Published 9 May 2025 The latest issue of the Made in China Journal has been published with a special section on journalism in China today Is journalism in China dead? As state control grows and old outlets vanish, new forms are emerging—from citizen exposés to cross-border investigations. This issue explores journalism's reinvention in the People’s Republic of China from a variety of perspectives.

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Published 12 May 2025 Poster of Outcry and Whisper’s premiere, a documentary on women’s struggle for individual and collective autonomy. Director Wen Hai and Jinyan Zeng. Animation director: Trish McAdam. Courtesy of the artists. On the position of filmmaker as feminist, this article investigates the documentarian’s strategies of dealing with the cruelty in activism and the cruelty suffered by wom

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Published 4 June 2025 On Tuesday, 3 June, Tabita Rosendal successfully defended her dissertation "Fragmented Power: The Reception of China's Foreign Policy Strategies in Sri Lanka." This dissertation presents a theory on China’s “Fragmented Power” in foreign politics by examining the reception of the “Belt and Road” Initiative in Sri Lanka. This initiative, which exemplifies Xi Jinping’s assertive

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Published 12 June 2025 Illustration based on a news article about Kim Tak-un published in the Tong-a Ilbo on 6 October 1975: Artwork by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, Korean-Swedish adoptee and artist (@chung.woolrim), Author provided (no reuse). Youngeun Koo writes for The Conversation on Korean-Swedish international adoption history. South Korea’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Swedish Adoption

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Published 1 July 2014 Marina has an article entitled “Heritage's place: heritage narratives in Chinese city promotional films," in the the book Branding Chinese Mega-Cities: Policies, Practices and Positioning ed. by Per Olof Berg and Emma Björner, Elgar, 2014.For further information please see here 

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Published 16 July 2014 Marina Svensson's article ‘Voice, power and connectivity in China’s microblogosphere: Digital divides on SinaWeibo’ has just been published in a special issue on the Chinese internet in the journal China Information , July 2014, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 168-188.

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Published 14 August 2014 EastAsiaNet has recently announced that the 2014 Award for Best Academic Article goes to Dr. Jens Sejrup of Lund University for his paper, "Instrumentalized History and the Motif of Repetition in News Coverage of Japan-Taiwan Relations," published in Pacific Affairs, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 745–765. The EastAsiaNet Award recognizes and encourages exemplary scholarship in conte

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Published 27 January 2014 The conference welcomes papers that take gender as a critical tool of analysis in studies of media, culture, communication and ICTs. The focus of the conference is studies on China and the Nordic countries, but studies on other regions as well as more general or theoretical papers are also welcome. Scholars from different disciplines and research fields, among others gend

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Published 11 March 2014 Four new working papers in the Centre's Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies series are now available as PDF files.To the working papers

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Published 17 February 2014 Sustainable City Development: Theories, methods, challenges, and experiences in China and the Nordic countries in Shanghai 28-31 October. Call for papers to research workshop and ph.d course with deadline 1 April, 2014.These activities are organised by the Sino-Nordic Urban Governance for Sustainable Cities Network of which the Centre is a member.For further information

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Published 25 March 2014 Lund University hereby declares the following vacancy at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies open for application. The application deadline is May 15, 2014. Please spread this information in your networks.More information

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Published 4 April 2014 Postdoctoral research fellow Jens Sejrup has published the article "Awakening the Sufferers: Reflections on Public Relations, Activism, and Subalternity in Postcolonial Controversies between Taiwan and Japan" in SAGE journal Public Relations Inquiry, vol. 3, no. 1 (2014).

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Published 23 April 2014 Marina has an article entitled “Heritage's place: heritage narratives in Chinese city promotional films," in the the book Branding Chinese Mega-Cities: Policies, Practices and Positioning ed. by Per Olof Berg and Emma Björner, Elgar, 2014.For further information see here (new window)

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Published 10 June 2014 The centre is currently looking for a full time administrator (limited tenure to 2015-07-31). QualificationsDocumented excellent ability in Swedish and English, a B.A. or comparable qualification in economics, experience of the administrative systems in use at Lund University (e.g. purchasing routines, DFS, Primula, e-recruitment, etc) as well as excellent competence in usin

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Published 12 September 2014 Malte P. Benjamins who graduated in 2013 from the programme has an article titled  "International actors in NIMBY controversies: Obstacle or opportunity for environmental campaigns?" published online in the China Information journal. The article will also available be in China Information's November issue.To the article

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Published 22 September 2014 Deadline: 15 October 2014 Conference dates: 11-14 August 2015 The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will hold its 8th conference from 11 to 14 August 2015 at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria. As an international and multi-disciplinary organisation, EuroSEAS invites scholars and PhD students from a

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Published 25 September 2014 Researchers within the Digital China project presented papers at two conferences in Beijing on 22-24 September. The Centre together with CASS co-organised the 5th Sino-Nordic Women and Gender Conference on the topic of gender and communication as well as the 2nd Sino-Swedish ICT4D conference. The conferences gathered a total of 85 participants and dealt with issues rela

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Published 26 September 2014 Abstract deadline: 1 December 2014Conference dates: 5-6 March 2015You are most welcome to the Eleventh Annual NAJS Conference. The conference will take place at the Centre for East and South-­East Asian Studies, Lund University.We invite paper proposals on a broad set of topics related to Japanese society and culture, past and present, including politics and internation

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Published 9 October 2014 Marina Svensson has published a chapter on Gender equality and empowerment in China: Discourses and experiences in a comparative perspective. The chapter is included in a book entitled Education, Media and Sexuality Health Services for Girls and Women: 20 Years Experiences of China's Policy and Practice. The book is part of the Education and Development for Rural Women and

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Published 24 October 2014 Mina Roces Mina Roces will be a visiting researcher here at the Centre from the beginning of October to the end of November. Mina Roces received her Phd in History from the University of Michigan and is presently Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.Read more about Mina here

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