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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Astrid Norén-Nilsson has published an article on online news as a governance innovation in the journal Critical Asian Studies. The article is titled "Fresh News, innovative news: popularizing Cambodia’s authoritarian turn". It seeks to advance understanding of how the new logics of an expanding digital media system ca

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-how-online-news-platform-has-supported-transition-hegemonic-authoritarianism-cambodia - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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. Written together with Sebastian Maslow, the article considers the prospects for the Japan-US alliance over the coming four years. It finds that the Biden adminis

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/united-states-japan-alliance-post-trump-world - 2026-07-09

Paul O'Shea has written an article in the Conversation analyzing Covid exceptionalism in the cases of Japan and Sweden. The article examines national exceptionalism in political and media rhetoric in Japan and Sweden since the onset of the pandemic. It finds that Japanese exceptionalism was 'classic exceptionalism', insofar as the rhetoric highlighted particular elements of Japanese culture meanin

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-conversation-japan-sweden-and-covid-exceptionalism - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Elizabeth Rhoads examines dispossession of religious minorities in a new article on Myanmar. Myanmar’s systematic dispossession of religious and ethnic minorities is well-documented as a tool for counterinsurgency through territorialisation. However, the specific contours of the relationship between minorities, territ

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-property-citizenship-and-invisible-dispossession-myanmars-urban-frontier - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Marina Svensson has written an article on academic freedom in Utrikesmagasinet published by the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. The article (in Swedish) provides an overview to the issue of academic freedom in China and its global implications. It also briefly addresses the wider and general debates on aca

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-academic-freedom-china-and-its-global-implications - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. In The Social Construction of Internet Addiction in China: Youth between Reality and Temporal Autonomy in the Documentary Web Junkie, Annika Pissin addresses issues surrounding the social construction of internet addiction, focusing on conceptualisations of reality, escape, hope, and time. Drawing on a critical realis

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-internet-reality-and-temporal-autonomy-china - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Since 2017 the international Chinese Studies community has been shocked to discover that many of the major commercial academic publishers have been actively working with the Chinese censors to limit access to ‘politically sensitive’ books and articles within the country in order to maintain access to the lucra-tive Ch

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-censorship-academic-freedom-and-academic-publishing-inon-china - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Marina Svensson has published an article in the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs entitled “‘Crazy Jack’ and the ‘Gay CEO’: Visions, Entrepreneurship, and the Chinese State in the New Digital Economy.” This article analyses the visions, careers, and companies of Jack Ma of Alibaba and Geng Le of Blue City. Jack Ma is

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-chinese-digital-society - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The People’s Map of Global China tracks China’s complex and rapidly changing international activities by engaging an equally global civil society. The Map is the result of a collaboration between academics, NGOs, journalists, trade unions, and the public at large to explore various dimensions of Global China in their

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/we-are-happy-announce-launch-peoples-map-global-china - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Astrid Norén-Nilsson discusses her research about the Cambodian online news outlet Fresh News with Duncan McCargo. In this podcast, Astrid Norén-Nilsson  discusses her latest research about the Cambodian online news outlet Fresh News with Duncan McCargo, the Director of NIAS. Fresh News has become an indispensable sou

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/podcast-politics-online-news-cambodia - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Astrid Norén-Nilsson discussed recent political developments in Cambodia for Sydney Southeast Asia Centre's flagship Politics in Action forum Drawing upon expertise from around the world, Sydney Southeast Asia Centre's flagship Politics in Action forum provides up-to-date information on developments in Southeast Asia

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/cambodia-update-politics-action-2021 - 2026-07-09

As Japanese public opinion turns resolutely against summer Olympics, will Tokyo cancel? Paul O'Shea has published an article in the Conversation on the topic of the upcoming Olympic Games. Should Japan cancel the games - can Japan cancel them? Although public opinion is overwhelming against them, there are other issues at stake: international prestige, contract law, geopolitics, and of course: mon

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-politics-olympics - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Paul O'Shea talks to Al Jazeera International about the politics behind the Olympics. Paul appeared on 'The Stream' alongside a panel of academics and experts, sharing his analysis of Japanese politics and how it might affect the staging of the Olympics this summer. You can watch his contribution on the following link

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/how-safe-are-tokyo-olympics-covid-19 - 2026-07-09

This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies are hiring one or two researchers, preferably with a focus on contemporary China, 50% to 100% according to agreement, during the period 2021-08-16 to 2021-12-31.  The work consists of assisting in the preparation of a EU application with deadline 7 October, and then res

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-east-and-south-east-asian-studies-are-hiring-one-or-two-researchers - 2026-07-09

Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has guest edited a special issue for Contemporary Southeast Asia The special issue, guest edited by Neil Loughlin and Astrid Norén-Nilsson, sheds new light on the CPP's ongoing attempts to recalibrate its mode of governance and the future it envisages for Cambodia. It includes two articles by Astrid Norén-Nilsson: "Introduction to Special Issue: The Cambodian People’s Party

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/special-issue-cambodias-turn-hegemonic-authoritarianism - 2026-07-09

Will the appeal of the Western-led global democratic order triumph over China’s pragmatic approach to infrastructure investments? In this op-ed, Tabita Rosendal Ebbesen, PhD student at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, explores the possibility that the two new infrastructure investment initiatives proposed by the US and EU might pose a challenge to China’s Belt a

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/battle-bris-how-west-plans-challenge-chinas-rise-through-infrastructure-and-why-it-might-not-succeed - 2026-07-09

Vi vill få en bild av vad svenska ungdomar lär sig om Öst- och sydöstasien i skolan. Detta kan hjälpa oss förstå vilken kunskap unga människor idag har om regionen. I dagens globala samhälle och med Asiens växande betydelse är det intressant att se hur regionen beskrivs, vilka frågor som belyses, och vilka eventuella brister det finns i läroböcker, samt om och hur lärare använder annat material. 

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/intresserad-att-skriva-en-rapport-bilden-av-ost-och-sydostasien-i-larobockerundervisning-i-skolan - 2026-07-09

Paul O'Shea has published two articles on the latest developments in Japanese politics The Olympics and the related fifth Covid wave have contributed to the resignation of Japanese Prime Minister Suga Yoshihide. Read about how Covid and the Olympics affected his popularity here, and what happens next here.  

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/two-new-articles-japanese-politics-conversation - 2026-07-09

Paul O'Shea has co-authored an opinion article in The Guardian newspaper on the past, present, and future of Japanese democracy. What makes a democracy democratic? If one-party dominates, and there is no real choice, is it still a democracy? Japan faces an election, but with no viable opposition emerging to challenge the ruling-LDP, voters are left with little choice. The conservative LDP, dominat

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/op-ed-guardian-state-japanese-democracy - 2026-07-09

Paul O'Shea has written a chapter on the topic of Japanese foreign policy under the Democratic Party of Japan. Governing from 2009-2012, the landslide election of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) was supposed to usher in a new era in Japanese politics. Within three years, they were out of office, and shortly afterwards the party dissolved. This chapter examines the DPJ's foreign policy and how

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-japanese-foreign-policy - 2026-07-09