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Marina Svensson's article “Connectivity, Engagement and Witnessing on China’s Weibo,” has just been published in Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, and Guobin Yang eds. The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China , University of Pennsylvania Press (2016). Marina Svensson's article “Connectivity, Engagement and Witnessing on China’s Weibo,” has just been published in Jacques deLisle, Avery Gold

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-marina-svensson-connectivity-engagement-and-witnessing-chinas-weibo - 2025-11-19

From 23 August to 30 September the Digital China project is hosting Professor Hu Yong. Prof. Hu Yong is a professor of journalism and communication, Peking University, and a leading scholar on the Chinese Internet. During his stay Professor will among other things give a guest lecture. 

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/digital-china-project-hosting-professor-hu-yong - 2025-11-19

Professor Marina Svensson is from 1 October new director of the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies. Prof. Svensson takes over the role from Professor Roger Greatrex who is now retiring.Prof. Marina Svensson came to the Centre in 2004 and is since 2014 Professor of Modern China Studies. Marina has received research grants from the Swedish Research Council, Riksbankens Jubileumsfond, and t

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-director - 2025-11-19

In the forthcoming issue of Pacific Affairs Dr. Astrid Norén-Nilsson will have an article titled "Good Gifts, Bad Gifts and Rights: Cambodian Popular Perceptions and the 2013 Elections” published.  The article explores changing popular conceptions of appropriate models of provision to assess to what extent there has been a growth of a rights-based conscience in Cambodia under the current neo-patri

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-dr-astrid-noren-nilsson - 2025-11-19

On 16 November, the Centre gathered 19 scholars at Lund University, including six scholars at the Centre, to discuss their research and possible future collaboration. The Centre has identified some 26 scholars at Lund University, including ph.d students and more senior scholars, but all were not able to attend. The plan is to arrange some further networking meetings in the coming months. The Centr

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/research-day-east-and-south-east-asian-studies - 2025-11-19

On 8 December the Lund Human Rights Research Hub will be launched at the Main Building of Lund University . This collaborative initiative brings together more than 50 researchers from different departments and research centres at Lund University to stimulate cooperation on research, education and dissemination of human rights issues. The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies is one of the p

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/lund-human-rights-research-hub - 2025-11-19

In the latest issue of Lund University Magasin, Centre Director Marina Svensson talks about the importance of interdisciplinary research about East and South-East Asia. In a period of rapid changes and new developments after Donald Trump was elected president scholars with knowledge about China and Japan will play an increasingly important role.You can read the full article in the Lund University

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/importance-interdisciplinary-research-about-asia - 2025-11-19

In our course Contemporary South Asian Societies we have the pleasure of having one of our former students, Emilija Zabiliute, as a lecturer. Emilija was a student on our masters programme between 2008-2010 and received her PhD from the University of Copenhagen in 2016.  Could you please tell us a bit about yourself?I have started studying South Asia, namely India, since my BA studies in classical

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/meet-alumna-emilija-zabiliute - 2025-11-19

Dr. Nicholas Loubere is one of the co-editors of the book Understanding Global Development Research: Fieldwork Issues, Experiences and Reflections recently published by SAGE. The volume opens up new perspectives on conducting fieldwork in the Global South. Following an interdisciplinary and intergenerational approach, it brings into dialogue reflections on fieldwork experiences by leading scholars

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/book-dr-nicholas-loubere - 2025-11-19

The Centre has recruited three Associate Senior Lecturers working in respectively the fields of contemporary Japan, South-East Asia and China. Paul O’Shea completed his Ph.D. at the University of Sheffield in 2012, and most recently served as a lecturer at Aarhus University between 2013-2016. He focuses on the international relations of East Asia, in particular Japan and its relations with China a

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/three-new-associate-senior-lecturers - 2025-11-19

In the recent issue of the Lund University Research Magazine (Fokus Forskning) with the theme "Is the world becoming a better place?" there is an article about our researcher Astrid Norén-Nilsson and her research on politics in Cambodia. You can read the article here (in English) or here (in Swedish)And you can find our more about Astrid's resarch here on her personal web site 

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/developments-make-research-cambodian-politics-even-more-urgent - 2025-11-19

Marina Svensson has a new article entitled “The Networked China Researcher: Challenges and Possibilities in the Social Media Age,” published in Asiascape: Digital Asia, 4 (2017), pp. 76-102. Abstract of articleThe internet has opened up new possibilities for scholars to gather data and, in general, to stay updated on rapidly changing developments in the Chinese society. Social media has added yet

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-prof-marina-svensson - 2025-11-19

Our recent event "Democracy and Human Rights in East and Southeast Asia: Developments and Challenges" was filmed by UR (Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company) and is now available for viewing on there site UR Play. Click the links below to see each speaker as well as the panel discussion. Everything is in English and has Swedish sub titels. Democracy and Development in Southeast Asia: China’s L

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/democracy-and-human-rights-east-and-southeast-asia-developments-and-challenges - 2025-11-19

In the recent issue of the Lund University Research Magazine (Fokus Forskning) with the theme ”The digital society” Professor Marina Svensson talks about the ”Digital China” research project. The project started in 2013  and aims to explore the ways in which the internet has impacted on Chinese society: what is the internet used for, how are Chinese citizens adapting to a networked society control

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/figuring-out-chinese-internet-puzzle - 2025-11-19

Nicholas Loubere and Marina Svensson attended the Nordic Association of China Studies conference at Aarhus University, Denmark. At the  13th biennial conference of the Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS), held on June 6 – 8, 2017 at Aarhus University, Denmark,  Marina Svensson gave one of the keynotes entitled The Chinese heritage: Authorized heritage discourse, new voices, and local engage

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/conference-news-centre-scholars-attending-nordic-association-china-studies-nacs-conference - 2025-11-19

Marina has a new article (online first, free download) entitled “Digitally enabled engagement and witnessing: the Sichuan earthquake on independent documentary film” in Studies in Documentary Film. The article is part of a special issue she has co-edited on activism and documentary film in China, and the article can be dowloaded hereOne of the films discussed in Marina's article is 1428 (see trail

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-publication-marina-svensson-documentary-film-china - 2025-11-19

New article by Nicholas Loubere Nicholas Loubere has a new article entitled "Questioning Transcription: The Case for the Systematic and Reflexive Interviewing and Reporting (SRIR) Method," published open access in Forum: Qualitative Social Research, vol. 18, no. 2 (2017).  

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/questioning-transcription-case-systematic-and-reflexive-interviewing-and-reporting-srir-method - 2025-11-19

The fourth issue of "Asia in Focus" (published by NIAS) is now out and freely available In the issue, alumnus Patrik Andersson (who graduated in 2016) has a written a book review on Pei Minxin's "China’s Crony Capitalism: The Dynamics of Regime Decay".You can find the journal here: http://www.asiainfocus.dk/

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/book-review-alumnus-patrik-andersson - 2025-11-19

The inaugural Made in China Summer School was held from 17 to 21 July, 2017 at the Venice International University campus on San Servolo—a small picturesque island situated in the Venetian Lagoon. Over five intensive days, fifty-five participants engaged in lively discussions on issues related to Chinese labour, civil society, and rights at the Made in China Summer School. Presentations were given

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/made-china-summer-school - 2025-11-19

Astrid Norén-Nilsson’s book "Cambodia’s Second Kingdom: Nation, Imagination, and Democracy" shortlisted for EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize. Astrid Norén-Nillson’s book Cambodia’s Second Kingdom: Nation, Imagination, and Democracy (Ithaca: Cornell Southeast Asia Program 2016) has been shortlisted for EuroSEAS Social Science Book Prize for the best academic book on Southeast Asia published in th

https://www.ace.lu.se/article/book-astrid-noren-nilsson-shortlisted-book-prize - 2025-11-19