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 of the different pathways

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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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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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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 (Department of Southeast Asian S

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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 about Tallyn’s research her

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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 faced by the six decades

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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 discusses high-level Taiwa

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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 understandings, negotiations

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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 regular commentator on current

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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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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 Internet, see this link

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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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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 year from the program receiv

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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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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) has written an article titled

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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 and lecturer on the Tourism

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Some of the speakers and participants attending the symposium. The proceedings from the Focus Asia titled "E-Governance in Asia: Strengthening transparency and accountability?" are now available. 12-13 November 2015 the Centre arranged Focus Asia: E-Governance in Asia: Strengthening transparency and accountability?From a critical perspective the symposium examined the state-of-the-art of e-governa

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Likki-Lee speaking in the General Assembly Hall, UN headquarters, NYC 60 Students will be selected as delegates to the 2016 United Nations Academic Impact Global Youth Forum, 25-31 July, 2016, where they will create action plans related to the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The students will present these action plans at United Nations Headquarters in New York City. The de

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The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, is hereby announcing three tenure track positions; Associated Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern China (application now closed) Associated Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern Japan (application now closed) Associated Senior Lecturer in the Study of Modern South-East Asia (application now closed) Please follow these instructi

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Three new working papers in the Centre's Working Papers in Contemporary Asian Studies have now been published. Each year a number of theses written by students in our Masters Programme in Asian Studies are selected to be published in our working paper series. Among the students who graduated in 2015 the following theses were selected to be published and are now available as working papers:Japan’s

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