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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)

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)

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)

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)

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 […]

Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading edited and co-translated by Ross King (2021)

Publication title: Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading Publication year: 2021 Author: Edited and co-translated by Ross King About the book In Literary Sinitic and East Asia: A Cultural Sphere of Vernacular Reading, Professor Kin Bunkyō surveys the history of reading technologies referred to as kundoku 訓讀 in Japanese, hundok in Korean and xundu in Mandarin. Rendered by […]

Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature edited and translated by Ross King and Christina Laffin (2020)

Publication title: Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature Publication year: 2020 Author: Edited and translated by Ross King and Christina Laffin About the book In Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature, Saito Mareshi demonstrates the centrality of Literary Sinitic poetry and […]

Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality: The Inordinate Desire of the West by Sunera Thobani (2020)

Publication title: Contesting Islam, Constructing Race and Sexuality: The Inordinate Desire of the West by Sunera Thobani (2020) Publication year: 2020 Author: Sunera Thobani About the book The current political standoffs of the ‘War on Terror’ illustrate that the interaction within and between the so-called Western and Middle Eastern civilizations is constantly in flux. A recurring theme […]

Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States, contributed by Bruce Fulton and Don Baker (2020)

Publication title: Peace Corps Volunteers and the Making of Korean Studies in the United States Publication year: 2020 Author: Contributions by Bruce Fulton and Don Baker About the book From 1966 through 1981 the Peace Corps sent more than two thousand volunteers to South Korea, to teach English and provide healthcare. A small yet significant number […]