News

9 Jan 2023

New article on citizenship in Myanmar published

Izzy Rhoads has a new article published in Citizenship Studies on the legal history and contemporary impacts of Myanmar’s citizenship regime.

15 Dec 2022

Graduate School in Asian Studies

The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University has received funding from the Swedish Research Council to establish a Graduate School in Asian Studies. 

14 Dec 2022

Kinas buddhistiske diplomati i Sri Lanka

New Danish article by Tabita Rosendal in Kinabladet

9 Dec 2022

Congratulations to Izzy who has received a research grant!

4 Nov 2022

Belt and Road Buddhism in Sri Lanka?

Tabita Rosendal has written an article for The Diplomat on China’s use of Buddhist diplomacy in Sri Lanka.

11 Oct 2022

Genealogy making and lineages in postsocialist China: Space, labor, and rituals under processes of heritagization

Marina Svensson has published a photo essay in Visual Ethnography.

20 Sep 2022

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.

8 Sep 2022

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

26 Aug 2022

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.

8 Aug 2022

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.