Voices of Asia is an open-access multi-volume publication initiative to foreground vernacular, indigenous, non-Anglophone knowledge and regional perspectives in work originally produced in Asian languages and intellectual traditions. It is jointly produced by the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S) and the Leiden Asia Centre (LAC).
Voices of Asia is a non-traditional academic publication. It features short perspective essays, interviews, interventions, and opinion pieces, either translated from Asian languages written by representatives of important voices—including innovators, policymakers, independent scholars, journalists, think-tank researchers, and technologists—or adapted and trans-created from those voices to capture emerging debates on key contemporary issues that are either sidelined or ignored in dominant Anglophone scholarship.
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Editors
Florian Schneider
Florian Schneider is Professor of Modern China and Academic Director of the Leiden Asia Centre. He specialises in political communication and digital media in the PRC, with his book Digital Nationalism in China (OUP, 2018) analysing online constructions of Sino-Japanese history. His broader work addresses Chinese foreign policy, governance and soft power, as well as political messaging in popular culture. He also serves as Managing Editor of Asiascape: Digital Asia.
Haiqing Yu
Prof Haiqing Yu is a Chief Investigator at the RMIT University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Haiqing is a Professor of Media and Communication and ARC Future Fellow (2021-2025) at RMIT University. She is a critical media studies scholar with expertise on Chinese digital media, communication and culture and their sociopolitical and cultural impact in China, Australia and the Asia Pacific. She is currently working on projects on China’s digital expansion and influence in Australasia, Chinese-language digital/social media in Australia, the social implications of China’s social credit system, and social studies of digital technologies in the Chinese context.