Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies

The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology

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News

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20 Sep 2022 | News

Development, Debt, and Distress: Examining challenges to China’s Belt and Road Initiative through an analysis of Sri Lanka’s debt crisis

Tabita Rosendal has published an article on China’s stake in Sri Lanka’s debt crisis, and what this tells us about the Belt and Road Initiative.

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8 Sep 2022 | News

China’s Buddhist strategic narratives in Sri Lanka—benefits and Buddhism?

Tabita Rosendal has published an article on China’s use of Buddhist strategic narratives in Sri Lanka

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26 Aug 2022 | News

Asia in Focus has found a new home at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies!

After several years of expert management at the Nordic Institute for Asian Studies, Copenhagen University, the journal has moved across the Öresund to Sweden.

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8 Aug 2022 | News

New publication on Global China

Nicholas Loubere has co-authored a short book titled Global China as Method, published by Cambridge University Press’s Elements in Global China series.

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4 Aug 2022 | News

Kinas Silkevejsinitiativ – udfordringer, uvished og udholdenhed

China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Challenges, uncertainties, and resilience