Published 26 September 2014 Abstract deadline: 1 December 2014Conference dates: 5-6 March 2015You are most welcome to the Eleventh Annual NAJS Conference. The conference will take place at the Centre for East and South-­East Asian Studies, Lund University.We invite paper proposals on a broad set of topics related to Japanese society and culture, past and present, including politics and internation

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Published 9 October 2014 Marina Svensson has published a chapter on Gender equality and empowerment in China: Discourses and experiences in a comparative perspective. The chapter is included in a book entitled Education, Media and Sexuality Health Services for Girls and Women: 20 Years Experiences of China's Policy and Practice. The book is part of the Education and Development for Rural Women and

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Published 24 October 2014 Mina Roces Mina Roces will be a visiting researcher here at the Centre from the beginning of October to the end of November. Mina Roces received her Phd in History from the University of Michigan and is presently Professor in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.Read more about Mina here

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Published 6 November 2014 Monica Lindberg Falk has published the monograph Post-Tsunami Recovery in Thailand: Socio-cultural responses. Routledge Series: The Modern Anthropology of Southeast Asia. This book addresses culture as an underpinning issue in post-disaster recovery,it uses original material collected in Thailand after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami to provide in-depth ethnography of Thail

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Published 2 December 2014 We congratulate Asian studies alumna Montserrat López Jerez who will defend her doctoral dissertation "Deltas Apart : Factor Endowments, Colonial Extraction and Pathways of Agricultural Development in Vietnam" at the Department of Economic History, Lund University. The public defence takes place on December 19, 10:15 in EC3: 207.AbstractThis study provides an explanation

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Published 17 December 2014 Marina Svensson has been promoted to Professor of Modern China Studies. Marina has been with the Centre since 2004 and is currently engaged in several research projects. She is project leader for a project on the Chinese digital society, as well as engaged in research on cultural heritage issues and on the role of documentary film in China.Read more about Marina here

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Published 26 February 2015 photo of Ann Kull from Sydsvenskan 2015-02-25 Article with Ann Kull in Sydsvenskan (in Swedish) Read the full article hereAnn is is a lecturer and researcher at the Centre and for more information about Ann’s research see here

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Published 14 April 2015 Dr. Ming-Chee Ang Dr. Ming-Chee Ang (better known to the students as Ming), the centre’s post-doctoral fellow (2013-2015) and currently a research fellow, has published her doctoral dissertation-turn-monograph, Institutions and Social Mobilization: The Chinese Education Movement in Malaysia, 1951-2011, in December 2014. According to Associate Professor Goh Beng Lan (Departm

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Published 23 April 2015 Tallyn Gray (UK), alumnus of the Master’s in Asian Studies A late congratulation to alumnus Tallyn Gray who received his PhD at the University of Westminsiter last summer!His dissertation “Justice and Transition in Cambodia, 1979-2014: Process, Meaning, and Narrative” has been shortlisted for the International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) Book Prize 2015.Read more abo

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Published 6 May 2015 Ming’s new article on “Chinese Education for Malaysians” is now published by three influential Chinese education movement organisations in Malaysia: Merdeka University Berhad, LLG Cultural Development Centre,Centre for Malaysian Chinese Studies. This article, presented during the 2014 Malaysia Chinese Education Conference, has critically analysed the issues and challenges face

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Published 8 June 2015 Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy Postdoctoral Fellow Jens Sejrup has a chapter in the newly released book Japanese Taiwan: Colonial Rule and its Contested Legacy, edited by Andrew Morris and published by Bloomsbury Academic. Entitled "Reliving the Past: The Narrative Themes of Repetition and Continuity in Japan-Taiwan News Coverage," Jens's chapter disc

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Published 24 June 2015 The conference took place at the Kulturen museum in Lund on 17-18 June and gathered twenty scholars and experts from China, the US, Europe, and Australia. The scholars represented different disciplines and fields, including heritage studies, art and architecture, cultural studies, anthropology, Sinology, and media and communication studies. The multifaceted and complex under

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Published 17 August 2015 Jens Sejrup August 2015 is turning into an unusually eventful month in Japan as the country marks the 70th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the end of the Pacific War as well as restarts operations at a nuclear power plant, the first one to be reactivated since the sector experienced a complete shutdown after the Fukushima disaster. A regula

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Published 25 August 2015 Diego García Rodríguez When sexuality meets faith - article in Inside Indonesia Diego García Rodríguez who graduated this year from the programme has an article titled "When sexuality meets faith" published online in Inside Indonesia.You can read the full article here. 

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Published 22 September 2015 China's Contested Internet, edited by Guobin Yang Jesper Schlæger and Marina Svensson have chapters in a new book on the Chinese Internet. Jesper Schlæger and Marina Svensson have chapters in a new book on the Chinese Internet, China's Contested Internet, edited by Guobin Yang and published by NIAS Press.For a Q&A with Yang Guobin on the new book, China's Contested Inte

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Published 13 October 2015 Growing Up in Mommy’s Blog - research article in Asiascape: Digital Asia Annika has published an article in the journal Asiascape: Digital Asia about mother-daughter blogs in mainland China, focusing on the changing generational relationship between mothers and young daughters.For further inquiries please contact Annika Pissin.You can find the article here  

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Published 28 October 2015 Jacco Visser Honorary Hydén award to alumnus Jacco Visser at Lund University Development Research Day 2015 The Hydén Award is granted annually to mark the best thesis on socio-economic and political issues in low- and middle-income countries, as presented by a Bachelor or Masters level student at Lund University.This year alumnus Jacco Visser who graduated in June this ye

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Published 11 November 2015 Photo by Marina Svensson Article (in Swedish) by Marina Svensoon in Kinarapport Marina Svensson has published an article (in Swedish), Chinese Photography: Propaganda, social documentary, and art, that discusses the development of photography in China and some recent photo exhibitions.The article was published in Kinarapport number 3, 2015, and is available here.  

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Published 14 December 2015 In the second issue of "Asia in Focus” (published ny NIAS) articles written by former students John Hennessey and Kees Krul can be found. John Hennessey (who graduated in 2011) has written an article titled "Creating a Colonial Consciousness? Reflections on Audience Reception at the Tokyo Colonization Exposition of 1912” and Kees Krul (who graduated in June this year) ha

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Published 21 January 2016 A late congratulations to Asian studies alumnus Korakit Choomgrant who was awarded a doctoral degree on August 13, 2015. The title of his dissertation was ”Out of the Closet: An Understanding of ’Queer Heritage' in the Context of Southeast Asia”.Korakit graduated from the Masters Programme in Asian Studies in 2009. He is currently an assistant dean for students affairs an

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