More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk (2024)

More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk (2024)

Publication title: More Swindles from the Late Ming: Sex, Scams, and Sorcery Publication year: 2024 Author: Translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk About the book A woman seduces her landlord to extort the family farm. Gamblers recruit a wily prostitute to get a rich young man back in the game. Silver counterfeiters wreak havoc for […]

Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan by Joshua S. Mostow (2024)

Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan by Joshua S. Mostow (2024)

Publication title: Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan Publication year: 2024 Author: Joshua S. Mostow About the book Hyakunin’shu: Reading the Hundred Poets in Late Edo Japan explores the “popular literary literacy” of the Japanese at the edge of modernity. By reproducing and translating a well-known annotated and illustrated Ansei-era (1854–1859) edition of the Hyakunin isshu—for hundreds […]

Migration and the Politics of Methodology co-edited by Ayaka Yoshimizu (2025)

Migration and the Politics of Methodology co-edited by Ayaka Yoshimizu (2025)

Publication title: Migration and the Politics of Methodology: Doing Fieldwork, Decentring Power, and Foregrounding Migrants’ Perspectives Publication year: 2025 Author: Co-edited by Ayaka Yoshimizu, Kirsten Emiko McAllister, and Daniel Ahadi About the book This volume examines the politics of fieldwork and the challenges of researching migrants constructed as outsiders both nationally and transnationally. Based on research […]

Chinatown, co-translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton (2025)

Chinatown, co-translated by Bruce Fulton and Ju-Chan Fulton (2025)

Publication title: Chinatown Publication year: 2025 Author: Translated by Bruce and Ju-chan Fulton About the book In this emblematic selection of her stories, Oh Jung-hee probes beneath the surface of seemingly quotidian lives to expose nightmarish family configurations warped by desertion, psychosis, and death. In ‘Chinatown’ a young girl living on the edge of the […]

Embark on a Chinese Language Odyssey: CLP’s Imagine UBC 2023 Extravaganza

Embark on a Chinese Language Odyssey: CLP’s Imagine UBC 2023 Extravaganza

Every early September, a remarkable day of discovery awaits as Imagine UBC unveils a world of connections and experiences, where new students unite, professors inspire, and countless pathways to involvement beckon at every turn.  This year, the Chinese Language Program (CLP) joined forces with other renowned  language programs within the Faculty of Arts at the […]

Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea by Christina Yi (2018)

Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea by Christina Yi (2018)

Publication title: Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea Publication year: 2018 Author: Christina Yi About the book With the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War in 1894, Japan embarked on a policy of territorial expansion that would claim Taiwan and Korea, among others. Assimilation policies led to a significant body of […]

The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk (2017)

The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk (2017)

Publication title: The Book of Swindles: Selections from a Late Ming Collection Publication year: 2017 Author: Translated by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk About the book This is an age of deception. Con men ply the roadways. Bogus alchemists pretend to turn one piece of silver into three. Devious nuns entice young women into adultery. Sorcerers […]

Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Chinese Celebrities edited by Christopher Rea (2018)

Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Chinese Celebrities edited by Christopher Rea (2018)

Publication title: Imperfect Understanding: Intimate Portraits of Chinese Celebrities Publication year: 2018 Author: Edited by Christopher Rea About the book What did it mean to be a celebrity in 1930s China? Who were Republican China’s preeminent intellectuals, writers, artists, politicians, diplomats, and businesspeople, and how were they represented in the popular press? This anthology brings together […]

Da bujing de niandai: Jindai Zhongguo xin xiaoshi [The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China] by Christopher Rea (2018)

Da bujing de niandai: Jindai Zhongguo xin xiaoshi [The Age of Irreverence: A New History of Laughter in China] by Christopher Rea (2018)

China’s Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai translated and with an introduction by Christopher Rea (2019)

China’s Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces by Xu Zhuodai translated and with an introduction by Christopher Rea (2019)

Publication title: China’s Chaplin: Comic Stories and Farces Publication year: 2019 Author:Xu Zhuodai translated and with an introduction by Christopher Rea About the book Hoaxes! Jokes! Farces and fun! China’s Chaplin introduces the imagination of Xu Zhuodai (1880–1958), a comic dynamo who made Shanghai laugh through the tumultuous decades of the pre-Mao era. Xu was […]