On December 2, scholars from across the university, as well as members of the community beyond UBC, gathered online to celebrate Dr. Jinhua Chen’s election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
First established in 1882, the Royal Society of Canada recognizes Canadian scholars, artists, and scientists, peer-elected as the best in their field.
Asian Studies Department Head, Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh, officially welcomed everyone, before keynote remarks were made by UBC’s Dean (Faculty of Arts), Dr. Gage Averill, and Asian Studies faculty members Dr. Joshua Mostow, Dr. Ross King and Dr. Christina Laffin, all of whom highlighted Jinhua’s tremendous tenacity and dedication to his work over the years.
Over 30 congratulatory videos and letters were sent by Jinhua’s colleagues, friends and mentors worldwide; these were edited into a brief video, which, along with the full individual videos and letters, can all be viewed below.
Congratulations again Jinhua, and thank you to everyone who helped organise the event or contributed a message!
Watch the edited video of congratulatory remarks here. The full recording of the event can be viewed here.
Letters of congratulations:
- Tim Barrett (SOAS University of London)
- Marcus Bingenheimer (Temple University)
- Jun Gong (Sun Yat Sen)
- Paul Groner (University of Virginia)
- Atsushi Ibuki (Toyo University)
- Rongdao Lai (McGill University)
- Venerable Jiang Miao (Wutai International Institute of Buddhism 五臺山國際研究所)
- Michael Radich (University of Heidelberg)
- Kai Sheng (Tsinghua University)
- Koichi Shinohara and Phyllis Granoff (Yale University)
- Fumihiko Sueki (University of Tokyo)
- Stephen F. Teiser (Princeton)
- Ming Chen (Peking University Center for Studies of Eastern Literatures)
Full-length congratulatory videos:
- Christoph Anderl (Ghent University)
- James Benn (McMaster University)
- Imre Galambos (University of Cambridge)
- Amanda Goodman (University of Toronto)
- Ann Heirman (Ghent University)
- Yun Ji (Buddhist College of Singapore)
- Sheng Kai (Tsinghua University)
- George Keyworth (University of Sasketchewan)
- John Kieschnick (Stanford University)
- Youn-mi Kim (Ewha Womans University)
- Jeffrey Kotyk (UBC)
- Weiyu Lin (UBC)
- James Robson (Harvard University)
- Robert Sharf (UC Berkeley)
- Sheng Yen Education Centre祝賀陳金華老師短
- Kirill Solonin (Renmin University)
- Eugene Wang (Harvard University)
- Michelle Wang (Georgetown University)
- Song Wang (Peking University)
- Albert Welter (University of Arizona)
- Dewei Zhang (Jinan University)
- Michael Zimmerman (Hamburg University)
