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PhD theses

PhD theses relating to Asian Studies and published at Swedish universities in 2022 and onwards.

2025

Tabita Rosendal, Lund University
Fragmented Power: The Reception of China's Foreign Policy Strategies in Sri Lanka

Joanne Kuai, Karlstad University
AI, News, and the State: Reinstitutionalising Journalism in Global China’s Algorithmic Age

Jonathan Krämer, Stockholm University
Screening labor: Migrant workers, medical examinations, and clinics in Lombok, Indonesia
 

2024

Yeonju Jung, Stockholm University
Beyond Dichotomies: Making Sense of China’s Engagement in Global Peace Governance

Paul Vrieze, Gothenburg University
Resisting the Return of Military Rule - Coalition Building, Armed Struggle and Governance by Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Movement

Shen Qing, Uppsala University
Queer Fun in Shanghai: The Social Lives of Elderly Working-Class Chinese Men
 

2023

Elton Chan, Lund University
The Last Urban Frontier: Commodification of Public Space and the Right to the City in Insurgent Hong Kong

Kim Jarle Wroldsen, Stockholm University
Hand-in-Hand in the Peach Flower Land : Analysis of Huí Cadre Agency in the Literature Propaganda Magazine Kāidū River in the North-West Borderland of China

 

2022

Macario Lacbawan, Uppsala University
The Burden of Responsibility: Predicaments of Environmental Life in the Caraballo Mountains, Northern Philippines

Thorsteinn Kristinsson, Lund University
 Webs of World Order: A Relational Theory of Rising Powers and the Evolution of International Order

Savina Sirik, Gothenburg University
Negotiating Memories: Survivor Narratives of Victimhood in Post-Conflict Cambodia