Published 23 January 2025 Photo by Zalfa Imani on Unsplash President Trump says China is operating the Panama Canal. But is that the case?  Tabita Rosendal, PhD Candidate at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, was interviewed by France 24 on January 22, 2025, about President Trump's claims that China controls the Panama Canal. In the interview, Tabita explains that China has no direc

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Published 10 February 2025 Photo by Rikin Katyal on Unsplash.com Panama's "BRI-xit" due to US pressure has implications for China, but it could also lead to further geopolitical tensions Tabita Rosendal, PhD Candidate at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, has published an article in The Conversation about Panama's decision to leave the Belt and Road Initiative. In the article, she q

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Published 11 February 2025 16-19 June, 2025 Chinese globalisation both past and present has been deeply entangled in processes of global extractivism that have underpinned industrialisation and capitalist development around the world. From the 19th century gold rushes in settler colonial contexts to the contemporary global scramble for lithium, Chinese labour and capital have been key to the makin

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Published 14 February 2025 Five split screens are created to show different perspectives on the protest. Courtesy of the artists. 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 of AI-generated technology in documentary filmmaking. This article explores the expanded

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Published 19 February 2025 Photo by Victor Puente on Pexels.com 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  Tabita Rosendal, PhD Candidate at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, has been interviewed for the leading newspapers Dagens Nyheter (Sweden) and Exp

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Published 27 March 2025 Hambantota International Port as photographed in October 2023 by the author. 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 development of international Belt and Road Initiative port projects and who the primary beneficiary of this strategy is. Ta

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Published 31 March 2025 The South Korean Truth Commission holds a press conference at its office in Seoul. Source: South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The South Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission has released findings on human rights violations in international adoption practices, highlighting the state's failures in child welfare. On 26 March 2025, the South Korean Truth and

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Published 3 April 2025 Image generated by AI using ChatGPT. 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 international community. However, this willingness to adopt familiar terminology does not necessarily translate to strict adherence to their original definitions. Martin

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Published 7 April 2025 Memorial shrine festooned with bas-reliefs of Khmer Rouge atrocities at Wat Somrong Knong. Cambodia. ©Julian / Adobe Stock Article on the memory of 17 April 1975  At the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge take-over of Cambodia on 17 April 1975, the article looks back at this history and then traces out how the memory thereof plays out in contemporary politic

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Published 10 April 2025 As part of their internship, the candidate will conduct an individually defined academic or policy-orientated project with feedback from researchers at the Centre. The candidate will also be responsible for day-to-day outreach and administration tasks, such as social media management, organising and participating in events.As such, the candidate should have a strong interes

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Published 22 April 2025 Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com. At a time of increasing political polarizations and global challenges, including climate change and geo-political tensions and wars, and cut-backs in funding for studies on East and South-East Asia in many countries in Europe as well as in the United States, in-depth and context-specific expertise on the countries and cultures in East and Sou

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Published 1 July 2014 Marina has an article entitled “Heritage's place: heritage narratives in Chinese city promotional films," in the the book Branding Chinese Mega-Cities: Policies, Practices and Positioning ed. by Per Olof Berg and Emma Björner, Elgar, 2014.For further information please see here 

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Published 16 July 2014 Marina Svensson's article ‘Voice, power and connectivity in China’s microblogosphere: Digital divides on SinaWeibo’ has just been published in a special issue on the Chinese internet in the journal China Information , July 2014, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 168-188.

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Published 14 August 2014 EastAsiaNet has recently announced that the 2014 Award for Best Academic Article goes to Dr. Jens Sejrup of Lund University for his paper, "Instrumentalized History and the Motif of Repetition in News Coverage of Japan-Taiwan Relations," published in Pacific Affairs, vol. 85, no. 4, pp. 745–765. The EastAsiaNet Award recognizes and encourages exemplary scholarship in conte

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Published 27 January 2014 The conference welcomes papers that take gender as a critical tool of analysis in studies of media, culture, communication and ICTs. The focus of the conference is studies on China and the Nordic countries, but studies on other regions as well as more general or theoretical papers are also welcome. Scholars from different disciplines and research fields, among others gend

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Published 11 March 2014 Four new working papers in the Centre's Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies series are now available as PDF files.To the working papers

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Published 17 February 2014 Sustainable City Development: Theories, methods, challenges, and experiences in China and the Nordic countries in Shanghai 28-31 October. Call for papers to research workshop and ph.d course with deadline 1 April, 2014.These activities are organised by the Sino-Nordic Urban Governance for Sustainable Cities Network of which the Centre is a member.For further information

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Published 25 March 2014 Lund University hereby declares the following vacancy at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies open for application. The application deadline is May 15, 2014. Please spread this information in your networks.More information

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Published 4 April 2014 Postdoctoral research fellow Jens Sejrup has published the article "Awakening the Sufferers: Reflections on Public Relations, Activism, and Subalternity in Postcolonial Controversies between Taiwan and Japan" in SAGE journal Public Relations Inquiry, vol. 3, no. 1 (2014).

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Published 23 April 2014 Marina has an article entitled “Heritage's place: heritage narratives in Chinese city promotional films," in the the book Branding Chinese Mega-Cities: Policies, Practices and Positioning ed. by Per Olof Berg and Emma Björner, Elgar, 2014.For further information see here (new window)

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