Published 8 October 2024 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 havi

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/qa-interview-national-bureau-asian-research-nbr-asia-japanese-foreign-policy - 2025-05-05

Published 15 October 2024 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 h

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/asia-focus-issue-no-10-out-now - 2025-05-05

Published 25 October 2024 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 - 2025-05-05

Published 4 November 2024 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/korean-translation-global-china-method - 2025-05-05

Published 13 November 2024 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 worke

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-paradoxical-development-liberal-governance-international-adoption-policy-and - 2025-05-05

Published 15 November 2024 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 unde

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-opium-people-religious-politics-xi-jinping-era - 2025-05-05

Published 4 December 2024 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 #MeTo

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/release-anthology-feminist-activism-post-2010-sinosphere - 2025-05-05

Published 25 September 2020 Dr Nicholas Loubere has co-authored an article on small-scale gold miners in Ghana in the journal Labour, Capital and Society. The article is titled ‘Unequal Extractions: Reconceptualizing the Chinese Miner in Ghana’, and presents a critical examination of the depiction of Chinese miners in public, media, and academic discourse. Labour, Capital and Society journal (new

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-chinese-gold-mining-ghana - 2025-05-05

Published 19 October 2020 Marina Svensson has published an article that deals with gentrification, heritage and walking in Beijing. The article entitled “Walking in the historic neighbourhoods of Beijing: walking as an embodied encounter with heritage and urban developments,” appears in the International Journal of Heritage Studies.See the full article here (new window)

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-walking-and-heritage-beijing - 2025-05-05

Published 6 November 2020 Shinzo Abe and Donald Trump. Photo Wikimedia Commons. 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. It

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-open-access-article-japan-us-alliance-focusing-donald-trump-and-shinzo-abe - 2025-05-05

Published 23 November 2020 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 can be mobilized in the service of authoritarianism, by

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-how-online-news-platform-has-supported-transition-hegemonic-authoritarianism-cambodia - 2025-05-05

Published 14 December 2020 PHOTO: 首相官邸ホームページ on wikimedia commons 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 administration will ha

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/united-states-japan-alliance-post-trump-world - 2025-05-05

Published 17 December 2020 nakashi from Chofu, Tokyo, JAPAN, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons 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 e

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-conversation-japan-sweden-and-covid-exceptionalism - 2025-05-05

Published 22 January 2021 Photo by Elizabeth Rhoads 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, territorialisation, and urban dispo

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-property-citizenship-and-invisible-dispossession-myanmars-urban-frontier - 2025-05-05

Published 17 February 2021 Image credit of Utrikesmagasinet. Foto: STR/AFP/TT 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 academ

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-academic-freedom-china-and-its-global-implications - 2025-05-05

Published 26 February 2021 Photo by Jon Tyson on Unsplash.com 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 realist account of semios

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-internet-reality-and-temporal-autonomy-china - 2025-05-05

Published 9 March 2021 A page ripped out from The Economist by China's censorship department. Attribution: 闫恩铭／Enming Yan. Wikimedia Commons 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

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-censorship-academic-freedom-and-academic-publishing-inon-china - 2025-05-05

Published 26 March 2021 Photo by Rodion Kutsaev on Unsplash 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 a well-known busines

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-chinese-digital-society - 2025-05-05

Published 19 April 2021 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 localities. It was created with the support of the Centre

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/we-are-happy-announce-launch-peoples-map-global-china - 2025-05-05

Published 20 May 2021 Image credit of NIAS 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 source of information for Cambodia’s poli

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/podcast-politics-online-news-cambodia - 2025-05-05