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.
New Publication: “Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University: Counting for Nothing?” edited by Sunera Thobani
Congratulations to Dr. Sunera Thobani who edited the newly released Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University: Counting for Nothing? (University of Toronto Press)!
In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Daniel L. Overmyer FRSC August 20th 1935 – November 24th 2021
Professor Daniel L. Overmyer FRSC, Emeritus Professor, died peacefully at home after a short battle with cancer, loving family members by his side. Professor Overmyer had a very distinguished career, teaching and publishing widely in the field of Chinese popular religion – a field he helped establish. His aim was to more fully understand traditional […]
New Publication on Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama by Dr. Ayaka Yoshimizu
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Ayaka Yoshimizu’s publication Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama (Routledge) has now been released! Doing Ethnography in the Wake of the Displacement of Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama reflects on the politics, poetics, and ethics of remembering the lives […]
New Releases in “Exploring Premodern Japan” video series
Graduate students Haley Blum, José Manuel Escalona Echániz, Saeko Suzuki, Miaoling Xue, and Asian Studies professor, Dr. Christina Laffin are excited to announce that they have released three new videos in their “Exploring Premodern Japan” series.
Happy 60th Anniversary UBC Asian Studies – Photo Challenge Event
In celebration of its 60th anniversary this year, the Department of Asian Studies at UBC invites all UBC students and alumni to participate in the Happy 60th Anniversary UBC Asian Studies Photo Challenge Event! Students and alumni will have the opportunity to visit various Asia-related locations on the UBC campus and win a prize from UBC Asian Studies Department Merchandise
To Think and to Transcend: Introducing the UBC Student Association of Sinology, a Newly Constituted UBC AMS Club
The UBC Student Society of Sinology, or UBC Student Association of Sinology (USAS) as registered at AMS, is led by a group of dedicated students who work to create a platform for research and discussion on Chinese literature as well as cultures.
A virtual speaker series: Indigenous Taiwan: Transpacific Connections
A series of conversations with writers and filmmakers who have been at the forefront of sharing Indigenous Taiwan with the world.
Yü Ying-shih’s memoir now available in English co-translated by Josephine Chiu-Duke and Michael S. Duke
Congratulations to Asian Studies Professor Josephine Chiu-Duke and Professor Emeritus Michal S. Duke on the co-translated publication “From Rural China to the Ivy League: Reminiscences of Transformations in Modern Chinese History” by Yü Ying-shih (Cambria Press, 2021).
Talks in modern Persian literature for Fall 2021
The Persian Language and Iranian Studies Initiative at UBC and the UBC Persian Literature Reading Club, and the UBC Persian Club present a series of talks analyzing the literature of migration and exile in Modern Persian Literature in fall 2021. The series is sponsored by the Department of Asian Studies. Details of each talk (individual […]