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Students

Practice Makes Perfect: Introducing the CLP In-Person Oral Practice Project

November 15, 2024
Featured Courses, Students

Explore the Timeless Wonders of Chinese Literature: CHIN 450+ Course Offerings in 2024-25 Winter Term 2

November 15, 2024
Featured Courses, Students

5 Asian Studies courses to take in 2024 Winter Term 2

November 12, 2024
Faculty

Mostafa Abedinifard Delivers Keynote at Wits Centre for Diversity Studies Conference in Johannesburg, South Africa

October 30, 2024
Announcements, Faculty

Long-lost Chinese spider women film Cave of the Silken Web (1927) to screen on Halloween

October 30, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Meet the 2023/2024 Lecturers of the Year

October 23, 2024
Event Highlights

Recap: Cantonese and Learner Corpora Workshop

October 23, 2024
Opportunities, Students

2024 Japanese Language Program Writing Contest さくぶんコンテスト

October 21, 2024
Opportunities

Call for Papers: UBC Undergraduate Conference of Chinese Studies (UCCS) 3-Minute Thesis Competition 2025

October 21, 2024
Achievements, Students

From Classroom Assignment to Published Legacy: A Grandmother’s Bilingual Storybook Journey

October 21, 2024
Faculty, Spotlight

Instructor Spotlight: Meet the New and Dynamic Visiting Lecturers of the Chinese Language Program

October 9, 2024
Event Highlights, Faculty

BC Japanese Language Teachers Information Exchange Meeting

September 23, 2024
Event Highlights, Students

A Day to Dream Big: Imagine Your UBC Journey with the CLP

September 23, 2024
Faculty, Spotlight

Pasang Yangjee Sherpa speaks at Stockholm World Water Week

September 4, 2024
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies New Faculty Spotlight - Hiromi Aoki

August 26, 2024
Event Highlights

Building a toolbox of technical and soft skills: Cantonese Teaching Workshops Recap

August 7, 2024
Sustainability News

Wildfires in Jasper: UBC addresses various initiatives

August 7, 2024
Event Highlights, Students

Learning Cantonese Language and Culture: Class Visits by Guests and Professionals

August 7, 2024
Featured Courses, Students

9 Asian Studies courses to take in 2024 Winter Term 1

July 18, 2024
Announcements, Students

Sokhan at UBC: A New Podcast Platform for Iranian and Persianate Studies

June 28, 2024
Faculty, Staff, Sustainability News

New Approach to Furniture Procurement and Disposal

June 28, 2024
Featured Courses, Students

New 2024 courses offered in the Department of Asian Studies

June 21, 2024
Event Highlights, Research

2024 North American Chapter of the History of Emotion (NACHE) International Conference

June 21, 2024
Opportunities, Spotlight, Sustainability News

Go by Bike Week Happening Now and Discounted Bike Share Resources

June 3, 2024
Announcements

Asian Studies Scholars for Palestine: Statement of Solidarity with the People’s University for Gaza Encampment

May 29, 2024
Announcements, Spotlight, Students

UBC Asian Studies Class of 2024 Graduates Yearbook

May 8, 2024
Event Highlights, Students

Looking Back on Another Year of Celebrating Korean Culture at UBC: UBC Korean Language and Culture Program Year Overview

May 7, 2024
Event Highlights, Students

Voices of Appreciation: Celebrating Excellence at the 2024 Chinese Language Program’s Annual Student Employee Appreciation Event

April 9, 2024
Event Highlights

The 36th Annual BC Japanese Speech Contest Recap

March 18, 2024
Featured Courses

Discover New Horizons in Chinese Literature: Exciting New Courses Offered in 2024 Summer Terms

March 18, 2024
Event Highlights

Embracing Multilingualism: Highlights from UBC’s Arts Multilingual Week 2024

March 18, 2024
Event Highlights

Celebrating Diversity and Heritage: Highlights from the 2024 Lunar New Year Festivities

March 4, 2024
Achievements, Faculty

Dr. Hessam Dehghani receives Dean of Arts Educational Leadership and Innovation Award

February 13, 2024
Achievements, Students

Creating Narratives Through Language: 2023/24 Japanese Writing Contest

February 12, 2024
Event Highlights, Students

Building Cultural Connections Through Performing Arts: The Fourth Annual Cantonese Fun Night

February 8, 2024
Spotlight, Students

Bridging Worlds Through Language and Culture: Student Spotlight on Two Exceptional Students from the Chinese Language Program

January 31, 2024
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Christopher Rea receives Literature Translation Fellowship from National Endowment for the Arts in the U.S.

January 24, 2024
Event Highlights

Looking into Chinese Canadian History through the lens of the Cantonese Language

January 22, 2024
Event Highlights

The UBC Cantonese Language Program Meet and Greet with Hong Kong Band, The Hertz

January 12, 2024
Spotlight, Students

Crafting New Chapters: The Creative Fusion of DIY eBooks in CLP Lecturer's Summer Program

December 5, 2023
Event Highlights, Students

An Evening of K-Pop Dancing, Games, Food, and Fun: The Third Annual K-Pop Dance Event

November 30, 2023
Announcements, Spotlight, Students

UBC Asian Studies Class of 2023 Fall Graduates Yearbook

November 20, 2023
Event Highlights, Students

Exchanging Expertise: Recap of Cantonese Teaching Workshops

November 15, 2023
Event Highlights, Students

Celestial Celebrations and Enlightened Learning: A Rewind of the 2023 Millennium Mid-Autumn Poetry Festival & Game Night Celebration

November 6, 2023
Faculty, Spotlight

Unlocking Chinese Marvels: Insights, Inspiration, and the Heartbeat of Language with Our Visiting Lecturers

October 23, 2023
Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Sunera Thobani named a Distinguished University Scholar

October 20, 2023
Publications

Pejvak Journal of Persianate Studies recently launched by UBC Persian Club

October 10, 2023
Faculty, In The Media

Professor Ross King speaks on the significance of Hangeul Day

October 10, 2023
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Meet the 2022/2023 Lecturers of the Year

October 10, 2023
Opportunities, Students

2023 Japanese Language Program Writing Contest – さくぶんコンテスト

October 6, 2023
Announcements, Faculty, Publications

New Publication of Hindi and Urdu Poetry by Gurinder Mann

September 25, 2023
Students

Embark on a Chinese Language Odyssey: CLP's Imagine UBC 2023 Extravaganza

September 25, 2023
Opportunities

Call for submissions: 2023 Millennium Mid-Autumn Poetry Festival

September 13, 2023
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

Welcome the New Asian Studies Faculty for 2023/24!

September 12, 2023
Faculty

Empowering Language Learners: a feature on the work of our very own Dr. Nesrine Basheer

September 8, 2023
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies New Faculty Spotlight - Ji-yoon An

September 8, 2023
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies New Faculty Spotlight – Xiaoqiao Xu

September 8, 2023
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies New Faculty Spotlight – Li Yang

September 8, 2023
Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Christopher Rea discusses bias in research in a recently released podcast

September 8, 2023
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies New Faculty Spotlight – Alexandra Hoffmann

September 7, 2023
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies New Faculty Spotlight – Yuqing Liu

September 7, 2023
Event Highlights

The Dragon's Story: A Celebration of Legendary Bruce Lee with Stephen Au

August 17, 2023
Featured Courses, Spotlight, Staff, Students

Learn about Afghan History, a Q&A with Dr. Naveena Naqvi

August 17, 2023
Achievements, Event Highlights, Students

The 2023 Quiz on Korea: Canada preliminary round

July 7, 2023
Event Highlights

Cantonese popular culture and performance workshop featuring Anson Kong of Hong Kong ViuTV

June 19, 2023
Announcements, Students

JAPN students excel in the 34th Canadian National Japanese Speech Contest

June 19, 2023
Event Highlights

Recap: BC Japanese Language Teachers Information Exchange Meeting

June 19, 2023
Research

New books by Asian Studies faculty to enrich your 2023 reading list

June 19, 2023
Event Highlights

Learning from and with the local Cantonese community: Outreach events with Hong Kong House

June 16, 2023
Students

Building language skills and navigating exchange: Insights for students heading to South Korea 

June 15, 2023

In Memoriam: Chi Shum Watt (1938–2023)

June 9, 2023
Featured Courses

New 2023 courses offered in the Department of Asian Studies

June 7, 2023
Event Highlights, Students

Roaming freely among the Arts: Highlights from the UBC Undergraduate Conference of Chinese Studies 3MT 2023

June 5, 2023
Announcements, In The Media, Spotlight, Students

UBC Asian Studies Class of 2023 Graduates Yearbook

June 2, 2023
Event Highlights, Students

Accelerating your career growth: Key takeaways from CLP’s 2023 TAWL Professional Development Workshops

May 25, 2023
Event Highlights, Students

Unveiling the Unsung Heroes: Recognizing the Outstanding Contributions of 2022/23 CLP Student Employees

April 24, 2023
Event Highlights, Students

2023 Career Night by the Korean Language and Culture Program: Explore your Dreams of Studying, Working, and Living in South Korea!

April 12, 2023
Event Highlights

2023 35th Annual BC Japanese Speech Contest

April 11, 2023
Alumni, Event Highlights, Students

Navigating your Career Journey: 2023 Annual Asian Studies Careers Night

April 5, 2023
Event Highlights, Students

Gamify Your Language Learning: A Rewind of 2023 Chinese Game Night

March 22, 2023
Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Christopher Rea receives UBC Killam Research Prize

March 22, 2023
Announcements

Summer 2023 language courses in Nepali, Tibetan and Sanskrit now open to non-UBC students

March 9, 2023
Students

Creative expression and language nuances in writing: 2022 Japanese Language Program Writing Contest

February 28, 2023
Event Highlights, Students

Hop into the Lunar Year of the Rabbit: Going Green with the Chinese Language Program!

February 15, 2023
In The Media

Professor Ross King discusses his founding of Korean Language Village

February 2, 2023
Achievements, Students

Versatile Learning with Classical Poetry: Chinese Language Program Students Winning 2022 Chia-ying Yeh & Minsheng Scholarship

January 30, 2023
Event Highlights

Conference Review: How is China Governed? From Ming Statecraft to Xi’s New Era

January 25, 2023
Event Highlights, Students

Passion for Cantonese popular culture: The Third Annual Cantonese Fun Night

January 24, 2023
Announcements

Cross-University Cultural Exchange on Japanese Studies: Professor Christina Laffin’s visit to Vietnam National University

January 17, 2023
Event Highlights, Students

Tunes to celebrate: 2022 BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Singing Contest shines light on the new year

January 17, 2023
Students

Lunar Year of the Rabbit: Going Green for 2023

January 10, 2023
Event Highlights, Students

Engaging students in Korean pop culture: The 2nd Annual K-pop Dance Event

December 21, 2022
Event Highlights, Students

Maximize Your Language Learning: Debut of UBC Arts Multilingual Week 2022

December 2, 2022
Announcements, In The Media, Spotlight, Students

UBC Asian Studies Class of Fall 2022 Graduates Yearbook

November 22, 2022
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Helena Wu named as new Canada Research Chair in Hong Kong Studies

November 19, 2022
Event Highlights, Students

Help your professor help you succeed: CLP’s professional development workshop on how to request a reference letter

November 18, 2022
Spotlight, Students

Add major impact on your university degree with a Chinese minor

November 9, 2022
Achievements, Faculty

Meet the 2021/2022 Lecturers of the Year

November 3, 2022
Event Highlights

Beyond Your Limit: CLP’s Holistic Training Approaches to the Success of TAWLs

October 25, 2022
Research, Spotlight, Students

Ph.D. Student Tanzoom Ahmed selected as a Public Scholar by UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

October 19, 2022
Research, Spotlight, Students

Ph.D. Student Parboti Roy selected as a Public Scholar by UBC Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies

October 19, 2022
Event Highlights

Gather ‘Round the Mooncake: CLP’s Special Mid-Autumn Reunion

October 12, 2022
Achievements, Faculty

Dr. Fuyubi Nakamura awarded the 2022 Michael M. Ames Prize for her Museum of Anthropology project

October 7, 2022
Achievements

Learning a foreign language with a little help from the local community

October 5, 2022
Students

2022 Japanese Language Program Writing Contest - さくぶんコンテスト

October 4, 2022
Announcements, Faculty

In Memoriam: Dr. Thomas Hunter, former Lecturer in Sanskrit and South-Southeast Asian Studies

September 28, 2022
Announcements, Faculty

Research project led by Dr. Aynur Kadir awarded funding through the BC Knowledge Development Fund

September 22, 2022
Event Highlights

Recap: Webinar on Chinese Language Technology for Research and Education

September 14, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Meet the new faculty members in Asian Studies

September 14, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies New Faculty Spotlight – Janet Um

September 14, 2022
Event Highlights, Students

Japanese Language Program welcomes Kyoai Gakuen University students with cultural exchange event

September 14, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Chinese Language Program Instructor Spotlight: Yi-yi Chen - “Flying Students’ Dreams on Top of Literature”

September 14, 2022
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies New Faculty Spotlight – Nesrine Basheer

September 2, 2022
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Research

What historians can learn from the 1980 Kwangju Uprising: A Q&A with Dr. Donald Baker

August 17, 2022
Announcements, Opportunities, Students

We Are Hiring! 2022/23 Winter Asian Studies Work Learn Positions

August 3, 2022
Achievements, Announcements, Graduate, Students

Asian Studies Ph.D. candidate Minoru Takano awarded a Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation

July 12, 2022
Announcements

4 New courses on Modern Arabic language and culture offered in 2022/23 Winter Session

June 28, 2022
Event Highlights

First scholar visit from Hong Kong since the start of the pandemic

June 6, 2022
Event Highlights, In The Media

Cantonese Language Program promotes Hong Kong culture at inaugural Vancouver Hong Kong Fair

June 6, 2022
Event Highlights, In The Media

Cantonese Language Program hosts world premiere of the Cantonese version of Annie Cheung’s Self-Revelatory performance “DOTS”

June 6, 2022
Announcements, Faculty, In The Media

New Japanese Cinema video releases in Open Education Resource series

June 6, 2022
Announcements, In The Media, Spotlight, Students

UBC Asian Studies Class of 2022 Graduates Yearbook

June 2, 2022
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, Research

“Exploring Premodern Japan” new video releases

May 30, 2022

What is special about a university language course?

May 26, 2022
Sustainability News

Warning: Climate Change Is Increasing the Likelihood of Another Pandemic

May 10, 2022
Event Highlights, Students

Lanterns Lighted, Poetry Revived: Recap of the 2022 Chinese Language Program Lantern Festival Poetry Event

May 9, 2022
Achievements, Event Highlights, Students

Boundaries Transcended: Recap of the 2022 Undergraduate Conference of Chinese Studies 3MT Competition

May 9, 2022
Sustainability News

Asian Studies Eco-Challenge

April 26, 2022

Event Recap - 2021/22 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture

April 20, 2022
Event Highlights, Students

Culminating Collaboration and Sustained Growth – The 2022 Chinese Language Program Student Employee Appreciation Event

April 20, 2022
Achievements, Students

KORN students thrive in the 16th Annual Toronto Korean Speech Contest

April 19, 2022
Event Highlights

Event Recap: UBC’s 12th annual Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program

April 19, 2022
In The Media, Research

UBC Library acquires Afghan primary source databases

April 14, 2022
Spotlight, Students

Meet Our Students: Anh Luu

April 13, 2022
Sustainability News

Freightened: The Real Price of Shipping (2016)

April 13, 2022

UBC Professor grows online community with modern Persian literature

April 12, 2022
Students, Sustainability News

More “inter-being” less “instant gratification”: Integrating climate crisis content into an introductory class about Tibetan Buddhism at UBC

April 12, 2022
Announcements, Faculty, Publications

New Publication on choosing a research project that matters to you (and the world) by Dr. Christopher Rea

April 1, 2022
Achievements, Students

JAPN students shine in the 33rd Annual Canadian National Japanese Language Speech Contest

March 29, 2022
Alumni, Event Highlights, Students

Event Recap – 2022 Asian Studies annual Careers Night (March 17)

March 28, 2022
Students

A Guide to Majoring and Minoring in Asian Studies

March 23, 2022
Sustainability News

How to Check Out E-Books from the Vancouver Public Library

March 22, 2022
Alumni, Spotlight

Chinese Language Program Alumni Spotlight: Liam Bates’s Roadmap to Success via Cultural Curiosity

March 21, 2022
Event Highlights, Students

The 34th Annual BC Japanese Speech Contest Recap

March 18, 2022
Event Highlights, Students

More Than One Way to Be a Tiger: Experiencing the 2022 Lunar New Year with “Tiger Power”

February 25, 2022
Sustainability News

The week of February 14 is Climate Emergency Week

February 17, 2022
Sustainability News

The Asian Studies main office is closed on Fridays in support of our new Green Day initiative

February 11, 2022
In The Media

Can You Hear the Voices of the Girls? "One Left" and the Korean “Comfort Women”

February 10, 2022
Announcements

Graduation Photos with Artona for Asian Studies Majors

February 10, 2022
Announcements, Faculty

The Modern Chinese Novel: Free course on YouTube

February 8, 2022
Achievements, Faculty

Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard joins the Editorial and Advisory Boards of two humanities journals

February 3, 2022
Event Highlights, Students

Appreciating Poetry with the Community: Two Community Outreach Events through Classical Chinese Poetry

January 31, 2022
Announcements

Talks in modern Persian literature for Winter 2022

January 28, 2022
Faculty, Research

Open Education Resource Video Series on Japanese Cinema

January 27, 2022
In The Media

"New Online Teaching Resources for Early Chinese Cinema" (Education About Asia, a publication of the Association for Asian Studies)

January 27, 2022
In The Media

"Love and Duty: Translating Films and Teaching Online Through a Pandemic" (Global Storytelling)

January 27, 2022
Alumni, Publications, Research

New Publication on reading practices and the scholarly culture of late Imperial China by recent Asian Studies alumnus Yinzong Wei

January 17, 2022
Achievements, Students

Poetic Empathy Across Time: 2021 Chia-ying Yeh & Minsheng Scholarship Winner Liu Xinyuan

January 17, 2022
Event Highlights, Students

Cross-University Community Building via Singing: A Recap of the 2021 BC Chinese Bridge Mandarin Singing Contest

January 17, 2022
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Rumee Ahmed Named as New Canada Research Chair

January 13, 2022
Announcements

Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian & Persianate Studies Announced for Winter and Spring 2022

January 12, 2022
Achievements, Announcements, Graduate, Research, Students

Asian Studies Ph.D. student Minoru Takano Accepted by the 2021 China Studies Program Online Joint Research Ph.D. Fellowship

January 10, 2022
Achievements, Event Highlights

Event Recap – Asian Studies 60th Anniversary Celebration (December 6)

December 13, 2021
Announcements, Students

Cantonese Speakers’ Secrets of Learning Mandarin: Two Students’ Stories

December 10, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Publications

New Publication: "Coloniality and Racial (In)Justice in the University: Counting for Nothing?" edited by Sunera Thobani

December 10, 2021
Event Highlights, Students

An Edutaining Night for Mandarin Learners: Recapping the “2021 Online Game Night” at the Chinese Language Program

December 10, 2021
Achievements, Faculty, Research

Dr. Helena Wu receives Merit Award in the 2021 International Journal of Taiwan Studies Research Article Competition

December 9, 2021
Announcements, Faculty

In Memoriam: Professor Emeritus Daniel L. Overmyer FRSC August 20th 1935 – November 24th 2021

December 6, 2021
Event Highlights, Students

A Panel to Their Heart: Promoting Mental Wellness among Heritage Mandarin Learners

November 23, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Publications

New Publication on Transnational Sex Workers in Yokohama by Dr. Ayaka Yoshimizu

November 23, 2021
Faculty, Spotlight

Interview with Professor Emeritus Matsuo Soga

November 22, 2021
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Graduate, Research

New Releases in “Exploring Premodern Japan” video series

November 18, 2021
Announcements, Event Highlights, Students

Happy 60th Anniversary UBC Asian Studies - Photo Challenge Event

November 16, 2021
Event Highlights

A Creative and Interactive Mid-Autumn Celebration: Recapping the “2021 Virtual Mooncake Maker with Your Own Works” Event

November 9, 2021
Announcements, Students

To Think and to Transcend: Introducing the UBC Student Association of Sinology, a Newly Constituted UBC AMS Club

November 9, 2021
In The Media

#AsiaNow Speaks with Christopher Rea about Early Chinese Cinema

November 9, 2021
Graduate, Students

Asian Studies PhD Student Haoyue Li Receives Award at the American Oriental Society Western Branch 2021 Conference

November 2, 2021
Featured Courses

Templating Chinese Literature: The TLEF Template Project for Chinese Literature Courses at the Chinese Language Program

October 19, 2021
Event Highlights, Students

Cultivating Dedication in the Chinese Language Program: The 2021 Volunteer and TAWL Training Workshop Recap

October 19, 2021
Announcements

A virtual speaker series: Indigenous Taiwan: Transpacific Connections

October 8, 2021
Featured Courses, Students

Bridging Gaps: Promoting Differentiated Instruction for Both Heritage and Non-Heritage Mandarin Learners in CHIN244/338

October 4, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Publications

Yü Ying-shih's memoir now available in English co-translated by Josephine Chiu-Duke and Michael S. Duke

September 28, 2021
Sustainability News

September 20-26 is Science Literacy Week!

September 23, 2021
Sustainability News

Department of Asian Studies Climate Emergency Declaration

September 23, 2021
In The Media

Prof. Josephine Chiu-Duke explains how official Confucianism diverges from classical Confucianism-and why this matters in China

September 22, 2021
Announcements

Talks in modern Persian literature for Fall 2021

September 21, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Publications

New publication: “Persian Literature as World Literature” co-edited by Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard

September 21, 2021
Achievements, Graduate

MA student Bianca Chui selected as the winner of Princess Takamado Essay Contest

September 20, 2021
Faculty

Caring On: Meet our new and seasoned instructors and learn how they approach student-centered learning

September 20, 2021
Event Highlights

Event Recap: UBC Heritage Language Teaching Workshop

September 20, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

Welcome New Asian Studies Faculty for 2021/22!

September 8, 2021

Individualized Learning within a Supportive Community: Introducing Beginners Heritage Chinese Courses at UBC's Chinese Language Program

September 8, 2021
Announcements

Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian & Persianate Studies Announced for Fall 2021

September 7, 2021
Featured Courses

Persian 401 Contemporary Iranian Cinema for Advanced Speakers of Persian

September 1, 2021
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies New Faculty Spotlight – Yasuko Matsumoto

September 1, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies New Faculty Spotlight – Helena Wu

September 1, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies New Faculty Spotlight – Fuyubi Nakamura

September 1, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

The first English translation of Bian zhongbian lun 辯中邊論 by Dr. Jeffrey Kotyk

August 24, 2021
Faculty, In The Media, Publications

Book launch for the Malayalam translation of "Monsoon Islam: Trade & Faith on the Medieval Malabar Coast"

August 17, 2021
Faculty, Research

New article published in the “International Journal of Middle East Studies” by Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard

August 11, 2021
Announcements

Cross-National Conversations: Enhancing Chinese Heritage Language Learning through International Collaboration

August 9, 2021
Event Highlights

W2020/21 Lecture Series Recap - Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

August 6, 2021
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet Our Students – Jiaqi Yao

August 4, 2021
Opportunities, Students

We Are Hiring: 2021 Winter Asian Studies Work Learn Positions

August 3, 2021
Featured Courses

PERS 104 Persian Reading and Writing for Persian-Speaking Students

July 23, 2021
Featured Courses

PERS 100 Basic Persian I

July 23, 2021
Faculty, Research

New entry about Buddhism in Bhutan in the Database of Religious History (DRH) by Dr. Dagmar Schwerk

July 21, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

New Asian Studies Publications in the Faculty of Arts' Summer Reads Book List

July 21, 2021

Get to Know UBC Persian Language Program in 4 minutes

July 20, 2021
Sustainability News

Calling for climate action

July 15, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies New Faculty Spotlight – Sebastian Prange

July 12, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research, Students

The first essay collection in English on The Ise Stories co-edited by Prof. Joshua Mostow and PhD student Kurtis Hanlon

July 12, 2021
Students

Heritage Incubator: Fostering Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through CHIN243

July 9, 2021
In The Media

Dairy: the deep historical link between China and Japan

July 5, 2021
Sustainability News

Choose Zero Waste

June 17, 2021
Students

Finding our Seat at the Table: What Identity Means for Asian Canadians

June 14, 2021
Students

Forming a Global Family with Mandarin: 2021 BC Chinese Bridge Mandarin Speech Contest

June 11, 2021
Featured Courses, Students

Brand New ASIA Courses for Winter 2021/22 | UBC Asian Studies

June 11, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Research

MEHumor: Support Students, Spread Humor & Erase Stereotypes

June 7, 2021
Faculty, Staff

Making higher education more accessible: Six tips from Arts faculty and staff

June 4, 2021
Announcements, Graduate, In The Media, Spotlight, Students

UBC Asian Studies Class of 2021 Graduates Yearbook

June 2, 2021
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight – Yue Wang

June 2, 2021
Sustainability News

Take Action! Inter-unit Action Meeting

May 20, 2021
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Sunera Thobani Announced as Recipient of the Dean of Arts Award for 2020/21

May 19, 2021
Achievements, Faculty, Publications, Research

New publication: "Chinese Film Classics, 1922–1949" by Dr. Christopher Rea

May 13, 2021
Event Highlights, Students

Cantonese Language Program Event Recap – UBC Cantonese Speech Contest 2021

May 7, 2021
Event Highlights, Students

Chinese Language Program Event Recap – A Bittersweet Night: 2021 Year-End Online Appreciation Event

May 5, 2021
In The Media

Through our eyes, with our voices: How students and faculty are creating space to heal and be proud of their Asian identities (Part I)

May 4, 2021
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Leo Shin and Dr. Colleen Laird Awarded Public Humanities Faculty Fellowships

April 29, 2021
Achievements, Faculty

Asian Studies Lecturer Ihhwa Kim awarded UBC Killam Teaching Prize

April 23, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Publications

New publication: "Literary Information in China: A History" co-edited by Dr. Bruce Rusk

April 22, 2021
Announcements

Asian Studies Statement on the Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Event

April 16, 2021
Event Highlights, Students

Chinese Language Program Event Recap - 2021 UBC Lantern Festival Poetry Event

April 8, 2021
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Dr. Qian Wang and Dr. Hsiang-ning Sunnie Wang Receive Dean’s Award for Educational Leadership

April 6, 2021
Announcements, Featured Courses, Students

KORN 302 student Won the Grand Prize at the 15th annual Toronto Korean Speech Contest

April 6, 2021
Announcements, Students

Applications are open for 2021 Online Korean Speech Contest in Western Canada

April 6, 2021
Spotlight, Students

Meet Our Students – Sai Diwan

April 6, 2021
Sustainability News

Earth Month is Coming!

March 25, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, In The Media, Students

Asian Studies scholars presented at 2021 Association for Asian Studies Conference

March 23, 2021
Event Highlights, Students

Chinese Language Program Event Recap - Learning from Laughter: Happiness and Curiosity Keeps You Exploring

March 23, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, In The Media, Students

Fourth Video Out in Interviews with Scholars of Japanese Horror

March 22, 2021
Event Highlights, Students

Event Recap - 2021 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night (March 12)

March 19, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, In The Media, Students

Third Installment in Interviews with Scholars of Japanese Horror

March 19, 2021
Announcements, Opportunities, Students

Essay Competition for Punjabi language students

March 15, 2021
Students

My Generation, My Love: A Multimedia Contest 《我的年代、我的愛情》徵 文、獨白及短片創作比賽

March 8, 2021
Faculty, Publications, Research

A Timely Message from the Cave

March 8, 2021
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies Faculty Spotlight - Anusha Sudindra Rao

February 24, 2021

One Wish, One Dish Showcase: A Lunar New Year Celebration

February 24, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, In The Media, Students

Second Video Published now! Interviews with Scholars of Japanese Horror

February 15, 2021
Alumni, Announcements, Research, Staff, Students

Introducing the new UBC Asian Studies LinkedIn page!

February 10, 2021
Sustainability News

A Year of Sustainability

February 10, 2021
Achievements, Announcements, Students

Learning to Question: Chia-ying Yeh and Minsheng Scholarship Winner  Yuxin Guo 

February 8, 2021
Announcements, Opportunities, Students

Registrations are open for the 33rd Annual British Columbia Japanese Speech Contest (2021)!

January 27, 2021
Event Highlights, Faculty

Community-Engaged Learning and Teaching: Instructors Uniting and Learning How To Build Communities Through Teaching!

January 27, 2021
Event Highlights, Staff, Students

Behind the Success of the Chinese Language Program: 2021 Volunteer Training Workshop Recap

January 27, 2021
Announcements, Faculty, Research

New Series: Interviews with Scholars of Japanese Horror

January 20, 2021
Faculty, Students

The Chinese Language Program New Series: "Our Online Life"

January 15, 2021
Event Highlights, Research, Students

Undergraduate Conference of Chinese Studies 2020

January 15, 2021
Event Highlights, Students

"The Voices of Our Community" CLP Singing Contest 2020

January 15, 2021
Sustainability News

Greetings from the Asian Studies Sustainability Committee members!

January 14, 2021
Faculty, Spotlight

Faculty Spotlight with Hessam Dehghani and Zhaokun Xin

January 13, 2021
Faculty, Research, Students

Alireza Ahmadian Lecture Dates Announced for Term 2, 2021!

December 20, 2020
Alumni, Graduate, Research, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight - Meng Zhang

December 6, 2020

Update about Courses for Term Two in the 2020W Session

November 30, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Jinhua Chen Inducted into Royal Society of Canada

November 29, 2020

Congratulations to our Fall 2020 Graduates!

November 26, 2020

Chinese Fun Night 2020: The CLP Plays Among Us!

November 22, 2020

Bridging Life and Language: Mandarin Speech Contestant Spotlight: Laura Lee

November 22, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Graduate, Publications, Research

Congratulations to Kyoko Kobayashi Hillman on her Ph.D!

November 22, 2020
Graduate, Opportunities, Research, Spotlight

Asian Studies Spotlight: Danielle Barkley

November 22, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Publications, Research

We have a new Publications Page!

November 22, 2020
Achievements, Event Highlights, Research

UBC Tianzhu-Hurvitz Lecture Series: Karma in Chinese Buddhist Historiography Lecture Report and Video

November 10, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Event Highlights, Students

Chinese Language Program Mid-Autumn Festival Photo Challenge!

November 10, 2020
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight – Shota Iwasaki

November 4, 2020
Featured Courses, Students

Featured Term 2 Course: Yōkai: The Strange & Supernatural in Early Modern Japanese Popular Culture

October 23, 2020
Featured Courses, Students

Featured Term 2 Course: Tibetan Literature, Genres, and Book Culture

October 22, 2020
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight – Haoyue Li

October 18, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, In The Media

Retired Asian Studies Professor Florence Yeh Chia-ying Featured in New Documentary

October 15, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Opportunities

We're Hiring! 2020 Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Hong Kong Studies

October 8, 2020
Achievements, Alumni, Spotlight, Students

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight - Faiz Jaffar

October 5, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

2019/20 Lecturers of the Year Announced

October 2, 2020
Alumni, Announcements, Faculty

Celebrating the Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies

September 16, 2020
Alumni, Graduate, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight - Rosaley Gai

September 16, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Publications, Research

Asian Studies Professor Oberoi’s Writings Featured in New Book

September 10, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Research

Jinhua Chen Announced as an RSC Fellow for 2020!

September 8, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, In The Media, Research

UBC prof translates earliest surviving live-action Mulan film

September 2, 2020
Achievements, Faculty, In The Media, Publications, Students

Asian Studies Graduate Students feature daily in Japanese multimedia publication "In Media Res"

September 1, 2020
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Spotlight on Sheng Yen Education Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Chinese Buddhism - Jeffrey Kotyk

August 27, 2020

Inspiration in Isolation - Dagmar Schwerk

August 27, 2020
Achievements, Faculty, Students

Transitioning Asian Studies to online for Winter 2020...no easy task!

August 27, 2020

Korean Speaking Practice Forum Open for 2020W Term 1!

August 19, 2020
Announcements, Opportunities, Students

Teaching Assistantships Now Open - Winter 2020

August 16, 2020
Featured Courses, Students

New course for Winter Term 1: ASIA 561A "Asian Empires, Colonialism and Nationalism"

August 12, 2020
Achievements, Alumni, Research, Spotlight, Students

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight - Chulthim Guring

July 23, 2020
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight - Daryl Louie

July 23, 2020
Announcements, Opportunities, Students

Practice Your New Language Skills with UBC Tandem!

July 23, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Publications, Research

Nusantara's Indigenous Knowledge

July 23, 2020
Announcements, Research, Staff

Statement on Academic Freedom

July 22, 2020
Staff, Students

Update about Courses for Term One in the 2020W Session

July 17, 2020
Staff, Students

Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian & Persianate Studies Fall 2020 / Winter 2021 Schedule

July 8, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Staff

Farewell Message from Outgoing Departmental Head Ross King

June 30, 2020
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight - Kenneth Wong

June 25, 2020
Announcements, Event Highlights, Featured Courses, Students

Learning Cantonese Through Popular Culture

June 25, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Staff, Students

Asian Studies Statement on Racial Violence and Racial Injustice

June 20, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Rumee Ahmed promoted to Full Professor of Islamic Law

June 12, 2020
Achievements, Alumni, Staff, Students

Congratulations to our graduates!

June 9, 2020
Announcements, Featured Courses, Students

Featured Course for Winter Term 2!

June 8, 2020
Staff, Students

Inspiration in Isolation - Anthony Pun

May 29, 2020
Spotlight, Staff, Students

Student Spotlight: Sophie Rock

May 28, 2020
Announcements, Faculty

Congratulations to Christina Yi

May 27, 2020
Staff, Students

Inspiration in Isolation - Bianca Chui

May 27, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Spotlight

Q&A: Speaking Mandarin Chinese as a heritage or non-heritage learner

May 22, 2020
Announcements, Opportunities, Students

Undergraduate Event Survey: What would you like to see in an Asian Studies webinar?

May 14, 2020
Faculty, Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight

Inspiration in Isolation - Sunnie Wang

May 1, 2020
Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight, Staff

Inspiration in Isolation - Mason Leung

May 1, 2020
Faculty, Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight

Inspiration in Isolation - Anyi Lee

May 1, 2020
Faculty, Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight

Inspiration in Isolation - Christina Laffin

May 1, 2020
Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight, Students

Inspiration in Isolation - Guangyuan Zhao

May 1, 2020
Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight, Students

Inspiration in Isolation - Candice Kong

May 1, 2020
Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight, Students

Inspiration in Isolation - Cherry Tang

May 1, 2020
Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight, Students

Inspiration in Isolation - Aydin Quach

May 1, 2020
Faculty, Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight

Inspiration in Isolation - Li-Jung Lee

May 1, 2020
Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight, Staff

Inspiration in Isolation - Cindy Hah

May 1, 2020
Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight, Staff

Inspiration in Isolation - Michelle Strauss

May 1, 2020
Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight, Students

Inspiration in Isolation - Xinran Huang

May 1, 2020
Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight, Staff, Students

Inspiration in Isolation - Connie Wu

May 1, 2020
Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight

Inspiration in Isolation - Akhil Dattani-Jobanputra

May 1, 2020
Graduate, Research, Spotlight, Students

Meet Our Students: Nicole Lin

May 1, 2020
Faculty, Inspiration in Isolation, Spotlight, Staff, Students

NEW SERIES: Inspiration in Isolation

May 1, 2020
Event Highlights, Students

ASIA 365: "Punjabi Cinema" student videos

May 1, 2020
Faculty, Students

Generous Gifts From Students

May 1, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty, Research, Students

Discovering Premodern Japan through Video

May 1, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Appointment of Sharalyn Orbaugh as Head, 2020-2023

May 1, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Asian Studies Senior Lecturer Qian Wang wins Killam Teaching Prize!

April 29, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Featured Courses, Publications, Spotlight

Around the World in Six Tones: Exploring the Global Phenomenon of Cantonese Music

April 28, 2020
Achievements, Faculty, Featured Courses, Publications, Research, Students

Free to watch now: Chinese Film Classics (with English subtitles)

April 28, 2020
Announcements, Featured Courses, Students

New Summer 2020 Term 1 and Term 2 courses!

April 22, 2020
Featured Courses

Summer 2020 Term 1: PERS 400

April 17, 2020
Event Highlights, Students

2020 Careers Night Recap (March 12)

April 8, 2020

2020 Japanese Speech Contest Recap

April 8, 2020
Event Highlights, Students

Chinese Poetry Night Recap

April 1, 2020
Announcements, Faculty

COVID-19 Update - Advancement in Language Programs

March 31, 2020
Faculty, In The Media, Students

Re-discovering the love of Cantonese language

March 11, 2020
Announcements, Students

New Weekly Series: Chinese in 1 Minute

March 11, 2020
Announcements, Opportunities, Students

Himalaya Program: Language Learning (Nepali and Tibetan) - Summer courses May 11-22, 2020!

February 26, 2020
Faculty, Students

Handsworth Student Visit

February 19, 2020
Event Highlights, Faculty, Students

“Paper,” Binding, Book: Perspectives from Japan, India, and Tibet

February 19, 2020
Achievements, Event Highlights, Faculty

UBC Japanese Faculty invited to Emperor's Birthday Celebration

February 18, 2020
Students

Korean Talent Show and Movie Night

February 18, 2020
Announcements

Tell us your thoughts!

February 3, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Faculty

Josephine Chiu-Duke promoted to Full Professor

February 3, 2020
Students

2020 Japanese Fun Night - Feb 28th!

February 3, 2020
Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Aaron Throness

January 29, 2020
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight Featuring Verna Yam

January 29, 2020
Announcements, Faculty, Opportunities, Students

Sign up for the Carbon Footprint Challenge!

January 29, 2020
Opportunities

Call for Submissions: 2020 Middle East and Islamic Studies Consortium Conference

January 22, 2020
Opportunities

Make Community Connections! Reading Week Projects for Asian Studies students

January 22, 2020
Opportunities

2020 APU Summer Gateway Program

January 22, 2020
Publications

How MFBTY Adopted Hip-Hop for the K-Pop Scene

January 22, 2020
Announcements

Graduation Photos with Artona Deadline for Asian Studies Majors

January 22, 2020
Achievements, Announcements, Students

Punjabi-Canadian family of Onkarbir Singh Toor honours his memory through new enhancement fund

January 20, 2020
Announcements

The Multidisciplinary Undergraduate Research Conference (MURC) is Accepting Applications!

January 8, 2020
Spotlight, Students

Video: Finding My Identity | Student Spotlight: Matthew Remedios

December 17, 2019
Achievements, Alumni, Faculty, In The Media, Students

Asian Studies Alumnus Leo-Thomas Brylowski awarded Korea Times Grand Prize for translation

December 17, 2019
Achievements, Publications, Research, Students

Asian Studies Student Published in University of Toronto's Snergy Journal

December 17, 2019
Event Highlights, Students

2019 汉语桥 “Chinese Bridge” BC – Mandarin Singing Contest

December 17, 2019
Faculty, In The Media

Religion and Politics in Bhutan: An Interview with Dr. Dagmar Schwerk

December 17, 2019

Asian Studies Administrator Maija Norman awarded a Dean of Arts Award for Staff Excellence 2019

December 11, 2019
Event Highlights, Faculty, Students

Event Recap: The Second Annual Cantonese Fun Night (2019)

November 28, 2019
Featured Courses

JAPN 453: Readings in Modern Japanese Literature

November 19, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 337: The Korean People in Modern Times

November 19, 2019
Faculty, In The Media

Dr. Christopher Rea Featured in "What Makes China Laugh?" with Kung Fu Komedy

November 19, 2019
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight Featuring Chandima Silva

November 19, 2019
Faculty, In The Media, Publications

Dr. Josephine Chiu-Duke Interviewed by Asia Pacific Foundation

October 31, 2019

Event Recap: 2019 Chinese Fun Night

October 31, 2019
Faculty, In The Media

Dr. Josephine Chiu-Duke Published in CBC on Protests in Hong Kong

October 22, 2019

New Publication on Hokkaidō 150: settler colonialism and Indigeneity in modern Japan and beyond

October 22, 2019
Announcements

2019W Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture

October 22, 2019
Announcements, Faculty

2019 Lecturers of the Year

October 8, 2019
Featured Courses

2019 Global Seminar: CHIN234 Learning Chinese in a living classroom in Taiwan

October 8, 2019
Faculty, Research

Multiple Secularities: Beyond the West, Beyond Modernities

October 8, 2019
Achievements, Faculty

Sunera Thobani Honoured at ''Women Who Named the Unnamed: Pakistan's and Local Women Heroes''

October 8, 2019
Announcements

Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Persian & Iranian Studies - Fall 2019 / Winter 2020 Schedule

October 7, 2019
Announcements, Faculty

2019 Lecturers of the Year

October 1, 2019
Event Highlights

Event Recap: The Warrior Atsumori

September 24, 2019
Faculty, In The Media

Dr. Josephine Chiu-Duke Published on The Military Suppression in Hong Kong

September 19, 2019
Event Highlights

Event Recap: 2019 UBC Language Day

September 19, 2019
Announcements

At the Border: An Exhibition of Artists' Work in Response to the Partition of Punjab

September 10, 2019
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Parboti Roy

August 28, 2019
Featured Courses

SANS 300: Introductory Sanskrit

August 26, 2019
Event Highlights, Featured Courses, Students

Event Recap: UBC Himalaya Program's Summer Nepali and Tibetan Language Courses 2019

August 23, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 431: Tibetan Literature, Genres, and Book Culture

August 19, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 412: Pre-Modern Chinese Poetry (Pre-Qin to Tang)

August 19, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 413: Pre-Modern Chinese Poetry (Tang to Qing)

August 19, 2019
Faculty, Research

Drawing Lines in a Mandala: A Sketch of Boundaries Between Religion and Politics in Bhutan

August 19, 2019

2019 Asian Studies Welcome Event

August 19, 2019
Spotlight, Students

Student Spotlight 2019

August 9, 2019
Featured Courses, Students

Documenting Punjabi Canada

August 9, 2019
Announcements, Faculty

UBC–PUP Joint Undergraduate Research Forum, February 16–23, 2019

August 9, 2019
Announcements

Punjabi Studies in Europe

August 9, 2019
Announcements, Faculty

Memory work along the Indo-Pakistan border: “Creative Interruptions” Multi-Arts project in Preetnagar, Punjab, India and in London, UK

August 9, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 448: Narrative and Performance in South Asia

July 12, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 340/HIST 379: History of Later Imperial China

July 12, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 348: Great Literary Works of Classical India in Translation

July 12, 2019
Announcements

Punjabi Studies Oral History Research Project and Program Development, 2019-2021

July 10, 2019
Announcements

In Memoriam: Alireza Ahmadian (22 Feb, 1981 - 28 June, 2019)

July 9, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: 2019 Korean-English Language Exchange Event

July 3, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 384: The Zhuangzi (Chuang-Tzu)

June 24, 2019
Spotlight, Students

Zining Wang Student Alumni Interview with Mason Leung

June 21, 2019
Featured Courses

Brand New ASIA Courses for Winter 2019/20!

June 10, 2019
Announcements, Featured Courses

KORN 415: Korean Conversation and Composition

June 10, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: Assessing Spoken Interaction Workshop

June 7, 2019
Alumni, Spotlight, Students

Jimmy Mitchell Student Alumni Interview with Elliott Cheung

June 7, 2019
Featured Courses

Featured Persian/Iranian Courses for W19

June 3, 2019
Announcements

Leo K. Shin Interviewed by Hong Kong Citizen News

May 30, 2019
Announcements

Don Baker Quoted on "North Korean Women in China Trapped in Sex Trade"

May 30, 2019
Announcements

CedarBough Saeji Interviewed by BBC: How Did K-Pop Conquer the World?

May 30, 2019
Announcements

Mostafa Abedinifard Published in "Asian Cinema"

May 30, 2019
Featured Courses

Featured South Asian Courses for W19

May 29, 2019
Faculty, Spotlight

Episode 6: Faculty Spotlight with Christopher Rea

May 28, 2019
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Haoyue Li

May 24, 2019
Announcements

South Korea’s Corruption, Exposed by the Burning Sun

May 3, 2019
Announcements

Student Spotlight with Kiran Sunar: Unlocking the Wisdom of the Past

April 9, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: 2019 CHIN 233 Happy “Fun” Summer Vacation Travel Fair

April 8, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: 2019 BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Speech Contest

April 8, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: 2019 UBC CHIN243 Documentary Festival － ​Stories About Us, By Us, For Us

April 8, 2019
Announcements

Asian Studies Student Wins NATSA Prize for Best Undergraduate Essay

April 4, 2019
Announcements

Tadoku Club: Final Meeting of Winter 2018/19

April 4, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: Hong Kong Comedian Vivek Mahbubani Visits UBC

April 4, 2019
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight – Paul R Kim

April 2, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: 2019 UBC Lantern Festival Poetry Night

March 26, 2019
Announcements

Dr. CedarBough Saeji Interviewed on Big Bang Prostitution Scandal

March 26, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Mark Turin Receives Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies Wall Scholar Research Award

March 26, 2019
Announcements

Sadhu Binning to Receive 2019 UBC Honorary Degree

March 26, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 367: Contemporary Korean Culture

March 26, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 329: Gender in Southeast Asia

March 26, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: The 2019 BC Korean Speech Contest

March 22, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: The 2019 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program

March 21, 2019
Faculty, Spotlight

Episode 5: Faculty Spotlight with Dr. Alison Bailey

March 15, 2019
Announcements

2019 Chinese Poetry Night

March 13, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: Japanese Language Programme Annual Talent Night 2019

March 12, 2019
Announcements

Video: Why is Punjabi Studies important at UBC?

March 12, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: 2019 UBC Lunar New Year Celebration—Year of the Pig

March 12, 2019
Announcements

Leo Shin Quoted in Article on the Emergence of Hong Kong Studies

March 12, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: Chinese Language Program 2019 Volunteer’s Day

March 12, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: A Conversation on Pop Culture with Artist Anita Lee

March 12, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard's Publishes Encyclopedia Entry on "Transgendered Subjectivities in contemporary Iran"

March 12, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 327: Korean Popular Music in Context

March 12, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 370: The Sanskrit Cosmopolis: India and the World, 200-1500 CE

March 12, 2019
Announcements

Video + Photos: 2019 Asian Studies Careers Night

March 7, 2019
Announcements

2019 UBC Asian Studies Graduate Conference

February 26, 2019
Announcements

Video: 2019 Lunar New Year Celebration

February 21, 2019
Announcements

Event Recap: The 1st Korean Movie Night

January 24, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 211: Sex, Sexual Ethics, and Asian Religions

January 24, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Edward Slingerland Publishes New Book "Mind and Body in Early China" Through Oxford University Press

January 24, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Douglas Ober Publishes Article to Cambridge University Press

January 24, 2019
Featured Courses

CHIN 465: Fantasy in Chinese Literature

January 22, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 300: Writing and Culture in East Asia

January 22, 2019
Announcements

Dear Sophie, How do I Apply to a Majors in Asian Studies?

January 8, 2019
Faculty, Spotlight

Episode 4: Why Studying Manga and Anime Matters. Faculty Spotlight with Sharalyn Orbaugh

January 8, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 382: Buddhism in China

January 8, 2019
Featured Courses

ASIA 362: Pre-Modern Japanese Fiction (in translation)

January 8, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Tom Hunter Publishes Article on love and beauty in the talk of Krishna and Rukmini

January 8, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Joshua Mostow gives Keynote Lecture on Poetic Imagination in Japanese Art

January 8, 2019
Announcements

Creating Community - Persian Language and Iranian Studies at UBC

January 3, 2019
Announcements

Dr. Bruce Fulton Promotes Korean Literature to the World - Interview with the Korea Foundation

January 3, 2019
Announcements

Videos: KORN 200 Group Projects

January 2, 2019
Announcements

2018W UBC Chinese Language Program Heritage Final Project Festival “Mapping China”

December 21, 2018
Announcements

2018 汉语桥 “Chinese Bridge” BC – Mandarin Singing Contest

December 20, 2018
Announcements

Photos: The 2018/19 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies with Dr. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney

November 28, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 375: Global Chinese Cinemas

November 23, 2018
Announcements

W18 Chinese Language Program Volunteer Appreciation Event

November 23, 2018
Announcements

UBC Chinese Poetry Society 3rd Gathering

November 14, 2018
Announcements

JAPN Department's 4th Japanese Movie Night

November 14, 2018
Announcements

The First Annual Cantonese Fun Night (2018)

November 14, 2018
Faculty, Spotlight

Episode 3: Lecturer of the Year, Misuzu Kazama

October 30, 2018
Faculty, Spotlight

Episode 2: Lecturer of the Year, Xueshun Liu

October 29, 2018
Announcements

Alumni Spotlight – Michelle Kim

October 28, 2018
Announcements

We are Hiring!

October 28, 2018
Announcements

Event Recap: Chinese Fun Night 2018

October 24, 2018
Announcements

Centre for Student Involvement & Careers launches Arts Peer Academic Coaching (APAC) service

October 24, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 345: Chinese Film Classics

October 24, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 303: Mahayana Buddhism

October 24, 2018
Announcements

Ben Whaley, PhD '16, Featured by the Association for Asian Studies

October 24, 2018
Announcements

Richard Liu, BA '93, Receives UBC Alumni Builder Award

October 24, 2018
Faculty, Spotlight

Episode 1: Faculty Spotlight with Leo Shin

October 10, 2018
Announcements

Dr. CedarBough T. Saeji Quoted for K-Pop's Global Rise and Impact

October 10, 2018
Announcements

Meiji at 150 Digital Teaching Resource Launch

October 10, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 388: Buddhist, Brahamanical and Jain Philosophers in Interaction

October 5, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 360A: Modern Iran through Literature and the Arts

October 5, 2018
Announcements

Video & Photos: 2018/19 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture with Professor Helen F. Siu

October 4, 2018
Alumni, Announcements, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight – Jan Jettel

October 2, 2018
Featured Courses

Featured Course: ASIA 330 (Islam in South Asia)

September 26, 2018
Announcements

Surviving the Airpocalypse

September 26, 2018
Alumni, Announcements, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight - Michelle Kim

September 25, 2018
Announcements

Meet our 2018 Winter Work Learn Students

September 21, 2018
Announcements

Chinese University of Hong Kong Delegation Visits UBC

September 19, 2018
Announcements

2018 Lecturers of the Year

September 18, 2018
Announcements, Faculty

Ongoing Research: Modern Punjabi Literature in India, Pakistan, and Beyond

September 12, 2018
Announcements

Fostering Student Learning: The Onkarbir Singh Toor Memorial Punjabi Studies Enhancement Fund

September 12, 2018
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Kyrie Vermette

September 12, 2018
Alumni, Announcements, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight – Michael Zipursky

September 11, 2018
Announcements

Recap: the 2018 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program

September 11, 2018
Featured Courses

Featured Course: Documenting Punjabi Canada (ASIA 475)

September 10, 2018
Announcements

Photos and Video: Asian Studies Welcome Back Lunch on Imagine Day

September 6, 2018
Featured Courses

Featured Courses For W18

September 5, 2018
Announcements, Spotlight, Students

Go Global Experience: Elliott Cheung

August 28, 2018
Announcements

Dear Sophie: Undergrad Advising Corner August 2018

August 22, 2018
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Ranbir Johal

August 22, 2018
Announcements, Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Cyrus Qiu

August 22, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 378: Philosophical Wisdom of Early India

August 21, 2018
Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Lovneet Aujla (Undergraduate Student)

August 17, 2018
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Sukhwinder Gill

August 17, 2018
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Julie Vig

August 17, 2018
Alumni, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight – Jennifer Ward

August 17, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 570A 011: Popular Culture Theory

August 8, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 490A: Partition of India in Film and Narrative

August 1, 2018
Announcements

Event Photos: The 2018 World Sanskrit Conference

August 1, 2018
Featured Courses

HINU 102: Introductory Hindi-Urdu

August 1, 2018
Announcements

Bringing Big Data to Religious History

July 20, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 346: Topics in Japanese Cultural History II: The Early Modern Period

July 11, 2018
Featured Courses

W18: Sikh and Punjabi Studies Courses

July 11, 2018
Featured Courses

New For W18: Persian Studies Courses

July 11, 2018
Featured Courses

New For W18: Tibetan Studies

July 11, 2018
Announcements

Dear Sophie: Undergrad Advising Corner July 2018

June 29, 2018
Announcements

Event Recap: The Second Cantonese Worlds Workshop and the 4th Workshop on Innovations in Cantonese Linguistics

June 29, 2018
Announcements

Asian Studies Communications & Events Survey

June 22, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 323/HIST 377: History of Cantonese Worlds

June 6, 2018
Featured Courses

CNTO 311 Basic Cantonese for Mandarin Speakers

June 6, 2018
Announcements

2,300-year-old Chinese Philosophy Shows Why We Should Try to Be a Mess

June 1, 2018
Announcements

Vancouver Summer Program's "Global Migration, Local Communities: Asian Canadian Histories" course package

June 1, 2018
Announcements

Christopher Rea's The Age of Irreverence Now Available in Chinese

June 1, 2018
Announcements

Class of 2018: Graduation Reception

May 25, 2018
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight – Ciaran Dudley

May 23, 2018
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight – Laura Sparks

May 23, 2018
Announcements

Khyentse Foundation Gift Announcement

May 23, 2018
Announcements

The 2018 Canadian Museum Association (CMA) Awards of Outstanding Achievement

May 18, 2018
Announcements

Why a Canadian University is Fascinated by Hong Kong

May 16, 2018
Announcements

Congratulations to Dr. Christina Laffin, a Face of Research at UBC

May 11, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 356: Korean Film

April 20, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 304: Survey of South and Southeast Asian Performing Arts

April 20, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 343: Film in South Asia

April 20, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 312: Buddhism in Korea

April 20, 2018
Announcements

Event Recap: 2018 Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference

April 12, 2018
Announcements

Event Recap: John Howes Lecture videos and photos now available

March 29, 2018
Announcements

Event Recap: The 29th Canada National Japanese Speech Contest at the University of Alberta

March 29, 2018
Announcements

Event Recap: 2018 Asian Studies Careers Night

March 16, 2018
Announcements, Students

Event Recap: the first UBC Cantonese Singing Contest

March 16, 2018
Announcements

Event Recap: Professor Sze-Wing Tang of the Chinese University of Hong Kong visits UBC

March 16, 2018
Announcements

Recap: The 30th Annual BC Japanese Speech Contest

March 15, 2018
Announcements

TECO Lecturer applications

March 12, 2018
Announcements

Vancouver Korean-Canadian Scholarship Foundation awards scholarship to UBC Asian Studies' student

March 8, 2018
Announcements

New Publication: Colonizing Language, by Dr. Christina Yi

March 2, 2018
Alumni, Announcements, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight - Drew Wallin

March 1, 2018
Announcements

2018 Language Teaching Workshops

February 28, 2018
Announcements

Event Recap: Tadoku Club's First Meeting

February 19, 2018
Announcements

2018 Lunar New Year Celebration – Year of the Dog

February 16, 2018
Announcements

Student Karaoke Night hosted by the Japanese Department

February 9, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 211: Sex, Sexual Ethics, and Asian Religions

February 2, 2018
Announcements

Jinhua Chen awarded UBC Killam Research Prize

February 2, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 327: Korean Popular Music in Context

January 26, 2018
Featured Courses

ASIA 250: Introduction to Buddhism

January 26, 2018
Announcements

New Translation by Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton

January 26, 2018
Announcements

UBC receives $4.9 million for global Buddhist academic network

January 26, 2018
Announcements

Dr. Baker in the News

January 26, 2018
Announcements

Dr Slingerland in the News

January 26, 2018
Alumni, Announcements, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight – James Mutter

January 19, 2018
Announcements, Featured Courses

ASIA 351: Modern Chinese Fiction in Translation

January 9, 2018
Announcements

Hong Kong Studies Initiative: 2017 in Review

January 5, 2018
Announcements

Dr Slingerland in the News

January 5, 2018
Announcements

Ajay Bhardwaj, Asian Studies PhD student, helps UBC pave the way for new conceptions of PhD research and theses

January 5, 2018
Announcements

A Third Gender, co-conceived by Dr. Joshua Mostow, celebrated as one of the best Art Shows in NYC

January 5, 2018
Announcements

2017 Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia -- Job Search

December 21, 2017
Announcements

Dr. Ross King interviewed by The Korea Herald about K-pop's influence on Korean studies

December 14, 2017
Announcements

Ross King Interviewed by Hamyaari Media on UBC's Persian Program

November 28, 2017
Announcements

PhDivas interviews Kiran Sunar on Punjabi Legacies & Queer of Color Community

November 22, 2017
Announcements

Christina Yi interviewed in Meiji at 150 Podcast

November 22, 2017
Featured Courses

ASIA 302: Theravada Buddhism

November 22, 2017
Announcements

2017 Premodern Chinese Literature - Job Search

November 22, 2017
Announcements

UBC Students Won 7 Prizes in 2017 BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Singing Contest

November 21, 2017
Announcements

2017 Japanese Applied Linguistics Instructor Search

November 15, 2017
Announcements

New Translation by Christopher Rea and Bruce Rusk: The Book of Swindles

October 31, 2017
Announcements

MA student Chen Xin featured in interview on the literary genre of "Boys' Love" in China

October 25, 2017
Featured Courses

ASIA 398: Narrative Literature in Premodern India

October 23, 2017
Announcements

Dr. Christina Laffin invited to join the Royal Society of Canada College of New Scholars, Artists, and Scientists

October 23, 2017
Announcements

Dr. Joshua Mostow awarded a Foreign Minister's Commendation

October 23, 2017
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies Faculty Spotlight Interview: Christina Laffin

October 20, 2017
Announcements

Enacting Culture/s: Theatre and film across disciplines

October 16, 2017
Announcements

Chris Rea Tenure Dossier

September 29, 2017
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Casey Collins

September 21, 2017
Announcements

Sunera Thobani Dossier

September 20, 2017
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Scott Wells

September 13, 2017
Announcements

2017 Hindi-Urdu Search

September 8, 2017
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Minami Orihara

August 28, 2017
Announcements

2017 Chinese Thought Search

June 30, 2017
Announcements

Lighting the Way: Interview with Tom Hunter for the Colloquium

June 6, 2017
Announcements

In Vancouver’s ‘Cantosphere’, a sense of responsibility and an identity under siege: Leo Shin interviewed by South China Morning Post

June 6, 2017
Announcements

2017 Chinese Literature and Translation Search

May 31, 2017
Announcements

2017 Cantonese Search

May 31, 2017
Announcements

2017 CHINAL Campus Visit

May 17, 2017
Announcements

In the News: Don Baker interviewed by New Books Network on "Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea"

May 17, 2017
Announcements

The 2017 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program

May 15, 2017
Announcements

2017 ALL Sessional Search

May 12, 2017
Announcements

2017 JAPN Sessional Searches

May 12, 2017
Announcements

2017 TECO Search

May 5, 2017
Announcements

UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative Launch

May 4, 2017
Announcements

2017 Chinese Applied Linguistics Search

May 2, 2017
Announcements

2017 Tianzhu Postdoc Search

May 2, 2017
Announcements

2017 Chinese Lecturer

April 25, 2017
Announcements

2017 Merit Review

April 21, 2017
Alumni, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight - Alison Winters

April 13, 2017
Announcements

The 29th Annual BC Japanese Speech Contest

March 20, 2017
Announcements

BC "Chinese Bridge" Mandarin Speech Contest UBC Results

March 17, 2017
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies Faculty Spotlight Interview: Dr. Thomas Hunter

March 17, 2017
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies Faculty Spotlight Interview: Francesca Harlow

March 3, 2017
Announcements

In Memoriam: John Forman Howes, 1924-2017

February 21, 2017
Announcements

Alumnus Gary Matson Receives a Certificate of Commendation for his Great Contributions Towards Canada-Japan Relations

February 21, 2017
Announcements

Summer Course Schedule Now Online

February 21, 2017
Announcements

Professor Leo Shin Interviewed on Omni News

February 21, 2017
Announcements

Dr. Christopher Rea's Latest Book Awarded the Joseph Levenson Post-1900 Book Prize

February 21, 2017
Announcements

Dr. Edward Slingerland named a Distinguished University Scholar

February 21, 2017
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Kiran Sunar

February 3, 2017
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Peder Gedda

February 3, 2017
Announcements

Pedometer

January 30, 2017
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies Faculty Spotlight Interview: Peter Nosco

January 6, 2017
Announcements

Asian Studies Letterman Jackets - 2018 Spring Order

December 20, 2016
Announcements

Screening of Yellowing 亂世備忘 (2016)

December 7, 2016
Announcements

2016 BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Singing Contest UBC Results

December 6, 2016
Alumni, Announcements, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight – Nick Angiers, BA '08

December 2, 2016
Announcements

In the News: Chris Rea Interviewed by The New York Times, "Finding a Rich Vein of Humor in China’s Past"

November 16, 2016
Announcements

In the News: Qian Wang Quoted in Macleans' Article "Canadian students need to go to China, but they need some help"

November 16, 2016
Announcements

Asian Studies Winter Potluck 2016

November 9, 2016
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies Faculty Spotlight Interview: Bruce Fulton

November 9, 2016
Alumni, Announcements, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight - Jimmy Mitchell, MA '95

November 4, 2016
Announcements

2016 Winter Session

October 31, 2016
Announcements

Meet our Students - Clayton Ashton, Ph.D. Student, Early Chinese History

October 27, 2016
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies Faculty Spotlight Interview: Ross King

October 26, 2016
Announcements

Go Global Interview Pt. 3 – Osaka, Japan with William Strausser

October 12, 2016
Alumni, Announcements, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight - Nick Stember, MA '16

October 12, 2016
Announcements

2016 Japanese Applied Linguistics Instructor Job Search

October 5, 2016
Announcements

2016 Chinese Applied Linguistics Instructor Job Search

October 5, 2016
Announcements

Go Global Interview - First Week in Kyoto, Japan with Chriss Goeb

September 27, 2016
Faculty, Spotlight

Asian Studies Faculty Spotlight Interview: Don Baker

September 27, 2016
Announcements

New Books! Chinese History and Culture Volumes 1 & 2 with the Editorial Assistance of Josephine Chiu-Duke and Michael S. Duke

September 27, 2016
Announcements

Dr. Jinhua Chen receives $2.5 million in SSHRC Partnership and Insight Grants

September 21, 2016
Announcements

Qian Wang CV and Teaching Dossier

September 16, 2016
Announcements

Jessica Main Tenure Dossier

September 16, 2016
Alumni, Announcements, Spotlight

Alumni Spotlight - Taylor Sadler, BA '15

September 14, 2016
Announcements

Meet our Students - Douglas Ober, Ph.D. Student, Modern Indian Buddhism

September 2, 2016
Announcements

CUHK Cantonese Exchange

September 2, 2016
Announcements

Creative Student Projects for ASIA 347, Fall 2015

September 2, 2016
Announcements

The Sheng Yen Education Foundation gives UBC Asian Studies $375,000 to create new Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chinese Buddhism

July 28, 2016
Announcements

Meet the New Instructor for ASIA 327: Korean Popular Music In Context

July 25, 2016
Announcements

Buddhist Charitable Foundation Gives UBC $2.2 Million to Create Strategic Partnership

July 11, 2016
Announcements

2016 Part-time Sessional Searches

June 14, 2016
Announcements

2016 Japanese Sessional Search

June 14, 2016
Alumni, Spotlight

Clayton Ashton

June 14, 2016
Announcements

In the News: UBC researchers use ultrasound technology to teach Cantonese

June 10, 2016
Graduate, Spotlight, Students

Meet our Students: Gurinder Mann

June 2, 2016
Announcements

2016 Tianzhu Charitable Foundation Postdoc Search

May 19, 2016
Alumni, Spotlight

Ben Whaley

May 16, 2016
Alumni, Spotlight

Douglas Ober

May 16, 2016
Announcements

A Journey with Sayuri Yoshinaga and Ryūichi Sakamoto

May 11, 2016
Announcements

2016 CHIN Language, Literature, and Film Lecturer Search

May 6, 2016
Announcements

2016 CNTO Lecturer Search

May 6, 2016
Announcements

2016 CHIN Language Lecturer Search

May 5, 2016
Announcements

2016 Merit Review

April 28, 2016
Announcements

Bruce Fulton's Forthcoming Book - The Human Jungle

April 14, 2016
Announcements

Cantonese Student Video Showcase: Class of 2015W

April 14, 2016
Announcements

Go Global Interview - First Week in Osaka, Japan with William Strausser

April 12, 2016
Announcements

CHIN CNTO JAPN Upcoming Course Number Changes

April 7, 2016
Announcements

2016 BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Speech Contest for University Students

March 31, 2016
Announcements

UBC Students Compete at the Canada National Japanese Speech Contest

March 31, 2016
Announcements

Bruce Fulton's Recently Published Books

March 31, 2016
Announcements

Photos: 2016 Asian Studies Graduate Conference

March 31, 2016
Announcements

Photos: 2016 Asian Studies Careers Night

March 31, 2016
Announcements

Photos: 2016 Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program

March 31, 2016
Announcements

VIDEO: Christopher Rea and Henry Jenkins on How Vaudeville Differed Between Hollywood and China

March 31, 2016
Announcements

From Hanshin to Fukushima: 20 Years of Researching Disasters in Japan

March 24, 2016
Announcements

David Graham Memorial Fund

March 17, 2016
Announcements

UBC Cantonese Got Talent 2015

March 17, 2016
Announcements

2016 Postdoctoral Fellow Position

March 11, 2016
Announcements

2016 Summer Sessional Positions

March 11, 2016
Announcements

From the Year of the Ape to the Year of the Monkey

March 3, 2016
Announcements

An Interview with Canada's Ambassador to the Republic of Korea, Eric Walsh

March 3, 2016
Announcements

Translating Korean Webtoons: An Interview with Bruce and Ju-Chan Fulton

March 3, 2016
Announcements

Farewell to Consul General Okada and Mrs. Okada

March 3, 2016
Announcements

The Update - March 3

March 3, 2016
Announcements

Upcoming Art Installation in the Asian Centre

February 17, 2016
Announcements

In the News: "Cantonese still thriving in Metro Vancouver despite wave of Mandarin-speaking immigrants"

February 10, 2016
Announcements

Ross King in the News: Mandarin-language classes growing in popularity in Metro Vancouver

February 5, 2016
Announcements

Photos: 2016 Japanese Program Karaoke Night

February 5, 2016
Announcements

The Update - February 4th

February 4, 2016
Announcements

The Update - January 21st

January 22, 2016
Announcements

The Update – January 7th

January 8, 2016
Announcements

Consulate General of Japan Announcement: 2016 MEXT Japanese Studies Scholarship - Application Open

January 8, 2016
Announcements

Japanese Lecturer Search

January 8, 2016
Announcements

CHIN Lecturer 2015

December 15, 2015
Announcements

The Asian Edge - Winter 2015

December 11, 2015
Announcements

Front Page Test Dmitri

December 10, 2015
Announcements

loops for front page Test

December 9, 2015
Alumni, Spotlight

Mareike Entzian

December 9, 2015
Announcements

Photos: Voices of Kakehashi in Multicultural Canada: Transcultural and Intercultural Experiences

December 4, 2015
Announcements

Podcast: Christopher Rea in Conversation with Timothy Brook

December 4, 2015
Announcements

Bruce Fulton's Forthcoming Books

December 4, 2015
Announcements

Video: 2015 BC "Chinese Bridge" Mandarin Singing Contest for University Students

December 3, 2015
Announcements

Photos: The Maiden at Dojoji Temple: Performance Interpretations

December 3, 2015
Announcements

The Update – November 19th

November 19, 2015
Announcements

Today in Asian Studies with Anne Murphy

November 18, 2015
Announcements

The Update - November 6th

November 6, 2015
Announcements

Congratulations to Dr. Joshua Mostow

November 6, 2015
Announcements

Chinese Fun Night 2015: Summary and Photos

November 6, 2015
Announcements

Japanese Movie Night 2015

November 6, 2015
Announcements

Winter Potluck

November 6, 2015
Announcements

Concert for Nepal - Photos

November 3, 2015
Announcements

The Update - October 22nd

October 22, 2015
Announcements

Pictures: Rajeev Taranath: A Concert for Nepal

October 13, 2015
Announcements

Photos & Video: Reception Celebrating Induction of Joshua Mostow into Royal Society of Canada

October 13, 2015
Announcements

Christina Yi's Dossier

October 13, 2015
Announcements

Asian Centre Keycard Access

October 6, 2015
Announcements

Mr. Yueh Hua famous Hong Kong film and TV star visits AS 325: Hong Kong Cinema, Monday Sept 28th.

October 6, 2015
Announcements

The Update - October 6th

October 6, 2015
Announcements

Qian's CV ad Teaching Dossier

October 1, 2015
Announcements

The Update - September 23rd

September 23, 2015
Announcements

Dr. Joshua Mostow Elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada

September 11, 2015
Announcements

UBC Prof Teaches Buddhism in the 21st century

September 11, 2015
Announcements

The Update - September 11th

September 11, 2015
Announcements

The Update - August 25th

August 28, 2015
Announcements

Asian Edge Summer 2015

August 17, 2015
Announcements

"Long Live Cantopop" - New Cantonese Language Program Featured in The Economist

August 17, 2015
Announcements

Congratulations to Dr. Stefania Burk for Being Appointed as Associate Dean, Academic!

July 31, 2015
Alumni, Spotlight

Milton Kiang

July 31, 2015
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight Featuring Micki Cowan

July 31, 2015
Alumni, Spotlight

John Tak

July 31, 2015
Alumni, Spotlight

Kayla Black

July 31, 2015
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Melody Pan

July 31, 2015
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Jeremy David Thomson

July 31, 2015
Announcements

Edward Slingerland in the News: For the Love of Spring, Golf Digest

June 17, 2015
Announcements

Chinatown Seniors Bring UBC Language Course to Life

June 5, 2015
Announcements

Asia Related Theatre Courses

June 4, 2015
Announcements

"Garbage Truck," a short story by Jae Kyung Lee for ASIA 357

April 28, 2015
Announcements

The Update April 14th Issue

April 14, 2015
Announcements

The Update – March 31st Issue

March 31, 2015
Announcements

Rui Wang Featured in Global Chinese Press

March 30, 2015
Announcements

2015 BC “Chinese Bridge”Mandarin Speech Contest for University Students

March 30, 2015
Announcements

The 27th BC Japanese Speech Contest at UBC

March 17, 2015
Announcements

The Update – March 17th Issue

March 17, 2015
Announcements

The Update – March 3rd Issue

March 3, 2015
Announcements

The Update – February 17th Issue

February 17, 2015
Announcements

The Update – February 3rd

February 3, 2015
Announcements

The Update - January 20th Issue

January 20, 2015
Announcements

The Update - January 7th Issue

January 7, 2015
Announcements

Trying Not to Try and Ted Slingerland in the New York Times!

December 16, 2014
Announcements

An Interview with Dr. Slingerland about his New MOOC

December 16, 2014
Announcements

Today in Asian Studies with Dr. Victor Mair - 2014 Wat Lecture Guest Speaker

December 15, 2014
Announcements

Messages for the Tohoku Residents in Japan

December 10, 2014
Announcements

2014 Korean Speech Contest Winners and Photos

December 10, 2014
Announcements

The Update - December 2nd Issue

December 3, 2014
Announcements

The 2014 BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Singing Contest

November 14, 2014
Announcements

Lecturer of the Year Awards

October 6, 2014
Announcements

Dr. Burk joins UBC's Faculty SoTL Leadership Program

September 26, 2014
Announcements

The Update - September 23rd Issue

September 25, 2014
Announcements

Video: Dr. Edward Slingerland Offers New Massive Open Online Course

September 10, 2014
Announcements

The Update - September 8th Issue

September 8, 2014
Announcements

Intensive Chinese in China with Yunnan Normal University

September 8, 2014
Announcements

Featured Asian Studies Courses for Term 1

August 29, 2014
Announcements

Asian Edge - Spring 2014

August 14, 2014
Announcements

The Update - August 14th Issue

August 14, 2014
Announcements

Q&A TEST

June 30, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Michael Zipursky

June 24, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Franklin Rausch

June 12, 2014
Announcements

Korean Studies Lab Seminar

June 3, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Max Gruber

May 30, 2014
Announcements

2014 Korean Speech Contest

May 29, 2014
Announcements

Asian Edge - Spring 2014

May 13, 2014
Announcements

2014 Chinese Bridge Speech Contest Results

May 6, 2014
Announcements

The 26th BC Japanese Speech Contest Photos and Results

May 6, 2014
Announcements

The 26th BC Japanese Speech Contest Photos and Results

May 6, 2014
Announcements

2014 Chinese Bridge Speech Contest Results

May 6, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Nathen Clerici

May 6, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Oleg Benesch

May 5, 2014
Announcements

Spotlight Taiwan: Cosmopolitanism & Tradition Forum

May 1, 2014
Announcements

The Update - April 25th Edition

April 25, 2014
Announcements

The Update - April 25th Edition

April 25, 2014
Announcements

A Book Reading and Discussion with Dr. Slingerland

April 15, 2014
Announcements

April 8th Issue of the Update - Asian Studies Events, News and Opportunities

April 10, 2014
Announcements

April 8th Issue of the Update - Asian Studies Events, News and Opportunities

April 10, 2014
Announcements

The Komagata Maru Project - Photos and Videos

April 7, 2014
Announcements

The Komagata Maru Project

April 7, 2014
Announcements

Sita-Virodhana-Prahasanm, the Revolt of Sita, a Farce

April 4, 2014
Announcements

Japanese Pedagogy Workshop and Book Fair at UBC

April 4, 2014
Announcements

Asian Studies signs Agreement of Academic Exchange with the National Institute of Japanese Literature

April 2, 2014
Announcements

Asian Studies signs Agreement of Academic Exchange with the National Institute of Japanese Literature

April 2, 2014
Announcements

Translation and the Colonial Desire for Transparency

April 1, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight Featuring Moto Mukai

March 26, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Katherine Tutschek

March 18, 2014
Announcements

March 11th Issue of the Update - Asian Studies Events, News and Opportunities

March 11, 2014
Announcements

Today in Asian Studies with Dr. Ross King

March 11, 2014
Announcements

Today in Asian Studies with Dr. Ross King

March 11, 2014
Announcements

March 11th Issue of the Update - Asian Studies Events, News and Opportunities

March 11, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight Featuring Julia Chalifoux

March 10, 2014
Announcements

UBC ASIA Academic Department Afternoon Tea Event

March 10, 2014
Announcements

Asian Studies Graduate Conference 2014

March 5, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Vickie Yau

March 4, 2014
Announcements

New Book, Infected Korean Language, Translated by Dr. Ross King

March 4, 2014
Announcements

Dr. Slingerland's Book, Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity, Released!

March 4, 2014
Announcements

New Book, Infected Korean Language, Translated by Dr. Ross King

March 4, 2014
Announcements

Special Lecture: The Whole Empire in a Single Palace

March 4, 2014
Announcements

Dr. Slingerland's Book, Trying Not to Try: The Art and Science of Spontaneity, Released!

March 4, 2014
Announcements

2014 Fo Guang Buddhist Monastic Retreat

March 3, 2014
Announcements

Call for Papers: Buddhism and Politics in the Twenty-First Century

February 27, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight Featuring Nabila Pirani

February 26, 2014
Announcements

February 25th Edition of the Update - Upcoming Lectures in Asian Studies, Student Opportunites and Faculty Opinions on Current Events

February 25, 2014
Announcements

Shunga: How J-Porn Became Academic - Lecture on February 27th

February 19, 2014
Announcements

Interview with Daisuke Miyao - Grad Conference Abstracts Due Tomorrow (Feb. 15)!

February 14, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Bernice Chan

February 14, 2014
Announcements

February 13th Issue of The Update - Photos, Upcoming books, Special Deals on Events and More

February 13, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Brent Ackerman

February 5, 2014
Announcements

January 28th issue of the Update

January 28, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight Featuring Vincent Ng

January 27, 2014
Announcements

UBC ASIA Academic Department Professor Luncheon Event Series

January 24, 2014
Announcements

Civil Society Engagement with North Korea

January 22, 2014
Announcements

The Ubyssey - UBC to offer Cantonese language, culture classes

January 16, 2014
Announcements

Kameyama lecture - Tomorrow - January 16

January 15, 2014
Announcements

January 14th Issue of The Update - New Year, Careers Night, Grad Conference & more

January 14, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Serene Chow

January 14, 2014
Announcements

January 14th Issue of The Update - New Year, Careers Night, Grad Conference & more

January 14, 2014
Announcements

11th Annual Chinese Lunar New Year Celebration!

January 13, 2014
Announcements

Diseases and Healing in Korean History

January 13, 2014
Announcements

2014 Asian Studies Careers Night

January 13, 2014
Announcements

CJR Lunchtime Lecture Series Schedule

January 8, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Clarchie Szeto

January 7, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Aaron Posehn

January 7, 2014
Announcements

Dr. Ross King on CBC Radio - Interview with Stephen Quinn about the Future Cantonese Studies Program

January 6, 2014
Announcements

Dr. Ross King on CBC Radio - Interview with Stephen Quinn about the Future Cantonese Studies Program

January 6, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Sarah Youngblutt

January 3, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Lea Chambers

January 3, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Austin Bonner

January 3, 2014
Alumni, Spotlight

Gary Towne

January 3, 2014
Announcements

The Update December 17th Edition

December 19, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Jonathan Trefz

December 16, 2013
Announcements

Graduate Conference 2014 - Call for Papers

December 6, 2013
Announcements

American Institute of Indian Studies - Language Study in India Program

December 4, 2013
Announcements

Asian Edge Fall 2013: a Recap of Term 1 - Lectures, Ongoing Projects, Accomplishments, Interviews and more

December 4, 2013
Announcements

2014 Japanese Speech Contest

November 27, 2013
Announcements

In the News - Does Religion Make Us Better? - Featuring Asian Studies Faculty Edward Slingerland and Anne Murphy

November 7, 2013
Announcements

Tsugaru Shamisen workshop with Hiroshi Yamaguchi

November 6, 2013
Announcements

The Chinese Language Programme Receives $58,000 Grant to Develop Flexible Learning Project

November 5, 2013
Announcements

Asian Studies Holiday Potluck

November 5, 2013
Announcements

UBC ASIA Academic Department Afternoon Tea Event

November 5, 2013
Announcements

The Update November 5th Edition - $2,000,000 Gift, New Courses, Student/Alumni Events & More

November 5, 2013
Announcements

UBC ASIA Academic Department Professor Luncheon Event Series

November 4, 2013
Announcements

New Sections Added for Term 2! CHIN 101 and 473

November 1, 2013
Announcements

Workshop and Lecture with International Tabla Master Sandeep Das

October 29, 2013
Announcements

Dhahan International Punjabi Literature Prize

October 28, 2013
Announcements

In the News: $2 Million Dollar Gift for Cantonese Studies (Interview)

October 28, 2013
Announcements

A Celebration of the Life of Professor Edwin G. Pulleyblank

October 24, 2013
Announcements

Japanese Music Night - Oct 30th

October 23, 2013
Announcements

Small Talk, Games, and Tongue Twisters, Oh My: Students and Teachers Celebrate Chinese Fun Night

October 23, 2013
Announcements

The Update October 22nd Edition - Japanese Music Night, Asian Studies Career Series, Awards and Other News

October 23, 2013
Announcements

Asia Club Career Night - Working in Government

October 17, 2013
Announcements

Interested in Going Abroad? Info Session October 23rd

October 16, 2013
Announcements

The 2013 John Howes Lecture - Watch the Full Lecture

October 15, 2013
Announcements

2013 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture - Video and Pictures

October 15, 2013
Announcements

Dean of Arts Announces $2,000,000 Donation to Sponsor the Development of a Cantonese Studies Program

October 3, 2013
Announcements

Dean of Arts Announces $2,000,000 Donation to Sponsor the Development of a Cantonese Studies Program

October 3, 2013
Announcements

UBC Annual Reports Features Dr. Edward Slingerland

October 2, 2013
Announcements

Artless Song Through Cherry Lips: Writing the Child in Colonial Korea

October 1, 2013
Announcements

The Update - September 24th Edition

September 30, 2013
Announcements

Regarding Barrie Morrison by Ashok Aklujkar

September 23, 2013
Announcements

September 24th - Public Lecture Featuring Mr. Anna Hazare

September 23, 2013
Announcements

The Dhahan International Punjabi Literature Prize

September 12, 2013
Announcements

The Update - September 10th Edition - Pai Hsien-yung Coming to UBC, Imagine Day Photos and more...

September 10, 2013
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New Faculty: Gordan Djurdjevic

September 6, 2013
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Sept. 24th - What is Chinese Universalism?

September 6, 2013
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Celebrating the Life and Work of Dr. Barrie Morrison - Sept 21st

September 4, 2013
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September 6th - Shigin - A Recital of Ancient Poetry

August 22, 2013
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August 22nd Edition of the Update - Events, Courses and Job Postings

August 22, 2013
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Asian Studies Imagine Day Event - September 3rd

August 9, 2013
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August 8th Edition of The Update - Go Global Edition

August 9, 2013
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July 23rd Edition of the Update - Extra Seats in Popular Classes and Other News...

July 23, 2013
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New Faculty Member - Christina Yi

July 22, 2013
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July 9th Edition of The Update - Dr Ross King is Back and Other News...

July 10, 2013
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(Re)imagining Taiwan - A Journey with Chiang Hsun. August 29th

July 9, 2013
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Rabindra-Nazrul Sandhya 2013 - July 6th

July 2, 2013
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New Faculty Member - Bruce Rusk

June 27, 2013
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Celebrate the Great Urdu Poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz this Saturday, June 29th

June 26, 2013
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Join Asian Studies for a Roundtable Lunch! July 11th

June 26, 2013
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Koryo Saram Studies Workshop - June 27th

June 26, 2013
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Princess Takamado Visits Asian Studies - Photo Gallery

June 19, 2013
Announcements

Professor Anne Murphy Recently Awarded SSHRC Grant of $74,997

June 14, 2013
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Graduation Reception Pictures Now Up

June 11, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with North K. Compton

May 28, 2013
Announcements

Professor Joshua Mostow to Hold Keynote Speech for International Workshop in Jerusalem

May 21, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Fongyee Walker

May 21, 2013
Announcements

An Evening of Sitar Music - Friday June 7th

May 17, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Agnes GoWoon Kim

May 16, 2013
Announcements

The Pure Land in Buddhist Cultures - May 31 - June 2

May 15, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Paula Bennett

May 13, 2013
Announcements

The Hanmun and Kanbun Workshops at UBC

May 9, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with David Moreton

May 7, 2013
Announcements

Symposium on Early Modern Japanese Values and Individuality

May 3, 2013
Announcements

Professor Barrie Morrison Memorial Service - May 2nd

April 30, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Oliver Ormrod

April 30, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Mark Williams

April 30, 2013
Announcements

Stefania Burk is Awarded the Killam Teaching Prize

April 17, 2013
Announcements

Professor Jerry Schmidt is awarded $92,585 SSHRC grant

April 17, 2013
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Assistant Professor Anne Murphy receives Hampton Research Grant

April 17, 2013
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Professor Edwin G. Pulleyblank (1922-2013)

April 15, 2013
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Government of Japan MEXT Research Student Scholarship: Applications Now Available

April 12, 2013
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Professor Don Baker on CTV News discussing the North Korean situation

April 12, 2013
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Conference Volunteer Opportunity for Undergraduates! May 31 to Saturday, June 2, 2013

April 10, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Richard N. Liu

April 8, 2013
Announcements

UBC ASIA Presents: Japanese Folk Dance Workshop with Jean Maeda

April 6, 2013
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UBC ASIA Club Elections Results!!

April 6, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Geoffrey Ip

April 3, 2013
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Photos! Mandarin Tone Learning Workshop

April 3, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Basil Tonks

April 2, 2013
Announcements

Ritual Culture in Early India: The 2013 Junior-Senior Scholarly Symposium in Sanskrit Studies

April 2, 2013
Announcements

UBC students represent proudly in 2013 BC “Chinese Bridge” Mandarin Speech Contest

March 28, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Tony Tsang

March 28, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Dean Robinson

March 28, 2013
Announcements

India in the Chinese Buddhist Imagination - Buddhist Studies Forum

March 26, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Shirley Nakata

March 26, 2013
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Two Talks by Anita Anantharam - March 27th and 28th

March 25, 2013
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Chasing China Dreams and Telling China Stories With Speaker Geremie R. Barmé

March 21, 2013
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Christopher Rea Discusses Chinese Humor on "The Coast", CBC Radio

March 20, 2013
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Public Lecture - National Amnesia and Literary Memory

March 20, 2013
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The Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program

February 27, 2013
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The Department of Asian Studies Presents - The 2nd Annual Graduate Student Conference

February 27, 2013
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The Virani Lecture Series of Islamic Studies Presents

February 27, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Koichi Ron Shimoda

February 26, 2013
Announcements

The Gadar Movement and the Quest for Freedom

February 26, 2013
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Revitalizing Tohoku, Japan After the 3.11 Earthquake and Tsunami

February 22, 2013
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Go Global Opportunities for UBC Asian Studies Students – Info Session

February 21, 2013
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Persian Potluck Party

February 21, 2013
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M.J. Akbar, renowned Indian journalist and author, is coming to UBC's Institute of Asian Research to give 3 public talks

February 20, 2013
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Demand for Chinese Studies Soaring at UBC

February 20, 2013
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A Life of Journal Writing: Fujiwara no Munetada and the Chūyūki

February 19, 2013
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Fiction in History and History in Fiction - By Professor Weirong Shen

February 19, 2013
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2013 Kameyama Buddhism Seminar Series

February 14, 2013
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Asian Studies Focus Group

February 13, 2013
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“Light Up NIPPON” - 3.11 Documentary Film

February 11, 2013
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2013 MEXT Japanese Studies Scholarship

February 8, 2013
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UBC JA x ASIA Summer Exchange Program 2013

February 6, 2013
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BC "Chinese Bridge" Mandarin Singing Contest

January 22, 2013
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Captured Buddha: Kawabata Ryushi's "Rakuyo Koryaku"

January 22, 2013
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Origins of Modern Iranian Cuisine

January 22, 2013
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Suzuki Lecture: Language Policy and Modernism

January 22, 2013
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PUNJAB ON FILM: Works by Ajay Bhardwaj

January 22, 2013
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LECTURE in BUDDHIST NARRATIVE AND POETRY

January 22, 2013
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UBC Kameyama Lecture Series - Prof. James Benn

January 22, 2013
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Asia Voila 2010

January 22, 2013
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Building Towards a Persian Language Program at UBC

January 22, 2013
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Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series - Andrew Horvat

January 22, 2013
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UBC Kameyama Lecture Series 2010

January 22, 2013
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Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series: Dora Nipp

January 22, 2013
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Celebrating 100 Years of Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang

January 22, 2013
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Rethinking Korean Family and Gender in the 21st Century

January 22, 2013
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Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series: Blake Bromley

January 22, 2013
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Autumn Gem: A Documentary on Modern China's First Feminist

January 22, 2013
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The Early South Asian Community in Britain and the Making of London's “Oriental Quarter"

January 22, 2013
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The Third Annual Celebration of Punjabi

January 22, 2013
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YSMWML: 2010-2011 David Der-wei Wang

January 22, 2013
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YSMWML: 2011-2012 Leung Ping-Kwan

January 22, 2013
Alumni, Spotlight

David Moreton

January 8, 2013
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Winter 2012 Newsletter

January 3, 2013
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Buddhist Rulers and Rulers of Buddhists: Buddhist Relic Veneration in Medieval China

January 2, 2013
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Call for Papers! Topics: “Women in Chosŏn and Colonial Korea” and “‘Publicness’ in the Confucian Tradition of Korea”

January 2, 2013
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Still looking for a Term 2 course?

January 2, 2013
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Lunch With a Prof! - Hosted by UBC ASIA Club

December 10, 2012
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New Translation by Professor Bruce Fulton

December 10, 2012
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Professor Edward Slingerland Featured in UBC Reports

December 10, 2012
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Call for Papers - 2nd Annual UBC Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference

December 4, 2012
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Assistant Professor Chris Rea featured in CNN commenting on humour in modern China

December 4, 2012
Alumni, Spotlight

Asian Studies Alumni Spotlight with Dafna Zur

December 3, 2012
Announcements

New Translation by Associate Professor Bruce Fulton

November 28, 2012
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Professor Edward Slingerland wins Best Essay Award from the journal Dao

November 19, 2012
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New Book by Assistant Professor Anne Murphy

November 19, 2012
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2012 Careers Night

November 5, 2012
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2012 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture

September 29, 2012
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Looking to fill your Faculty of Arts Research Requirement?

June 20, 2012
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Want to learn Chinese? UBC has an App for that!

May 10, 2012
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UBC Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference

May 9, 2012
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Asian Studies Spring Newsletter is out!

May 9, 2012
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UBC Asian Studies Wins CNIE-RCIE Award for Japanese 100/101 Project

May 9, 2012
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Shamisen & Odori: The Music and Dance of Kabuki

May 9, 2012
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Towards Understanding Thai Buddhism

May 9, 2012
Announcements

Association for Asian Studies Pacific Conference

May 9, 2012
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You're invited to the explorAsian 2012!

May 9, 2012
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The 2011 Junior/Senior Sanskrit Symposium

February 23, 2012
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Distinguished Alumni Speaker Series: Sajida Shroff

February 23, 2012
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The Taira Poets

February 23, 2012