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This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. At the recent Lund University Homecoming Weekend the Centre arranged an event where we invited three alumni to share their experiences. One of the alumni was Sune Petersen who graduated from the Masters Programme in Asian Studies in 2015 and is now a Project Administrator at DIGNITY - Danish Institute Against Torture.
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/meet-alumnus-sune-petersen - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Do Chinese cities compete for investments with lax environmental law enforcement? This article by Stefan Brehm and Jesper Svensson offers a tentative answer by analysing political and economic factors shaping spatial patterns of compliance with environmental transparency legislation. Do Chinese cities compete for inve
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Niall Duggan graduated from the Masters Programme in Asian Studies in 2007. He is now the Director of the MSC International Public Policy and Diplomacy at Department of Government, University College Cork, Ireland (UCC). Why did you decide to study the Master’s programme in Asian Studies at Lund University?After finis
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/meet-alumnus-niall-duggan - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Associate Professor Erik Mobrand from the Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University, will be a visiting scholar at the Centre from January to mid-February 2018. Trained in political science, Erik has a regional focus on Korea and China. His research and teaching areas cover development studie
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-scholar - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Grants awarded from the Swedish Research Council. Dr Astrid Norén Nilsson at the Centre has together with Professor Anders Uhlin received a grant from the Swedish Research Council. They will over the coming three years work on a project on civil society in Cambodia and Indonesia.Dr Darcy Pan from the department of ant
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/grants-research-cambodia-and-china - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson has written a country review on Cambodia in a new book titled "Routledge Handbook of Civil Society in Asia". The chapter examines competing understandings of Cambodian civil society through the prisms of civil society and the state; the role of the international donor community; and the re-emer
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/book-chapter-cambodian-civil-society - 2026-05-15
Stefan Brehm and Nicholas Loubere have co-authored an article on the Chinese social credit system for The Conversation. The Chinese government’s ongoing attempts to create a social credit system aimed at rating the trustworthiness of people and companies is often depicted as something uniquely Chinese. In this article Stefan Brehm and Nicholas Loubere argue that Chinese social credit is a phenomen
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/article-chinese-social-credit-conversation - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Nicholas Loubere at the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, shares some reflections on the major achievements as well as the downsides of China’s reform period ahead of the upcoming conference “Assessing 40 Years of Reform and Opening in China” What have been the major changes in China since the reform and o
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/nicholas-loubere-china-today-40-years-after-reform-and-opening - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Associate professor Ji Fangfang from the Institute of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing, is a visiting scholar at the Centre during March. Her research focuses on Internet publicness in China and media globalization. Her stay at the Centre is funded by the Birgit Ra
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-scholar-0 - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Centre invites Swedish and Nordic Ph.D. students with an interest in East and South-East Asia to spend 1-2 months at the Centre during the fall 2018. While we are not able to offer any funding we will provide office space, access to the library, as well as possibilities to organize research seminars.Interested Ph.
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/calls-visiting-phd-students - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. John Hennessey who graduated from the Centre in 2011 successfully defended his Ph.D. thesis at the Linné University, Växsjö on 9 March . The thesis studies Japanese colonial history and is entitled, Rule by Association: Japan in the Global Trans-Imperial Culture, 1868–1912.Professor Alexis Dudden, University of Connec
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/former-master-student-john-hennessey-defends-phd-thesis-history - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The latest issue of "Made in China: A Quarterly on Chinese Labour, Civil Society, and Rights" has been published, with contributions from Nicholas Loubere and Stefan Brehm. On 12 May 2008, a 7.9 magnitude earthquake hit Wenchuan county, Sichuan province. Felt as far as Beijing, the tremors caused horrific damage: 69,2
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-issue-made-china-published-0 - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. The Centre has received two grants that will strengthen its work on Korea during the coming academic year. Beginning in September and running through to March, the grant from the Academy of Korea Studies will fund eight guest lectures on different aspects of Korean society, such as politics, digital developments, popu
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/grants-strengthen-centres-work-korea - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. See what our researcher Dr. Paul O’Shea has to say about the recent developments Two articles on this issue have recently been published, one on the Lund Univeristy website, you can find the article here (in Swedish) and one in the Sydsvenskan newspaper here (also in Swedish). For an English translation of the text in
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/moon-behind-improvement-north-korea-issue - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Seo-Young Cho will be a visiting scholar at the Centre between 26 November and 20 December 2018. Seo-Young Cho is assistant professor of economics at Philipps-University of Marburg in Germany. Her research focuses on economic analysis of human trafficking, female migration, social capital, cyber activities, gender dif
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/visiting-scholar-centre - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 21 May, Dr Astrid Norén-Nilsson presented on “Cambodia; Towards 2018 elections and beyond” at the London School of Economics and Political Science Southeast Asia Forum (SEAF). The SEAF is an annual event organised by the Saw Swee Hock Southeast Asia Centre (SEAC), a cross-disciplinary, regionally-focused academic c
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/cambodia-towards-2018-elections-and-beyond - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 14-15 June, Marina Svensson attended a meeting of the European Alliance for Asian Studies in Turin. The focus was on collaboration and promoting Asian studies in Europe. At the next International Convention of Asia Scholars in Leiden on 15-19 July 2019 the Alliance will run some joint panels on the future of Asian
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/european-alliance-asian-studies - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. On 17th of September Dr. Paul O'Shea participated in the 79th Stockholm Seminar 'Japan-Russia Relations: The Islands Dispute and Geopolitical Culture'. Four islands – which are controlled by Russia but claimed by Japan – are the subject of a disagreement stretching back more than two generations. As a result, Japan an
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/podcast-japan-russia-relations - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Nicholas Loubere has co-authored an article on Chinese migration and gold mining in the journal International Migration. This article examines irregular Southİ\South migration from China to Ghana, and the role it played in transforming livelihoods and broader developmental landscapes. It looks at the entry of approxim
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/new-article-chinese-gold-rush-ghana - 2026-05-15
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Sweden is lagging behind other European countries and it is necessary to also educate the next generation of China experts in Sweden On October 18th, Marina Svensson, the director of the Centre, presented a background paper entitled Challenges for China Research and State of the Field in Europe: Lessons for Sweden at
https://www.ace.lu.se/article/need-more-research-about-china - 2026-05-15
