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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).
NBN Episodes hosted by Julie:
August 19, 2024
The Dragon and the Nguzunguzu
Nguzunguzu is the traditional figurehead which was formerly affixed to canoes in the Solomon Islands. In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to Rodo…
August 5, 2024
The Dragonbear in the Geopolitics of the 21st Century
What is the “dragonbear”? It is a metaphor of an emerging strategic alliance between Russia and China. In this episode, Julie Yu-Wen Chen talks to geo…
July 15, 2024
Sino-Pacific Relations
The 2024 Solomon Islands elections were surprisingly peaceful. The deepening economic inequalities, widespread corruption, rogue demagogues manipulati…
February 2, 2024
Kiribati in the Chinese Pacific
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 …
November 17, 2023
Sauna Culture in Japan
In 2020, Finland’s sauna culture was added to the List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, …
September 29, 2023
Globalisation and Glocalisation of Bubble Tea
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…
June 2, 2023
Recentering Pacific Asia
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…
January 27, 2023
Myanmar Jewellers in China
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…
December 9, 2022
People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China
Entitled People, Place, Race, and Nation in Xinjiang, China: Territories of Identity (Palgrave MacMillan, 2022), David O’Brien and Melissa Shani Brown…
October 14, 2022
The China Questions 2
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.…
August 26, 2022
Global China as Method
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…
August 1, 2022
The Implications of the Ukrainian War for Taiwan’s Relations with China
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…
May 27, 2022
Routledge Handbook on China–Middle East Relations
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…
April 8, 2022
Why Is Eileen Gu the New Poster Child in China?
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…
February 28, 2022
The Great Exodus from China
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang is Associate Professor of East Asian History, Department of History, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA . His book The Great…
December 10, 2021
The #MeToo Movement in China and the Case of Tennis Star Peng Shuai
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…