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17 Nov 2025
New publication: Special Focus section in SOJOURN on the Local Impacts of Covid-19 in Cambodia
Astrid Norén-Nilsson has co-edited a special focus section in the Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia (SOJOURN) on the local impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic in Cambodia.
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14 Oct 2025
Call for Applications: Early-Career Visiting Scholar in Korean Studies
The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University is pleased to announce the launch of the NEST (Nordic–Lund Emerging Scholars Teaching Program in Korean Studies)...
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3 Oct 2025
“Going Vegan” in Taiwan: Animal Liberation and Climate Activism
Gina Song Lopez has published an article in the International Journal of Taiwan Studies examining the development of a ‘new’ vegan movement in Taiwan over the past decade.
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1 Oct 2025
Call for Papers - Asia in Focus issue no 12
We are happy to announce a call for papers for the next issue of the Asia in Focus journal—published by the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University—with a pla...
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25 Sep 2025
Asia in Focus Issue no. 11 is out now!
The latest issue of Asia in Focus - issue no. 11 has just been published. This issue features three thought-provoking articles on anti-cult measures, student protests, and shadow e...
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28 Aug 2025
New publication: Seeing the glass half full amid Japan’s vacant housing crisis
Julia Olsson has published an article in East Asia Forum on how Japan has been tackling its vacant housing problem through policy reforms and awareness campaigns, offering lessons ...
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12 Jun 2025
South Korea is finally reckoning with its decades-long foreign adoption scandal
Youngeun Koo writes for The Conversation on Korean-Swedish international adoption history.
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4 Jun 2025
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
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
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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.
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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
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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
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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...
