About Julie Yu-Wen Chen

Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki (Finland). Dr. Chen serves as one of the Editors of the Journal of Chinese Political Science (Springer, SSCI). Formerly, she was chair of Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS) and Editor-in-Chief of Asian Ethnicity (Taylor & Francis). From 2023-2025, she is in the EU twinning project "The EU in the Volatile Indo-Pacific Region (EUVIP)" where she leads the preparatory research and provides supervision and counselling to junior researchers (https://www.euvip-project.com). In 2024, she also leads a policy-oriented project “Order in the Indo-Pacific” sponsored by Germany’s Stiftung Mercator.

Julie Yu-Wen Chen is Professor of Chinese Studies at the Department of Cultures at the University of Helsinki (Finland).

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NBN Episodes hosted by Julie:

Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific: A Discussion with Rodolfo Maggio

February 2, 2024

Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific

Rodolfo Maggio

Is Kiribati in the American lake, Indo-Pacific or Chinese Pacific? In this Episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to Rodolfo Maggio, a senior researcher at …

Sauna Culture in Japan: A Discussion with Eetu-Antti Hartikainen

November 17, 2023

Sauna Culture in Japan

Eetu-Antti Hartikainen

In 2020, Finland’s sauna culture was added to the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, …

Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea: A Discussion with Stella Zhang

September 29, 2023

Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea

Stella Zhang
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Bubble tea, also known as pearl milk tea, boba or tapioca milk tea is a popular drink in Asia. Wherever there is Asian diaspora, such as in the USA, o…

Brantly Womack, "Recentering Pacific Asia: Regional China and World Order" (Cambridge UP, 2023)

June 2, 2023

Recentering Pacific Asia

Brantly Womack
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The Pacific Rim of Asia – Pacific Asia – is now the world's largest and most cohesive economic region, and China has returned to its center. In this c…

Myanmar Jewellers in China

January 27, 2023

Myanmar Jewellers in China

Juliet Zhu

China re-opened border in a final farewell to its strict zero-COVID policy on the 8th of January, 2023. But in the first few weeks of January, the My…

David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown, "People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)

December 9, 2022

People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China

David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown

Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown…

Maria Adele Carrai and Jennifer Rudolph, "The China Questions 2: Critical Insights Into US-China Relations" (Harvard UP, 2022)

October 14, 2022

The China Questions 2

Maria Adele Carrai and Jennifer Rudolph

For decades Americans have described China as a rising power. That description no longer fits: China has already risen. What does this mean for the U.…

Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere, "Global China as Method" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

August 26, 2022

Global China as Method

Ivan Franceschini and Nicholas Loubere

Is China part of the world? Based on much of the political, media, and popular discourse in the West the answer is seemingly no. Even after four decad…

The Implications of the Ukrainian War for Taiwan’s Relations with China

August 1, 2022

The Implications of the Ukrainian War for Taiwan’s Relations with China

Sean King

Is a Chinese invasion on Taiwan a storm on the horizon when the West is busy with the Ukrainian war? Will Nancy Pelosi’s plan to visit Taiwan in Augus…

Jonathan Fulton, "Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations" (Routledge, 2021)

May 27, 2022

Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations

Jonathan Fulton

Have you ever read Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises? When asked how he went bankrupt, a character replies, “Gradually, then suddenly.” In this convers…

Why Is Eileen Gu the New Poster Child in China?

April 8, 2022

Why Is Eileen Gu the New Poster Child in China?

Jiang Chang

What is “binary nationalism” and what has it got to do with free-style skiing? The explosive popularity of Eileen Gu’s is an excellent case for unders…

The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan

February 28, 2022

The Great Exodus from China

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang

Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang is Associate Professor of East Asian History, Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA . His book The Great…

The #MeToo Movement in China and the Case of Tennis Star Peng Shuai

December 10, 2021

The #MeToo Movement in China and the Case of Tennis Star Peng Shuai

Dusica Ristivojević

Several high-profile cases of sexual harassment and assault have helped the #MeToo movement in China continue to make impacts on a society that is hig…