Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies

The Joint Faculties of Humanities and Theology

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19 Feb 2025 | News

Tabita Rosendal has been interviewed for Dagens Nyheter and Expresso about China's role in the Panama Canal

Five split screens are created to show different perspectives on the protest. Courtesy of the artists.

14 Feb 2025 | News

New Research: Digitalizing Xianchang: Documentary Experiments on Shanghai COVID Lockdown

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...

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11 Feb 2025 | News

Global China Summer School 2025: China in Circuits of Global Extractivism

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...

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10 Feb 2025
Tabita Rosendal has published an article in The Conversation about Panama's decision to leave the Belt and Road Initiative
Panama's "BRI-xit" due to US pressure has implications for China, but it could also lead to further geopolitical tensions
23 Jan 2025
Tabita Rosendal was interviewed about China's involvement in the Panama Canal
President Trump says China is operating the Panama Canal. But is that the case?
13 Jan 2025
New article on Japan-EU security relations
Paul O'Shea published a peer-reviewed article with East Asia Forum on the developments in EU-Japan political and security relations.
9 Jan 2025
Nordic Asia Podcasts
The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies together with the Graduate School in Asian Studies have recently produced three episodes of the Nordic Asia Podcast.
11 Dec 2024
Memories of Aceh Chinese: We too remember, we too belong
New article by Chontida Auikool in the Conversation.
4 Dec 2024
Release of Anthology 'Feminist Activism in the Post-2010 Sinosphere'
We are excited to announce the release of a new anthology 'Feminist Activism in the Post-2010 Sinosphere: Identifying Issues, Sharing Knowledge, Building Movements' (Bloomsbury Aca...
15 Nov 2024
New publication: Opium of the People? Religious Politics in the Xi Jinping Era
Martin Lavička wrote a chapter in the new edited volume China under Xi Jinping: An Interdisciplinary Assessment, just published by Brill.
13 Nov 2024
New Publication: "The Paradoxical Development of Liberal Governance: International Adoption Policy and Professional Social Work in Authoritarian South Korea, 1953–1976”
Youngeun Koo has published an open-access article in the Journal of Social History on the history of the orphan registry and adoption law, exploring the emergence of modern governa...
4 Nov 2024
Korean translation of Global China as Method
A Korean translation of the book Global China as Method (co-authored by Nicholas Loubere and Ivan Franceschini) has been published.
25 Oct 2024
Congratulations to Astrid and Paul!
Who have both received RJ (Riksbankens Jubileumsfond) Sabbatical grants.