Associate Professor Liam C. Kelley of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) has recently published an article on “Sinology in Vietnam” in the Journal of Chinese History.Sinology is the study of “China,” and although the Vietnamese educated elite read and wrote classical Chinese for centuries, this paper argues that it is only in the twentieth century that a body of knowledge emerged in Vietnam that we can refer to as “Sinology,” as it was only at that time that nationalist concepts took hold and the educated elite came to see the world in terms…

Professor Chang-Yau Hoon of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam has recently co-authored a book together with Ying-kit Chan of the National University of Singapore entitled Southeast Asia in China: Historical Entanglements and Contemporary Engagements (Lexington Books, 2023).This volume examines various interactions and connections between Southeast Asia and China, both historical and contemporary, and it is innovative in that it attempts to do so from a Southeast Asian perspective.Professor David Shambaugh from George Washington University, who is also the author of Where Great Powers Meet: American & China in Southeast Asia commented that: “This unique volume is…

Senior Assistant Professor Sin Yee Koh of the Institute of Asian Studies at Universiti Brunei Darussalam (IAS @ UBD) has co-edited a journal special issue entitled “The Urbanising Dynamics of Global China: Speculation, Articulation, and Translation in Global Capitalism” with Professor Hyun Bang Shin (London School of Economics and Political Science) and Dr Yimin Zhao (Renmin University of China).Published in the journal, Urban Geography, the special issue contains four research articles and a commentary by Professor Tim Bunnell (National University of Singapore).Here is the full abstract of the special issue introduction:The assembled papers in this special issue jointly explore the…