Event Category Archives: Featured Chinese

2023 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night

The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our annual Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard, so each year we bring in alumni with diverse experiences – at home and in Asia – to inform and inspire current students. This event will feature a keynote speech and round robin […]

2022/23 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: A Traveling Feast: The Story of Chop Suey and the Journey of Chinese Banquet Culture to America

The 2022/23 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with guest speaker Professor Miranda Brown (University of Michigan) Lecture: A Traveling Feast: The Story of Chop Suey and the Journey of Chinese Banquet Culture to America Chances are good that if you encountered chop suey recently, it wasn’t at a restaurant with any gourmet aspirations. Fifty […]

World-oriented Crossings: The Covert Globality of Malaysian Chinese Literature

No scholar of modern Chinese literary studies in its globalizing mode will miss the recent spotlight on Malaysian Chinese (Mahua) literature. Previously untapped, works from or about the Southeast Asian country are now read for bracing ideas on language, ethnicity, and diaspora. In Malaysian Crossings: Place and Language in the Worlding of Modern Chinese Literature, […]

Presenting a Red Chamber’s Banquet—Food and Life in Classical Chinese Novels

獻上一品紅樓宴——中國古典小說裡的飲食與生活: Presenting a Red Chamber’s Banquet—Food and Life in Classical Chinese Novels This talk will be presented in Chinese by Professor Chu Chia-wen 朱嘉雯 National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Details: Monday, November 13th, 4-6pm Room 604, Asian Centre (map here) The event is free and open to the public. Registration is not required. Please note that […]

2024 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night

– Registration is now closed – The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our annual Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard, so each year we bring in reputable guests and alumni with diverse experiences – at home and in Asia – to inform and inspire current students. This […]

Special Halloween screening (& screaming!): CAVE OF THE SILKEN WEB 盤絲洞 (1927)

Join us for a special Halloween screening (and screaming!) of the long-lost Chinese spider-women film: CAVE OF THE SILKEN WEB 盤絲洞 (1927)! Translated by Christopher Rea, music by Donald Sosin. Date & Time: Thursday, October 31 at 12pm Location: Auditorium, UBC Asian Centre Format: 60-min film screening, followed by 30-min discussion This event is free and open to […]