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Study Asia in Lund!

Find out more about our Master's Programme in Asian Studies and our free standing courses

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the foremost library of its kind in Sweden

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Find out more about our research

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Find out who we are and what we do

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Covid-19 and the academic year 2020/2021

Information from Lund University

News

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22 Jan 2021 | News

New publication: "Property, Citizenship and Invisible Dispossession in Myanmar's Urban Frontier"

Elizabeth Rhoads examines dispossession of religious minorities in a new article on Myanmar.

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17 Dec 2020 | News

New article in the Conversation on Japan, Sweden, and Covid exceptionalism.

Paul O'Shea has written an article in the Conversation analyzing Covid exceptionalism in the cases of Japan and Sweden.

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14 Dec 2020 | News

The United States-Japan alliance in a post-Trump world

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.

Front cover of the journal "Critical Asian Studies"

23 Nov 2020 | News

New article on how an online news platform has supported the transition to hegemonic authoritarianism in Cambodia

Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published an article on online news as a governance innovation in the journal Critical Asian Studies.

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6 Nov 2020 | News

New open-access article on the Japan-US alliance, focusing on Donald Trump and Shinzo Abe

Paul O'Shea has co-authored an article on the Japan-US alliance, focusing on the Trump-Abe era.

Calendar

Jan

26 January 2021 13:00 to 14:00 | Seminar

Asian Studies Research Seminar with Paul O'Shea

Feb

2 February 2021 10:00 to 11:30 | Lecture/talk

Documenting as Method: Living in the Shadows of Chineseness