An Invitation to UBC UCCS 3MT 2025 Semi-finals | February 1-28, 2025
The Chinese Language Program in the Department of Asian Studies, UBC, is pleased to announce that UBC Undergraduate Conference of Chinese Studies (UCCS 3MT 2025, Semifinals) is to be held on Canvas from February 1-28, 2025. You are most cordially invited to self-enroll in the Canvas website of UBC UCCS 3MT 2025 by clicking on […]
2024 North American Chapter of the History of Emotion (NACHE) International Conference
Nearly 100 international and Canadian participants convened in a total of 20 panels (three concurrent panels plus two keynotes) over two days (June 7-8, 2024) for the first conference of the North American Chapter on the History of Emotion (NACHE) Biennial Conference to be held in Canada. The conference hosted sessions by those at the […]
Dr. Helena Wu receives Merit Award in the 2021 International Journal of Taiwan Studies Research Article Competition
Congratulations to Helena Wu, Assistant Professor of Hong Kong Studies, who received a Merit Award in the category of Social Sciences in the 2021 International Journal of Taiwan Studies Research Article Competition, for the article titled “Serving the ‘China Dream’? Taiwan as a National Object in Cross-Strait Communication” (co-authored with Dr. Simona A. Grano).
The first English translation of Bian zhongbian lun 辯中邊論 by Dr. Jeffrey Kotyk
Congratulations to Sheng Yen Education Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Buddhism, Jeffrey Kotyk, on the publication of his translation, Analysis of the Middle and Extremes!
New entry about Buddhism in Bhutan in the Database of Religious History (DRH) by Dr. Dagmar Schwerk
We are delighted to share Dr. Dagmar Schwerk’s detailed entry, “Drukpa Kagyü School (Bhutan),” in the open-access Database of Religious History (DRH) at UBC.
The first essay collection in English on The Ise Stories co-edited by Prof. Joshua Mostow and PhD student Kurtis Hanlon
Congratulations to Asian Studies Professor Joshua S. Mostow and Asian Studies PhD student, Kurtis Hanlon on the co-edited publication “An “Ise monogatari” Reader”!
Dairy: the deep historical link between China and Japan
Sheng Yen Education Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Buddhism Jeffrey Kotyk recently published an article on The China Story Blog about dairy, an important industry that was transmitted from China to Japan as early as the seventh century.
New publication: “Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949” by Dr. Christopher Rea
Congratulations to UBC Asian Studies Professor Dr. Christopher Rea on the publication of Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949 (Columbia University Press)!
New publication: “Literary Information in China: A History” co-edited by Dr. Bruce Rusk
Congratulations to Dr. Bruce Rusk on the co-edited publication Literary Information in China: A History (Chen, Jack Wei, Anatoly Detwyler, Xiao Liu, Christopher M. B. Nugent, and Bruce Rusk, eds., Columbia University Press). Dr. Rusk is an associate professor of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. His main areas of research and teaching are on cultural history of […]
Introducing the new UBC Asian Studies LinkedIn page!
Keep in touch with fellow students and alumnni as well as upcoming jobs, news, events and more!