organize a research seminar.Interested Ph.D

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/calls-visiting-phd-students-0 - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Annika Pissin and Eric Clark (Geography, project leader) will investigate the obstacles to and advantages from small-scale diversified agriculture in China and Sweden for three years starting in January 2019. This project examines the role of small-scale agroecological farming in achieving sustainable welfare and sust

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/formas-grant-swedish-research-council-environment-agricultural-sciences-and-spatial-planning - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Paul O'Shea has published a new article on the issue of US military bases in Japan in Media, War and Conflict. The article examines how a controversial US Marine base in Okinawa is justified by the state and conservative media through the idea of 'deterrence'.Read the full article here

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/strategic-narratives-and-us-military-bases-japan-how-deterrence-makes-marine-base-okinawa - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies announces a photo contest for students enrolled at Lund University Asian cities are vibrant and diverse places that reflect unique histories at the same time as they are undergoing rapid changes.  The cities are however often depicted in rather stereotypical fashion in

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visualizing-asian-cities-photo-contest - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. From 1 January 2019 the Centre is organisationally placed at the Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology.  There it becomes the third section of the Department of History which apart from the section of history also includes the section of human rights. As a result of this organisational change the Asia Library wil

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-moves-joint-faculties-humanities-and-theology - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Marina Svensson has written a new book chapter on the Chinese platform society. The book Plattformssamhället – den digitala utvecklingens politik, innovation och reglering (The platform society: the politics, innovation and regulation of digital developments) covers a range of issues related to the emerging platform s

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/chinese-platform-society-developments-and-challenges - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Mark Philip Stadler is a PhD student in the field of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen and a visiting PhD student at the Centre between 14 January to 15 April. Mark's PhD project is about urban poor activism in Jakarta - that is activism by and for the urban poor - and how the activists struggle

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-phd-student-centre - 2026-04-29

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The board's task is to promote the strategic work at the Centre and stimulate interdisciplinary collaboration across the faculties. The board consist of (in alphabetical order)Tobias Axelsson, senior lecturer at the Department of Economic History, Lund UniversityStefan Brehm, senior lecturer at the CentreAstrid Norén

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centres-new-strategic-board-has-been-appointed-board-joint-faculties-humanities-and-theology - 2026-04-29