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The Centre for Chinese Research (CCR) supports and disseminates research on China and the Chinese-speaking world. Located within the Institute of Asian Research, the CCR serves multiple constituencies, including UBC scholars and students, the field of Chinese studies, and the general public. In addition to facilitating coordination between researchers in different UBC departments and units, the CCR hosts visitors, sponsors academic conferences and seminars, and maintains an active program of public events.

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[Off campus]Imagining Hong Kong Beyond the Umbrella Movement
24th Mar 2019
Community Forum Sunday, 24 March 2019, 2:30 pm Imagining Hong Kong Beyond the Umbrella Movement 傘後、本土、民主：對香港未來想像的異同 With Alex Chow and Prof. Tai-lok Lui Performance Hall, Richmond Cultural Centre 7700 Minoru Gate, Richmond Free and open to the public (Program in Cantonese 粵語講座 with simultaneous tweeting) The Umbrella Movement of 2014 was a major milestone...
Hong Kong in the Age of the Chinese Dream
25th Mar 2019
Hong Kong Studies Dialogue Monday, 25 March 2019, 5:30 pm With Alex Chow and Prof. Tai-lok Lui Aquatic Ecosystems Research Lab 120, UBC 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver Free and open to the public Since the handover in 1997, despite—or because of—the promise of “One Country, Two Systems,” ties between Hong Kong and mainland China...
Social Responsibility, Development and the Weaponization of Values in a Chinese Century
29th Mar 2019
With Dr. Robert Hanlon (Assistant Professor, Thompson Rivers University) Social responsibility is becoming increasing political and is shaping how China’s foreign policy architects court an increasingly fractured liberal order. In an era where the United States’ commitment to multilateralism is wavering, prominent thinkers are now asking whether global power dynamics are shifting to Asia. Donald...
Sufism in China: Menhuan, Han kitāb, and Belonging
1st Apr 2019
With Dr. Jonathan Lipman (Professor Emeritus of History, Mount Holyoke College) Over the past millennium, Sufism—usually glossed as “Islamic mysticism”—has evolved to pervade the Islamic world. Even scholars who became anti-Sufis, such as 18th century Arab religious reformer Muhammad ibn ‘Abd al-Wahhab, studied Sufism deeply. Some manifestations of Sufism have been primarily theological and intellectual,...

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2019 Mosaic Taiwan Fellowship Exchange Program

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of China (Taiwan) announced the 2019 Mosaic Taiwan Fellowship Program recently. This 10-day long exchange program provides US and Canadian students and professionals a wonderful opportunity to explore Taiwan through workshops, lectures, historic site visits and extensive cultural activities from June 10 through June 21, 2019. (Please […]

臺灣師範大學華語文教學系2019年海外華語師資數位碩士在職專班招生

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Scholarships for Canadian academics, students and professionals

Scholarships for Canadian academics, students and professionals: Canada-China Scholars’ Exchange Program, 2019-2020 Global Affairs Canada and the Chinese Ministry of Education are offering short-term scholarships to Canadians wishing to study abroad in China. Scholarships are awarded for studies, research, language studies or a combination of studies and language studies at participating Chinese institutions. Program name: Canada-China […]

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[Webcast] The Challenge of World Literary History

In much of its history from the 19th century to the last decade of the 20th, comparative literature remains largely Euro-centered, and the rise of world literature today offers an opportunity to transcend Eurocentrism and introduce many of the yet unknown canonical works from non-Western and “minor” European literature to a global readership. We need a […]

[Photo] The Hard Work of Feeding the Baby: Breastfeeding and Intensive Mothering in Contemporary Urban China

In this talk, Dr. Hanser described an emerging culture of intensive mothering among middle-class, urban Chinese women that focuses on infant feeding. Based upon interviews with new mothers in urban Shanghai, she described the intense efforts and commitment by these women to provide their babies with breast milk and described the complexities of their attempts […]

[Webcast] Outlook for China’s Environment? What do the Environmental Kuznets Curve and the Experiences of Other East Asian Countries Tell Us

The talk used a wide range of historical statistics to classify these problems according to a heuristic “solvability index” based on the biophysical and sociopolitical tractability of these problems, as well as on the histories of how they have been addressed in countries that have faced them earlier: Japan, Taiwan, and the Republic of Korea. In […]

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