Discovering Premodern Japan through Video
[youtube]https://youtu.be/6d6OY6iMp7g[/youtube] How did script and books arrive in Japan from the continent? Why does classical Japanese theatre often include scenes of travel? How was the body represented in Buddhist religious texts circulated in Japan? These are some of the questions being answered in visual ways by a team of researchers in Asian studies. Five scholars […]
Appointment of Sharalyn Orbaugh as Head, 2020-2023
UBC Asian Studies Department is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh as the next Head of the Department. She will take up the role from July 1, 2020 through June 30, 2023.
Asian Studies Senior Lecturer Qian Wang wins Killam Teaching Prize!
Qian Wang, Senior Lecturer in Chinese Applied Linguistics and Director of our Chinese Language Program has been awarded a 2019-20 Killam Teaching Prize.
Free to watch now: Chinese Film Classics (with English subtitles)
Professor Chris Rea, assisted by PhD students Liu Yuqing and Yao Jiaqi, has been researching and translating a number of classic Chinese films, which are now available for free on YouTube, as part of an ongoing project to make early Chinese cinema history more accessible.
UBC Japanese Faculty invited to Emperor’s Birthday Celebration
On January 29, 2020, a number of our Japanese faculty attended the Fairmount Hotel for a celebration of the Emperor’s birthday, also attended by UBC President Santo Ono and Dean Gage Averill. Held by the Consulate-General of Japan in Vancouver, it was particularly significant because it was the first birthday celebration of the emperor of […]
Josephine Chiu-Duke promoted to Full Professor
We congratulate Dr. Josephine Chiu-Duke in our Chinese faculty on her recent promotion! Specialising in traditional Chinese social, intellectual and cultural history, as well as twentieth-century Chinese fiction.
Punjabi-Canadian family of Onkarbir Singh Toor honours his memory through new enhancement fund
Learning about Punjabi language and culture through UBC’s Punjabi Oral History class made a lasting impression on former science student, Onkarbir Singh Toor (BSc’16).
Asian Studies Alumnus Leo-Thomas Brylowski awarded Korea Times Grand Prize for translation
Leo-Thomas Brylowski, who studied Korean with Dr. Bruce Fulton during his undergraduate years at UBC, has been awarded the Korea Times Grand Prize in its 50th Modern Korean Literature Translation Awards.
Asian Studies Student Published in University of Toronto’s Snergy Journal
Aaron Throness, a fourth-year Asian Studies undergrad student, recently had his essay published in Snergy: The Journal of Contemporary Asian Studies hosted by the University of Toronto. Titled Isolation, Neglect, and Decay: A Study of the Ming Dynasty’s Coastal Consciousness, he investigates the precipitous decline of the Ming Dynasty’s coastal fortifications and its withdrawal from maritime affairs. Click […]
Sunera Thobani Honoured at ”Women Who Named the Unnamed: Pakistan’s and Local Women Heroes”
Professor Sunera Thobani was recently honoured as one of 15 exceptional women at the ”Women Who Named the Unnamed: Pakistan’s and Local Women Heroes” event, held at Surrey City Hall on Saturday, September 28