Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies

The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology

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12 Jun 2025 | News

South Korea is finally reckoning with its decades-long foreign adoption scandal

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4 Jun 2025 | News

Tabita Rosendal has received her doctorate degree

On Tuesday, 3 June, Tabita Rosendal successfully defended her dissertation "Fragmented Power: The Reception of China's Foreign Policy Strategies in Sri Lanka."

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12 May 2025 | News

NEW RESEARCH The Filmmaker as Feminist by Jinyan Zeng

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 women in Chin...

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9 May 2025
Made in China Journal, volume 9, issue 2
The latest issue of the Made in China Journal has been published with a special section on journalism in China today
5 May 2025
Martin Lavička co-edited new publication titled Embodied Entanglements: Gender, Identity, and the Corporeal in Asia
Martin Lavička, visiting research fellow at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, co-edited a new publication published by the Palacký University Press.
22 Apr 2025
The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies has released its strategy for 2025-2027
10 Apr 2025
Internship position at the Centre for fall 2025: now open for applications
7 Apr 2025
New publication: Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published a new article in The Diplomat Magazine
Article on the memory of 17 April 1975
3 Apr 2025
New publication: Martin Lavička has published a new article in the Hague Journal on the Rule of Law
Focusing on the concept of the rule of law, the article looks at how China employs established legal terms like the rule of law to make itself more understandable to the internatio...
31 Mar 2025
Youngeun Koo Comments for the Washington Post on South Korea's Truth Commission Report on International Adoption
The South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released findings on human rights violations in international adoption practices, highlighting the state's failures in chil...
27 Mar 2025
New research: Tabita Rosendal has published a new article in the Journal of Contemporary Asia
Focusing on China's engagement in Sri Lanka's Hambantota International Port, the article investigates how and why narratives related to the Shekou Model are used to “sell” the deve...
19 Feb 2025
Tabita Rosendal has been interviewed for Dagens Nyheter and Expresso about China's role in the Panama Canal
President Trump's allegations of Chinese influence in Panama will likely lead to tensions, changes in global trade, and challenges for the Panamanian government and public
14 Feb 2025
New Research: Digitalizing Xianchang: Documentary Experiments on Shanghai COVID Lockdown
This article offers a significant expansion of the concept of xianchang through an insightful analysis of a COVID-19 documentary. It contributes valuable perspectives on the impact...