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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 - 2026-06-05
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
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
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 - 2026-06-05
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
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 - 2026-06-05
New research project on "Struggles for Peace in a Changing World Order: Insights from the Thai-Cambodian border" Astrid Norén-Nilsson has received a grant from Formas (Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development) for the 4-year project "Struggles for Peace in a Changing World Order: Insights from the Thai-Cambodian border" (2026-2030). With Robin Biddulph (Gothenburg University) and Mun M
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/astrid-noren-nilsson-receives-formas-grant - 2026-06-05
We are incredibly proud to celebrate Gina, Chontida and Tabita, who on Friday 29 May were conferred their doctoral degrees at Lund University’s annual ceremony in Lund Cathedral. This long-standing academic tradition marks the occasion when new doctors receive their doctoral insignia, including the hat or laurel wreath, in recognition of their achievements. The ceremony is known as promotion in Sw
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/celebrating-our-three-new-doctors - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-associate-professor-marina-svensson - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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.
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-associate-professor-marina-svensson - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/dr-jens-sejrup-wins-2014-eastasianet-award-best-academic-article - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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 diffe
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-papers-conference-gender-and-communication-22-23-september-2014-beijing - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-working-papers - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/postdoctoral-fellow-modern-chinese-studies - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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).
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-dr-jens-sejrup - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. 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)
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-associate-professor-marina-svensson-0 - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The centre is currently looking for a full time administrator (limited tenure to 2015-07-31). QualificationsDocumented excellent ability in Swedish and English, a B.A. or comparable qualification in economics, experience of the administrative systems in use at Lund University (e.g. purchasing routines, DFS, Primula, e
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/availble-job-centre - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Malte P. Benjamins who graduated in 2013 from the programme has an article titled "International actors in NIMBY controversies: Obstacle or opportunity for environmental campaigns?" published online in the China Information journal. The article will also available be in China Information's November issue.To the artic
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-alumnus-malte-p-benjamins - 2026-06-05
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Deadline: 15 October 2014 Conference dates: 11-14 August 2015 The European Association for Southeast Asian Studies (EuroSEAS) will hold its 8th conference from 11 to 14 August 2015 at the University of Vienna and the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna, Austria. As an international and multi-disciplinary organisati
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/call-panel-proposals-8th-euroseas-conference-vienna - 2026-06-05
