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Graduation Photos with Artona for Asian Studies Majors

Graduation Photos with Artona for Asian Studies Majors

Attention to all Asian Studies graduating students for spring 2022! We’d like to encourage you to schedule your graduate photos with Artona before March 30, 2022.

Cantonese Speakers’ Secrets of Learning Mandarin: Two Students’ Stories

Cantonese Speakers’ Secrets of Learning Mandarin: Two Students’ Stories

Over the past years, the UBC Chinese Language Program (CLP) has been dedicated to embracing the diversity of its learners’ linguistic and cultural backgrounds. The Program strives to create a more welcoming environment for its multifaceted heritage students’ learning experience and outcomes by encirching and renovating its curricula and learning materials as well as adopting such innovative pedagogical strategies as differentiated and collaborative learning.

Finding our Seat at the Table: What Identity Means for Asian Canadians

Finding our Seat at the Table: What Identity Means for Asian Canadians

We recently got the chance to talk to Kristy Lin and Daniel Chen about their involvement with the A Seat at the Table exhibition and what it means to them.

UBC Asian Studies Class of 2021 Graduates Yearbook

UBC Asian Studies Class of 2021 Graduates Yearbook

Congratulations, UBC Asian Studies Class of 2021!

Cantonese Language Program Event Recap – UBC Cantonese Speech Contest 2021

Cantonese Language Program Event Recap – UBC Cantonese Speech Contest 2021

As a part of celebrations for the fifth anniversary of the Cantonese Language Program, the UBC Cantonese Speech Contest was held on March 24, 2021 via Zoom. The contest was open to students currently taking CNTO courses, many of whom had been learning Cantonese for just three months.

Through our eyes, with our voices: How students and faculty are creating space to heal and be proud of their Asian identities (Part I)
Chinese Language Program Event Recap – 2021 UBC Lantern Festival Poetry Event

Chinese Language Program Event Recap – 2021 UBC Lantern Festival Poetry Event

The 2021 UBC Lantern Festival Poetry Event, the fourth annual extracurricular event organized by the Chinese Language Program, is drawing to a successful conclusion on April 9, 2021. The Covid-19 challenges restricted the event to Canvas (https://canvas.ubc.ca/courses/70968), but its talented organizers, contributors, and participants have in turn extended the event from Feb 26 to April 9 despite the pandemic, […]

My Generation, My Love: A Multimedia Contest 《我的年代、我的愛情》徵 文、獨白及短片創作比賽

My Generation, My Love: A Multimedia Contest 《我的年代、我的愛情》徵 文、獨白及短片創作比賽

Simple yet profound, universal yet deeply personal, love comes in all sorts of shapes and forms. Students from both the UBC Cantonese Language Program and Chinese Language Program showed just how varied something as universal as love can be in this year’s “My Generation, My Love: A Multimedia Contest.” On February 12th, the Cantonese Language […]

One Wish, One Dish Showcase: A Lunar New Year Celebration

One Wish, One Dish Showcase: A Lunar New Year Celebration

Lunar New Year is one of the most significant holidays in many Asian societies, as it marks the end of winter and beginning of spring. This year, the holiday was celebrated on February 12th, when families usually gather to spend time together, wear red, and watch  the fireworks. The Chinese Language Program, Cantonese Language Program,  […]

Introducing the new UBC Asian Studies LinkedIn page!

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!