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Researcher Dr. Elizabeth Rhoads was recently interviewed in Nature about her work with Myanmar students and educational providers in displacement. The Pilot Capstone Project led by Lund University and housed at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies is an international consortium including University of Toronto, Northern Illinois University, University of Montana, and Palacky University

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centres-outreach-program-myanmar-students-impacted-conflict-and-displacement-highlighted-nature - 2026-07-09

On Monday, 23 March, Gina (Chih-Lan) Song Lopez successfully defended her dissertation "Foodscapes of Civil Society: Veg*n advocacy and sustainability transitions in the Sino-cultural sphere" This dissertation is about social change ‘and’, ‘with’, as well as ‘through’ food. It examines the rise and expansion of novel approaches to veganism and plant-based lifestyles in the Sino-cultural sphere by

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/gina-chih-lan-song-lopez-has-received-her-doctorate-degree - 2026-07-09

Lund University is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) within the Lund University Programme for Global Excellence. The position will be placed within one of five sustainability themes in the humanities or theology. One of the themes is Governance, Justice and Sustainable Futures (PDF, new tab), placed at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies.The application dea

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/assistant-professor-southeast-asian-studies-specialising-governance-justice-and-sustainable-futures - 2026-07-09

In a new Critical Asian Studies article, Kimhean Hok uncovers reform patterns that have significantly strengthened Cambodia’s administrative state while reinforcing authoritarian rule. In the article, Kimhean Hok argues that Cambodia should no longer be understood simply as a system with a strong ruling party and a weak state. Instead, he shows that the country has undergone what he calls a “techn

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-open-access-article-technocracy-cambodian-politics - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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. I

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-open-access-article-japan-us-alliance-focusing-donald-trump-and-shinzo-abe - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 ca

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-how-online-news-platform-has-supported-transition-hegemonic-authoritarianism-cambodia - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 adminis

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/united-states-japan-alliance-post-trump-world - 2026-07-09

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 - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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, territ

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-property-citizenship-and-invisible-dispossession-myanmars-urban-frontier - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 aca

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-academic-freedom-china-and-its-global-implications - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 realis

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-internet-reality-and-temporal-autonomy-china - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 Ch

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-censorship-academic-freedom-and-academic-publishing-inon-china - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-chinese-digital-society - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/we-are-happy-announce-launch-peoples-map-global-china - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 sou

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/podcast-politics-online-news-cambodia - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/cambodia-update-politics-action-2021 - 2026-07-09

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 - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/how-safe-are-tokyo-olympics-covid-19 - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies are hiring one or two researchers, preferably with a focus on contemporary China, 50% to 100% according to agreement, during the period 2021-08-16 to 2021-12-31.  The work consists of assisting in the preparation of a EU application with deadline 7 October, and then res

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-east-and-south-east-asian-studies-are-hiring-one-or-two-researchers - 2026-07-09

Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has guest edited a special issue for Contemporary Southeast Asia The special issue, guest edited by Neil Loughlin and Astrid Norén-Nilsson, sheds new light on the CPP's ongoing attempts to recalibrate its mode of governance and the future it envisages for Cambodia. It includes two articles by Astrid Norén-Nilsson: "Introduction to Special Issue: The Cambodian People’s Party

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/special-issue-cambodias-turn-hegemonic-authoritarianism - 2026-07-09