The Department of Asian Studies offers programs of study that lead to degrees in the Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts and a Ph.D. Our programs offer students the opportunity to learn about the impact of Asian cultures and develop their linguistic competencies in up to nine Asian languages.

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

 
The 2021 UBC Lantern Festival Poetry Event, the fourth annual extracurricular event organized by the Chinese Language Program, is drawing to a successful conclusion on April 9, 2021. The Covid-19 challenges restricted the event to Canvas

Meet Our Students – Sai Diwan

 
Meet Sai Diwan, a current PhD candidate in the Department of Asian Studies.

Asian Studies scholars presented at 2021 Association for Asian Studies Conference

 
The Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference took place online March 21–26, 2021. Eighteen Department of Asian Studies scholars presented out of a total of thirty UBC presenters. 
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Chinese Language Program Event Recap – 2021 UBC Lantern Festival Poetry Event

April 8, 2021

Meet Our Students – Sai Diwan

April 6, 2021

Asian Studies scholars presented at 2021 Association for Asian Studies Conference

March 23, 2021
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Events

Literature Against Propaganda: Counter Discourse and Symbolic Resistance in Iran-Iraq War Fiction

April 24, 2021
4:00 pm
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The Biography of Nangsa Oebum Tibetan Reading Group

April 26, 2021
7:00 pm

Women and Power in Persian Literature: Story reading with Shahrnush Parsipur

April 30, 2021
4:00 pm
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