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On study leave from July 2022 to June 2023 I am an assistant professor in pre-modern Chinese literature in the Department of Asian Studies, UBC. I received a BA (School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS), University of London), MA (University of British Columbia) and a PhD (Univer...Read more

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Lifeways in Indigenous Asia

Ayaka Yoshimizu

Ayaka Yoshimizu

Assistant Professor of Teaching

ayaka.yoshimizu@ubc.ca

C.K. Choi Building 180

Ayaka Yoshimizu

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Asian Diaspora Studies

Ayaka Yoshimizu is Assistant Professor of Teaching at the Department of Asian Studies. She also teaches and coordinates Arts courses for the UBC-Ritsumeikan Exchange Programs. Ayaka teaches courses on Japanese literature, films, media, audiovisual translation, and transpacific histories and cultures...Read more

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Asian Diaspora Studies

Aynur Kadir

Aynur Kadir

Assistant Professor | Lifeways in Indigenous Asia

aynur.kadir@ubc.ca

C.K. Choi Building 178

Aynur Kadir

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Aynur Kadir is an Indigenous Uyghur scholar, filmmaker and curator with a research focus on the documentation, conservation and revitalization of Indigenous cultures and languages. Her work bridges the gap between Indigenous studies in Canada and in Asia. Her research interests are in global indigen...Read more

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Lifeways in Indigenous Asia

Bin Zheng

Bin Zheng

Lecturer | Chinese Language and Literature

bin.zheng@ubc.ca

604 822 8574

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Bin Zheng

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Bin Zheng first started teaching Chinese at UBC as a lecturer in 2017. She has since taught both Chinese language courses and literature courses. In the 1990s, she received her B.A. and M.A. Degree in Chinese Language and Literature at Shaanxi Normal University in China. After moving to Canada, she ...Read more

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Binod Shrestha

Binod Shrestha

Lecturer | Nepali Language

binod.shrestha@ubc.ca

Binod Shrestha

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Nepali

Binod was born and raised in Nepal. Binod has been involved with Nepali Language instruction since 1990 as an instructor, interpreter and translator of various Nepali language initiatives in Nepal and Canada. He has taught English in various schools and colleges in Nepal, is a British Columbia certi...Read more

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Nepali

Bruce Fulton

Bruce Fulton

Associate Professor | Korean Literature and Literary Translation

fultonb@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 6145

Asian Centre 216

Bruce Fulton

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Associate Professor Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation I feel privileged to be part of the vibrant, welcoming community of scholars that is Asian Studies at UBC. As the inaugural holder of the Young-Bin Min Chair in Korean Literature and Literary Translation I offer...Read more

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Bruce Rusk

Bruce Rusk

Associate Professor | Pre-Modern and Early Modern China | Graduate Advisor

bruce.rusk@ubc.ca

604 822 5183

Asian Centre 404

Bruce Rusk

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My main areas of research and teaching are the cultural history of China, especially the Ming (1368–1644) through mid-Qing (1644–1911) periods. I have worked on the history of textual studies, literary culture, writing systems, and connoisseurship. Most recently, I co-edited a history of Chin...Read more

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Chien-Ju Lin

Chien-Ju Lin

Lecturer | Chinese Language

chienju.lin@ubc.ca

604 822 6245

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Chien-Ju Lin

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Chien-ju Lin first started teaching Chinese at UBC as a visiting lecturer in 2012, and she is now a lecturer as of 2016, teaching a variety of advanced heritage Chinese courses. Before teaching Chinese at UBC , she taught Chinese at Tamkang University’s Chinese Language Learning Center in Taiwan f...Read more

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Christina Laffin

Christina Laffin

Associate Professor | Classical Japanese

christina.laffin@ubc.ca

604 822 4990

Asian Centre 210

Christina Laffin

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Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture Japanese CV (PDF) English CV (PDF) Research Interests Medieval travel diaries; women’s education and socialization before 1600; poetic practices and waka culture; theories of travel, gender, and autobi...Read more

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Christina Yi

Christina Yi

Associate Professor | Modern Japanese Literature | Associate Graduate Advisor

christina.yi@ubc.ca

604 827 2093

Asian Centre 403B

Christina Yi

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My research field is modern and contemporary Japanese literature, with a particular focus on issues of postcoloniality, language politics, genre, and cultural studies. My first monograph, Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea, was published by Colum...Read more

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Christopher Rea

Christopher Rea

Professor | Modern Chinese Literature

chris.rea@ubc.ca

604 822 5428

Asian Centre 218

Christopher Rea

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Christopher Rea is a literary and cultural historian whose research focuses on the modern Chinese-speaking world. My most recent publications concern research methodology, early cinema, comedy, celebrities, swindlers, cultural entrepreneurs, and the scholar-writers Qian Zhongshu and Yang Jiang. I am...Read more

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Clayton Ashton

Clayton Ashton

Lecturer | Chinese Thought

clayton.ashton@ubc.ca

Jack Bell Building 137

Clayton Ashton

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Clayton Ashton is researching the concept of ritual in early Chinese ethics, religion and political thought. Focusing on the writings of pre-Qin and Early Imperial China, he is currently exploring how the idea of ritual was combined with developing ideas about the body, emotions and human nature to ...Read more

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Clement Tong

Clement Tong

Seasonal Lecturer | China, Hong Kong, and Cantonese Worlds

clement.tong@ubc.ca

Clement Tong

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Cantonese | East Asia

Dr. Clement Tong is an assistant professor of biblical studies and the coordinator of the Global Mandarin Program at the ACTS Seminaries (TWU). He is also a History and Asian Studies lecturer at the Kwantlen Polytechnic University, and a sessional lecturer at the University of British Columbia. Havi...Read more

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Cantonese | East Asia

Colleen Laird

Colleen Laird

Assistant Professor | Japanese Popular Culture

colleen.laird@ubc.ca

Colleen Laird

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Research Interests Japanese media and gender studies—female directors, film stars, and spectators. Cinema, video games, and streaming media. Film theory, genre theory, transnational cinemas and star texts, and feminist and queer theory. Japanese Women Directors Project: Digital Dialogu...Read more

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Donald Baker

Donald Baker

Professor | Korean

don.baker@ubc.ca

604 822 4478

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Donald Baker

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Professor in Korean History and Civilization He received his Ph.D. in Korean history from the University of Washington and has taught at UBC since 1987. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on Korean history and thought (religion, philosophy, and pre-modern science). In addition, he teac...Read more

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Eurie Shin

Eurie Shin

Lecturer | Korean Language

eurie.shin@ubc.ca

604 822 4052

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Eurie Shin

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Eurie received MA's from Yonsei University in Korea and University of California at Berkeley, and she has been teaching Korean at UBC since 2008. She is in charge of placement interviews, and she is the contact person if you are interested in taking any Korean language courses at UBC. https://kor...Read more

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Anthropology of Art | Museum Studies | Visual and Material Culture Studies | Asian Studies | Japanese

Fuyubi Nakamura

Fuyubi Nakamura

Assistant Professor | Visual and Material Cultures of Asia | MOA Curator, Asia

fuyubi.nakamura@ubc.ca

604 827 2707

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Fuyubi Nakamura

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Fuyubi Nakamura (中村冬日) is a socio-cultural anthropologist trained at Oxford. She is cross appointed with the Department of Asian Studies as Assistant Professor and with the Museum of Anthropology (MOA) where she works as Curator, Asia. She is also Associate Member in the Department of Anthro...Read more

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Anthropology of Art | Museum Studies | Visual and Material Culture Studies | Asian Studies | Japanese

Gurinder Mann

Gurinder Mann

Lecturer | Punjabi Language and Culture

gurinder.mann@ubc.ca

604 710 9106

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Gurinder Mann

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Punjabi

Born and raised in England, Gurinder grew up surrounded by UK Bhangra Bands, many of whom further fueled his innate passion for Punjabi culture. He completed his Bachelor’s degree at UBC, where he later returned to earn a Master’s degree in Asian Studies. He has a vast interest in romantic folkt...Read more

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Punjabi

Hannah Amaris Roh

Hannah Amaris Roh

Visiting Scholar | Sessional Lecturer | Korean Culture

hannah.roh@ubc.ca

Hannah Amaris Roh

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Hannah Roh is a Visiting Scholar and Sessional Lecturer at the Department of Asian Studies. She is the author of Christianity, the Sovereign Subject, and Ethnic Nationalism in Colonial Korea: Specters of Western Metaphysics (Routledge, 2022). After completing her PhD in Philosophy of Religions at Th...Read more

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Harjot Oberoi

Harjot Oberoi

Professor | South Asian Social & Religious History | On study leave from July 2022 to June 2023

oberoi@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 5189

Asian Centre 410

Harjot Oberoi

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On study leave from July 2022 to June 2023 Harjot Oberoi developed a life-long fascination with social history at St. Stephen’s College, Delhi University. On completing his BA (Honours) in history at Delhi University he moved in 1976 to the Centre of Historical Studies, Jawaharlal N...Read more

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Haruyo Takahashi

Haruyo Takahashi

Lecturer | Japanese Language

ha.ta.takahashi@ubc.ca

604 822 5362

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Haruyo Takahashi

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I have worked in the States, Japan, and Canada as a foreign/second language instructor in various educational settings. In addition, I served as a Japanese Language Education Advisor for the Japan Foundation,Toronto, where I conducted Japanese language teacher training seminars as well as several wo...Read more

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Hasan Siddiqui

Hasan Siddiqui

Assistant Professor | South Asian History

hasan.siddiqui@ubc.ca

Asian Centre 403A

Hasan Siddiqui

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Hasan Siddiqui is a historian of South Asia specializing in early-modern intellectual history. His research interests include the history of political thought, the history of the book, and the social and cultural history of the Mughal empire. He holds a PhD in History from the University of Chicago....Read more

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Helena Wu

Helena Wu

Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Hong Kong Studies | Convenor, UBC Hong Kong Studies Initiative | Assistant Professor | Hong Kong Studies

Helena.Wu@ubc.ca

Helena Wu

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Hong Kong

My primary area of research is Hong Kong cinema, literature and culture. With my comparative literature, cultural studies and sinological training from Hong Kong and Europe, I am keen on developing interdisciplinary approaches to textual and visual narratives, popular culture, creative industries, a...Read more

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Hong Kong

Hessam Dehghani

Hessam Dehghani

Assistant Professor of Teaching | Persian Language and Culture

hessam.dehghani@ubc.ca

604 822 4619

Hessam Dehghani

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Hessam Dehghani is an Assistant Professor of Teaching, Persian Language and Culture. Born and raised in Iran, he has always been fascinated with Iranian languages and Literature and their constitutive role in forming the Persianate identity. He conducted his master’s thesis on the study of some...Read more

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January 3 - June 30, 2023

ON LEAVE

Hsiang-ning Wang

ON LEAVE

January 3 - June 30, 2023

Hsiang-ning Wang

Chinese Language Program Coordinator | Associate Professor of Teaching | Chinese Applied Linguistics

sunnie.wang@ubc.ca

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Hsiang-ning Wang

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I received my Ph.D. in Comparative and International Education and M.A. in both Chinese Pedagogy and Educational Psychology from Indiana University-Bloomington. Before joining the Department of Asian Studies at UBC, I taught courses in international and comparative education at Indiana University (2...Read more

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Hyung-Gu Lynn

Hyung-Gu Lynn

AECL/KEPCO Chair in Korean Research

hlynn@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 1277

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Hyung-Gu Lynn

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Hyung-Gu Lynn is the AECL/KEPCO Chair in Korean Research and the Editor of Pacific Affairs, the leading academic journal in interdisciplinary studies of contemporary Asia and the Pacific. Dr. Lynn’s research focuses on Korea and Japan, ranging in chronological coverage from the late-19th ce...Read more

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Ihhwa Kim

Ihhwa Kim

Lecturer | Japanese Language

ihhwa@mail.ubc.ca

604 827 4035

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Ihhwa Kim

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Insun Lee

Insun Lee

Associate Professor of Teaching | Korean Language | On study leave Sept 1, 2021 to Aug 31, 2022

insun@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 5187

Asian Centre 214

Insun Lee

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On study leave from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2022 Major Research Interests Insun Lee’s major research interest focuses on understanding the difficulties and the process of acquiring the Korean language, faced by both “heritage” and “non-heritage” learners. Her research aim is to f...Read more

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Janet Um

Janet Um

Lecturer | Sanskrit Language and Literature

janet.um@ubc.ca

Janet Um

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Asian Studies | Sanskrit

Janet Um is a scholar of Sanskrit literature and the literary histories of premodern South Asia. Her current work explores the relationship between narrative, literary genre, and conceptions of the author in Sanskrit prose literature. And her broader research interests include narrative traditions a...Read more

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Asian Studies | Sanskrit

Jeonghye Son

Jeonghye Son

Lecturer | Korean Language and Culture

jhson39@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 4052

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Jeonghye Son

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Jeonghye Son specializes in Korean sociolinguistics with a specific focus on minority language maintenance/shift, language ideologies and identities. She completed her dissertation on language socialization processes through which languages ideologies and identities are constructed, transmitted and ...Read more

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Jessica Main

Jessica Main

Associate Head, Internal | Chair and Director, The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program in Buddhism | Associate Professor | Contemporary Society

jessica.main@ubc.ca

604 822 9305

C. K. Choi 283

Jessica Main

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Asian Studies | Buddhist Studies | Japanese

Office: Enter the Choi Building and proceed up the stairs to second floor. At the top of the stairs, you will be facing the IAR main office in Room 251. Turn left and go to the very end of the hallway. My office is in the last cluster on the right. Office hours are by appointment here Jessica beg...Read more

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Asian Studies | Buddhist Studies | Japanese

Jinhua Chen

Jinhua Chen

Professor | East Asian Buddhism

jinhua.chen@ubc.ca

604 822 5196

Asian Centre 612

Jinhua Chen

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Asian Studies | Chinese

After receiving my PhD from McMaster University in 1997, where I was trained as an historian of religions with a focus on East Asian Buddhism, under the guidance of Professors Koichi Shinohara, Phyllis Granoff and Robert Sharf, I held a postdoctoral research fellowship at Kyoto University, in Japan....Read more

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Asian Studies | Chinese

Josephine Chiu-Duke

Josephine Chiu-Duke

Professor | Chinese Intellectual History

chiuduke@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 5732

Asian Centre 406

Josephine Chiu-Duke

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Degrees: M.A., History: Modern Chinese Intellectual History, History Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1982. Ph.D. (U.B.C.) — Chinese Intellectual History Email: chiuduke(at)mail.ubc.ca Special research interest: (l) Traditional Chinese social, intellectual and cultural history...Read more

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Joshua Mostow

Joshua Mostow

Professor | Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Art

jmostow@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 5131

Asian Centre 217

Joshua Mostow

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Professor Joshua S. Mostow received his doctorate in the Comparative Literature and Literary Theory Program of the University of Pennsylvania. He has studied at International Christian University (Mitaka, Japan), Université de Paris (III, VII, and Ecole pratique des Hautes Etudes), and Gakushūin U...Read more

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Kaori Tanaka

Kaori Tanaka

Lecturer | Japanese Language

kaori.tanaka@ubc.ca

604 822 5511

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Kaori Tanaka

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Kaori Tanaka has taught Japanese as a second language to learners from various linguistic and cultural backgrounds in Taiwan, Japan, Poland and Canada. She used to work as a Japanese language education consultant in Canada and conducted numerous teaching seminars. She studied general linguistics...Read more

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Kay Duffy

Kay Duffy

Assistant Professor | Premodern Sinitic Poetry

kay.duffy@ubc.ca

604 822 5180

Asian Centre 405

Kay Duffy

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Kay Duffy is a scholar of premodern sinitic literatures whose research interests include the poetics, historiographies, and court cultures of the premodern sinographic sphere. Her current research project examines the composition and presentation of literary texts at court banquets held in observanc...Read more

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Kurtis Hanlon

Kurtis Hanlon

Sessional Lecturer | PhD Candidate

khanlon@mail.ubc.ca

Kurtis Hanlon

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Kyoko Hillman

Kyoko Hillman

Lecturer | Second Language Acquisition/Applied Linguistics

kyoko.kh@ubc.ca

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Kyoko Hillman

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Kyoko joined the department after teaching Japanese language at all levels in the U.S., Japan, China, Canada, and Nigeria.

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Leo Shin

Leo Shin

Associate Professor | Chinese History (with the Department of History) | On study leave from July 2022 to June 2023

lkshin@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 5167

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Leo Shin

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On study leave from July 2022 to June 2023 I am a cultural historian of China. I am interested in how the ideas of “China” and “Chineseness” have evolved over time, and I am intrigued by how the sociology of culture—the production, transmission, and consumption of beliefs ...Read more

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Li-jung Lee

Li-jung Lee

Lecturer | Chinese Language

lijung.lee@ubc.ca

604 822 6245

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Li-jung Lee

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Li-Jung Lee first started teaching at UBC as a visiting lecturer of Chinese, and she is now a lecturer. She teaches non-heritage Chinese and heritage Chinese courses. Before joining the Department of Asian Studies at UBC, she taught Chinese at Wake Forest University in North Carolina, USA, and devel...Read more

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Liam Doherty

Liam Doherty

Sessional Lecturer | Cantonese Language

liam.doherty@ubc.ca

Asian Centre 407

Liam Doherty

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Dr. Liam Doherty is a sessional lecturer teaching in the Cantonese Language Program, with a background in Chinese as an Additional Language Education and a particular interest in digital literacy and multilingualism, translation, corpus linguistics, and the use of open data-driven digital tools to h...Read more

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Maorong Cheng

Maorong Cheng

Sessional Lecturer | Chinese Language

maorong@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 4763

Maorong Cheng

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Special Research Interest: 1) Modern Chinese literature, Chinese literary modernity 2) Translation (Chinese-English/English-Chinese)

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Masumi Abe

Masumi Abe

Lecturer | Japanese Language

masumi.abe@ubc.ca

604 827 4075

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Masumi Abe

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Meng Wu

Meng Wu

Sessional Lecturer | Chinese Literature

wu.meng@ubc.ca

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Meng Wu

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Wu Meng is a sessional lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. A specialist in modern Chinese literature, she is a published literary critic and translator. Her doctoral dissertation, “Time Self-Consciousness in Contemporary Chinese Fiction,” explores h...Read more

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Michiko Suzuki

Michiko Suzuki

Lecturer | Japanese Language

michiko.suzuki@ubc.ca

604 822 5511

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Michiko Suzuki

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Major Research Interests: Japanese linguistics, Japanese pedagogy

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Minami Orihara

Minami Orihara

Sessional Lecturer | Early Modern Japanese History

minami.orihara@ubc.ca

Minami Orihara

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Mingzhu Lu

Mingzhu Lu

Lecturer | Chinese Language | On PD leave from Sept. 2022 to Dec. 2022

mingzhu.lu@ubc.ca

604 822 6583

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Mingzhu Lu

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On professional development leave from September 2022 to December 2022 Working years at UBC: 1999 - present Courses taught: Basic Chinese language courses (for both non-heritage and heritage students) Business Chinese (for heritage students - advanced level) Adv...Read more

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Misuzu Kazama

Misuzu Kazama

Lecturer | Japanese Language

misuzu.kazama@ubc.ca

604 822 5362

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Misuzu Kazama

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Major Research Interests: Second language acquisition, Japanese phonetics, and critical literature analysis on Japanese modern literatures

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mostafa.abedinifard@ubc.ca

Mostafa Abedinifard

Mostafa Abedinifard

Assistant Professor | Modern Persian Literature and Culture

604 822 4710

C.K. Choi 172

Mostafa Abedinifard

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Dr. Mostafa Abedinifard is Assistant Professor of Modern Persian Literature and Culture in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, where he has been organizing the Alireza Ahmadian Lectures in Iranian and Persianate Studies since 2018. Dr. Abedinifard holds a PhD in Co...Read more

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Nam-lin Hur

Nam-lin Hur

Professor | History of Japan and Religious Culture

namlin.hur@ubc.ca

604 822 5191

Asian Centre 213

Nam-lin Hur

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Professor Professor Nam-lin Hur teaches premodern Japanese history, Korean-Japanese relations, and Chosŏn Korea in the Department of Asian Studies and conducts research on foreign relations, religion, and society in premodern Japan and Korea. His current monograph projects involve “Jap...Read more

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Naveena Naqvi

Naveena Naqvi

Assistant Professor | Persianate Islamic Cultures of South Asia

naveena.naqvi@ubc.ca

Asian Centre 409

Naveena Naqvi

I am a historian of early modern and modern South Asia. My research interests include the Persianate world (ca. 13th-19th centuries), with a focus on non-courtly writers in regional contexts under early colonial rule. My broader fields of interest span the history of political Islam, gender and sexu...Read more

Nesrine Basheer

Nesrine Basheer

Assistant Professor of Teaching | Arabic

nesrine.basheer@ubc.ca

Nesrine Basheer

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Arabic

Nesrine Basheer is an applied linguist and a specialist in teaching Arabic as a foreign language (TAFL). Her research interests include the teaching and assessment of writing and the multidialectal approach to teaching Arabic. Nesrine has taught Arabic at the American University in Cairo, the United...Read more

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Arabic

Nick Hall

Nick Hall

Lecturer | Japanese Language

nick.hall@ubc.ca

604 827 4075

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Noriyuki Kawada

Noriyuki Kawada

Lecturer | Japanese Language

noriyuki.kawada@ubc.ca

604 822 8495

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Noriyuki Kawada

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Office hours: Mondays 12:00-13:50 Thursdays 11:00-12:00 I have been engaging in Japanese language education since 2012 and had taught in China and Hawai’i before UBC, teaching Japanese as a foreign/second language as well as Japanese business/academic skills. Also, I taught Japanese as a ...Read more

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Peter Nosco

Peter Nosco

Professor | Japanese History and Culture

pnosco@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 5197

Asian Centre 610

Peter Nosco

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Current Activities Individuality in Early Modern Japan Thinking for Oneself From Renaissance Quarterly 72:2 (Summer 2019), pp. 644-45. In this welcome addition to the revisionist scholarship on the history of premodern Japan, Nosco analyzes the development of individuality in early modern...Read more

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Pihua Lin

Pihua Lin

Lecturer | Chinese Language

pihua.lin@ubc.ca

604 827 3268

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Pihua Lin

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Pihua Lin first started teaching Chinese at UBC as a visiting lecturer in 2016, and she is now a lecturer as of 2018. Before teaching Chinese at UBC, she received a M.A. Degree in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University. Then, she became a full-time Mandarin instru...Read more

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Qian Wang

Qian Wang

Chinese Language Program Director | Associate Professor of Teaching | Chinese Linguistics

qian.wang@ubc.ca

604 827 3450

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Qian Wang

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Dr. Wang, the Director of the Chinese Language Program at Asian Studies, teaches Mandarin Chinese language courses at UBC. Her Chinese name is 王蒨, which has two parts: WANG, which is her family name meaning king, and Qian, her given name, representing a type of grass that can survive a cold wint...Read more

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Raymond Pai

Raymond Pai

Lecturer | Cantonese Language

raymond.pai@ubc.ca

604 822 4131

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Raymond Pai

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Raymond Pai is a Lecturer and the Director of the Cantonese Language Program at the University of British Columbia. He is also a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada-funded PhD candidate in the UBC Department of Language and Literacy Education. He teaches all levels of Cant...Read more

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Rebecca Chau

Rebecca Chau

Associate Professor of Teaching | Japanese Language Program Director | Japanese Linguistics

rchau@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 9029

Asian Centre 215

Rebecca Chau

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Associate Professor of Teaching and Director of Japanese Language Program Educational Background Ph.D. (University of Tsukuba) – Linguistics M.A. (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) – Japanese linguistics Courses taught Japanese language courses at all levels. Research Interests Jap...Read more

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Renren Yang

Renren Yang

Assistant Professor | Modern Chinese Popular Culture

renren.yang@ubc.ca

C.K. Choi #179 1855 West Mall

Renren Yang

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Renren Yang’s research and teaching span twentieth-and twenty-first-century Chinese literature, cinema, and popular culture, with a focus on issues of authorship, mediation, and hybrid genres in Chinese literary and media scenes. His current book project, "A Media Genealogy of Literary Fame in Mod...Read more

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Ross King

Ross King

Professor | Korean Language and Literature | On study leave from July 2022 to June 2023

ross.king@ubc.ca

604 822 2835

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Ross King

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On study leave from July 2022 to June 2023 Major Research Interests: 1) History of language, writing and literary culture in the Sinographic cultural sphere, with a specific focus on medieval Korea and the interplay of cosmopolitan and vernacular in other regions of the Sinographic...Read more

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Rumee Ahmed

Rumee Ahmed

Canada Research Chair in Theology and Ethics | Professor of Islamic Law

rumee.ahmed@ubc.ca

604 822 6701

C.K. Choi #173

Rumee Ahmed

Rumee Ahmed (PhD, University of Virginia) is the Canada Research Chair in Theology and Ethics and Professor of Islamic Law at the University of British Columbia. His writing and research span religion, law, theology, philosophy, and public policy. He is the author of Sharia Compliant: A User’s ...Read more

Sharalyn Orbaugh

Sharalyn Orbaugh

Department Head | Professor | Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture

sharalyn.orbaugh@ubc.ca

604 822 5132

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Sharalyn Orbaugh

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Department Head, Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture Associate, Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice Education: PhD in Far Eastern Languages and Literatures, University of Michigan, 1989

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Sheni (Hsueh-Ni) Chen

Sheni (Hsueh-Ni) Chen

Lecturer | Chinese | On leave from August 2022 to May 2023

sheni@mail.ubc.ca

604 827 4038

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Sheni (Hsueh-Ni) Chen

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On leave from August 2022 to May 2023 Sheni Chen received her Ph.D. from National Taiwan Normal University, majoring in Teaching Chinese as a Second Language. Her thesis topic was “A study on the Training of Volunteer Chinese Teachers for Overseas Chinese School.” This study of teache...Read more

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Shuyu Li

Shuyu Li

Sessional Lecturer | Chinese Language

shuyu.li@ubc.ca

Shuyu Li

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I graduated from the University of Hong Kong and the Education University of Hong Kong, where I received an MA degree in Teaching Chinese as an International Language. Before coming to Canada, I taught Mandarin at Hong Kong’s international schools and led a short-term Chinese program at the Fontys...Read more

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Sonam Chusang

Sonam Chusang

Adjunct Professor | Tibetan

sonam.chusang@ubc.ca

604 446 8705

Jack Bell Building 135

Sonam Chusang

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Sonam Chusang is the lecturer in the Tibetan language at the University of British Columbia, and taught Intensive Tibetan language course with community engagement programs in the past 3 summers. In the summer of 2007, Sonam also taught Tibetan at the University of Virginia. Sonam has been teachi...Read more

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Su-Anne Yeo

Su-Anne Yeo

Sessional Lecturer

suanne.yeo@ubc.ca

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Su-Anne Yeo

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Su-Anne Yeo researches and teaches in the areas of film studies, media studies, and cultural studies, with a specialization in Asian and Asian diasporic screen cultures. She completed a PhD in Media and Communications under the supervision of Professor Chris Berry at Goldsmiths, University of London...Read more

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Sunera Thobani

Sunera Thobani

Professor | Department of Asian Studies

sunera.thobani@ubc.ca

C.K. Choi 177

Sunera Thobani

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I am a Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. My scholarship is located at the intersection of the Social Sciences and Humanities. I study and work on critical race, postcolonial, transnational and feminist theory; South Asian women's, gender and sexualit...Read more

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Sunil Bhatt

Sunil Bhatt

Assistant Professor of Teaching | Hindi-Urdu

sunil.bhatt@ubc.ca

604 827 5950

C.K. Choi 178

Sunil Bhatt

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Hindi-Urdu

I am a linguist who has experienced foreign/second language learning from both sides of the classroom. As a student I learnt Russian and Croatian, and as an educator I got the opportunity to teach Hindi and Hindi-Urdu. Learning foreign languages has given me opportunity to experience the process of ...Read more

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Hindi-Urdu

Tae Yeon Eom

Tae Yeon Eom

Sessional Lecturer | East Asian Culture

taeeom@mail.ubc.ca

Tae Yeon Eom

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Tae Yeon Eom is currently completing a Ph.D. at the University of British Columbia in Asian Studies. Through the lens of Western and non-Western diplomatic norms and practices in modern East Asia, his dissertation research triggers deeper considerations about the interweaving of words, acts and thin...Read more

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Tsering Shakya

Tsering Shakya

Associate Professor | Religion and Contemporary Society in Asia

tshakya@mail.ubc.ca

604 822 2968

Institute of Asian Research, CK Choi 281

Tsering Shakya

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Canada Research Chair in Religion and Contemporary Society in Asia Institute of Asian Research University of British Columbia 1855 West Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V6T 1Z2 Office: Room 281, C.K. Choi Building Tel: 604-822-2968 E-mail: tshakya@exchange.ubc.ca ...Read more

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Xiangjun (Sean) Feng

Xiangjun (Sean) Feng

SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow | Early Modern and Modern Chinese Literature

sean.feng@ubc.ca

Xiangjun (Sean) Feng

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Xiangjun “Sean” Feng 馮相郡 received his Ph.D. from the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley, in 2021. His dissertation, Secret Scroll: The Production of Occult Knowledge in China’s Age of Print, untangles what he calls “the paradox of secrecy in the age of print�...Read more

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Xiaowen Xu

Xiaowen Xu

Assistant Professor of Teaching | Chinese Applied Linguistics

xiaowen.xu@ubc.ca

Asian Centre Room 219

Xiaowen Xu

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Ph.D., East Asian Studies, University of Toronto (2014) Ph.D., English, Beijing Foreign Studies University (1997) M.A., English, Shandong University (1994) B.A., English, Shandong University (1991) RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS Dr. Xu teaches courses on Chinese language, literature, and...Read more

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Xinxin Wu

Xinxin Wu

Lecturer | Chinese Language and Literature

xinxin.wu@ubc.ca

604 822 6583

Auditorium Annex B 215

Xinxin Wu

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Xinxin Wu is a lecturer of Chinese language and literature in the Department of Asian Studies at UBC. She is in charge of Chinese Placement Advising. She has taught Chinese language and literature at universities in China, the United States, and Canada. She served as an associate professor an...Read more

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Xueshun Liu

Xueshun Liu

Lecturer | Chinese Language

xliu@mail.ubc.ca

604 827 3268

Auditorium Annex B 213

Xueshun Liu

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Upon graduating from the Anyang Normal College Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Xueshun Liu pursued further studies at Zhengzhou University (M.A.) and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (Ph.D.) in Beijing. A Harvard-Yenching visiting fellow in 1996-7 and UC Berkeley Center for Chin...Read more

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Yasuko Matsumoto

Yasuko Matsumoto

Lecturer | Japanese Language

yasuko.matsumoto@ubc.ca

Yasuko Matsumoto

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My teaching career started at Williams College as a language fellow. After that, I taught at several different institutions in the U.S. and Japan. Before coming to UBC, I taught at Stanford University for three years. I will be teaching first and second year Japanese language courses at UBC as of Se...Read more

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Yi Chen

Yi Chen

Visiting Lecturer | Chinese Language

norris.chen@ubc.ca

Yi Chen

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I am teaching Chinese at UBC as a visiting lecturer of Chinese as of September 1, 2021. I teach non-heritage Chinese and heritage Chinese courses. I went to Western Kentucky University in the United States to teach Chinese during the academic year of 2016-17 and headed for Thailand to teach Chinese ...Read more

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Yi-Yi Chen

Yi-Yi Chen

Visiting Lecturer | Chinese

yi-yi.chen@ubc.ca

Yi-Yi Chen

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Chen, Yi-Yi is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. Her dissertation research focuses on Canadian Chinese literature works. Her master's thesis, “The Homeland Consciousness in Overseas Chinese Fictions of North America,” explores how works...Read more

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Yuchun Peng

Yuchun Peng

Visiting Lecturer | Chinese Language

yuchun.peng@ubc.ca

Yuchun Peng

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Instructor Peng Yu-Chun has a diverse background in teaching. Having taught in both the United States and Taiwan, instructor Peng has over 10 years of Mandarin teaching experience under her belt. She hopes that her students will gain a sense of accomplishment and satisfaction after taking her classe...Read more

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Yuki Ohsawa

Yuki Ohsawa

Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow | Japanese Visual Culture and Modern Literature

yuki.ohsawa@ubc.ca

Jack Bell Building 136

Yuki Ohsawa

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Specialty: Japanese Visual Culture and Modern Literature Course: ASIA 326 Critical Approaches to Manga and Anime

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Zheng Cai

Zheng Cai

Lecturer | Chinese Language and Literature

zheng.cai@ubc.ca

604 822 8574

Auditorium Annex B 217

Zheng Cai

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Zheng (Tim) Cai received his M.A. in East Asian Studies and Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of Alberta. His research interests include Chinese literature, literary theory, Chinese intellectual and cultural history, Chinese art history, comparative poetics, and world literature. B...Read more

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Zoe Lam

Zoe Lam

Lecturer | Cantonese Language

zoe.lam@ubc.ca

604 822 4131

Auditorium Annex B 211

Zoe Lam

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Zoe Lam teaches Cantonese language courses at UBC Asian Studies. Please visit https://blogs.ubc.ca/zoelam/ to learn more about her work.

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