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PhD theses

PhD theses related to Asian Studies, published at Swedish universities from 2022 onwards.

2026

Gina (Chih-Lan) Song Lopez, Lund University
Foodscapes of Civil Society: Veg*n advocacy and sustainability transitions in the Sino-cultural sphere (new tab)

Cheryl Fung, Lund University
Civic Visuals on Instagram: A subtle form of civic engagement in Hong Kong (new tab)

Chontida Auikool, Lund University
Aceh Chinese Negotiated Belonging: Memory, Place, and Identity (new tab)

 

2025

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

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

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

2024

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

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

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

2023

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

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 (new tab)

 

2022

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

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

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