2019/20 Lecturers of the Year Announced
Asian Studies is delighted to announce Li-jung Lee and Gurinder Mann as our 2019/20 Lecturers of the Year.
Jinhua Chen Announced as an RSC Fellow for 2020!
Congratulations to Professor Jinhua Chen, who has just been announced as a Royal Society of Canada (RSC) Fellow for the incoming academic year!
UBC prof translates earliest surviving live-action Mulan film
Mulan, a live-action rendition of the Disney animated classic, premiered on Sept 4th. This highly anticipated film retells the legend of Chinese heroine Hua Mulan, a story that has been appearing on the silver screen for almost a hundred years. Professor Christopher Rea, who recently translated the earliest surviving Mulan film, Hua Mu Lan (1939), talks about why Mulan remains a powerful cultural icon.
Asian Studies Spotlight on Sheng Yen Education Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Buddhism – Jeffrey Kotyk
Jeffrey Kotyk is the current Sheng Yen Education Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Buddhism. He shares with us his lifelong love of learning (beginning with watching Chinese films and TV shows as a child growing up in Winnipeg), and the range of global locations his studies have taken him, including two years as a Buddhist monk!
Transitioning Asian Studies to online for Winter 2020…no easy task!
September 2020 marks the first time ever that UBC Asian Studies (along with most other UBC departments) has offered all classes in online form. Although many courses already included some sort of online component, it was no small task to move everything entirely online, so we were extremely lucky to have a team of grad students, led by Kurtis Hanlon and Shota Iwasaki, on-hand to manage the overwhelming flow of information.
Teaching Assistantships Now Open – Winter 2020
We’ve just opened applications for Winter 2020 Teaching Assistantship positions in our department – closing date to submit them is June 30!
Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight – Daryl Louie
Interested in what you can do with a degree in Asian Studies? In our Alumni Spotlight Interview Series, we ask our alumni about their career paths, how they became interested in Asian Studies and for any advice they would give to current students. This interview features Daryl Louie (BA 2010) who found that majoring in […]
Practice Your New Language Skills with UBC Tandem!
Learning a new language comes with many small “joys”. The first time you can read a full line of text and understand it. The first time you order a meal or a train ticket. And the first time you realise you can fully hold a conversation with a native speaker! “Everyone brings a lot of […]
Statement on Academic Freedom
In light of the recent developments in Hong Kong, as well as the on-going challenges in addressing the past and present elsewhere in Asia, the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia is reaffirming its support of UBC’s commitment to advancing academic freedom.
Update about Courses for Term One in the 2020W Session
On May 11, President Santa J. Ono announced that the majority of UBC classes in Term 1 of the 2020W academic session (September to December 2020) will be offered online. In line with this, and for everyone’s health and safety, all Asian Studies courses (undergraduate and graduate) will be offered online in Term 1.