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East and South-East Asian Studies is an interdisciplinary subject that focuses on contemporary phenomena and processes in the region as a whole as well as in individual countries. The subject integrates theoretical and methodological perspectives from area studies with different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Application deadline March 1, 2026. Announcement and applicationCaref

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centre-announces-1-fully-funded-phd-position-east-and-south-east-asian-studies - 2026-07-09

Panama's decision exemplifies increasing pressure exerted by the US on Latin American countries, and could spell trouble for Beijing's strategic interests in the region Last week, Tabita Rosendal spoke with France 24 about Panama’s decision to revoke CK Hutchison’s port concessions in Balboa and Cristobal. She explained that the move reflects growing pressure from the Trump administration and fits

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-was-interviewed-france-24-about-panamas-decision-revoke-ck-hutchisons-port - 2026-07-09

Our PhD candidate Gina Song Lopez has recently published her article titled “Going Plant-Forward? Dietary Publics and Plant-Based Lifestyle Advocacy in Contemporary China” in Asian Studies Review. The article discusses China’s growing vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian ‘dietary publics’ across online and offline foodscapes. The study combines digital food studies with onsite fieldwork, and foregro

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/going-plant-forward-china - 2026-07-09

Ranil Wickremesinghe, who was President of Sri Lanka from 2022 to 2024, utilized Buddhist diplomacy to ensure his political legitimacy and longevity - similarly to other Sri Lankan leaders of state Tabita Rosendal has published a new open‑access book chapter in Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia, edited by Jack Meng‑Tat Chia, examining Ranil Wickremesinghe’s use of Buddhist diplomacy. Th

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/tabita-rosendal-has-published-new-open-access-book-chapter-buddhist-diplomacy-former-sri-lankan - 2026-07-09

Researcher Dr. Elizabeth Rhoads was recently interviewed in Nature about her work with Myanmar students and educational providers in displacement. The Pilot Capstone Project led by Lund University and housed at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies is an international consortium including University of Toronto, Northern Illinois University, University of Montana, and Palacky University

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/centres-outreach-program-myanmar-students-impacted-conflict-and-displacement-highlighted-nature - 2026-07-09

On Monday, 23 March, Gina (Chih-Lan) Song Lopez successfully defended her dissertation "Foodscapes of Civil Society: Veg*n advocacy and sustainability transitions in the Sino-cultural sphere" This dissertation is about social change ‘and’, ‘with’, as well as ‘through’ food. It examines the rise and expansion of novel approaches to veganism and plant-based lifestyles in the Sino-cultural sphere by

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/gina-chih-lan-song-lopez-has-received-her-doctorate-degree - 2026-07-09

Lund University is recruiting an Assistant Professor (Associate Senior Lecturer) within the Lund University Programme for Global Excellence. The position will be placed within one of five sustainability themes in the humanities or theology. One of the themes is Governance, Justice and Sustainable Futures (PDF, new tab), placed at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies.The application dea

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/assistant-professor-southeast-asian-studies-specialising-governance-justice-and-sustainable-futures - 2026-07-09

In a new Critical Asian Studies article, Kimhean Hok uncovers reform patterns that have significantly strengthened Cambodia’s administrative state while reinforcing authoritarian rule. In the article, Kimhean Hok argues that Cambodia should no longer be understood simply as a system with a strong ruling party and a weak state. Instead, he shows that the country has undergone what he calls a “techn

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-open-access-article-technocracy-cambodian-politics - 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, focusing on the Trump-Abe era. The title of the article is “Making the alliance even greater”: (Mis-)managing U.S.-Japan relations in the age of Trump." The other author is Sebastian Maslow. It's open-access and published in the journal Asian Security. I

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-open-access-article-japan-us-alliance-focusing-donald-trump-and-shinzo-abe - 2026-07-09

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