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Dr Jens Sejrup wins 2014 EastAsiaNet Award for Best Academic Article

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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 contemporary East Asian studies with a social science focus. EastAsiaNet notes in the announcement that “the jury unanimously praised the careful, thorough and creative way Japanese and Taiwanese newspapers were analysed. The paper shines a penetrating light on how the repetition of historical stereotypes was pivotal in the construction of Taiwanese modernity in the context of Japan’s own modernization. Its use of over 1500 newspaper entries stands out as an exemplary use of data, enabling the author to offer robust evidence in support of his analysis.”

EastAsiaNet is a network of leading European research schools with a well-developed social-science focus on East Asia, plus others that aspire to develop in this direction. It takes up issues that surpass the capacity of single institutions in training and in research. Ultimately, it contributes high-level expertise to a European perspective on Euro-Asia relations.