At the 2013 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture, Gage Avrill, Dean of Arts, announced a $2,000,000 donation to sponsor the development of a Cantonese Studies program at UBC. The program will include Cantonese language courses, Cantonese literature courses and is an extraordinarily generous gift by brothers Alex and Chi Shum Watt. Professor Leo Shin, of the Department of Asian Studies, was on Omni BC Vancouver News, on October 24th, 2013, to discuss the gift.
In the News: $2 Million Dollar Gift for Cantonese Studies (Interview)
October 28, 2013
