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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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The Age of Irreverence at UBC Bookstore
18th Oct 2018
With Dr. Christopher Rea Modern China’s Humour Revolution 誰是”破夜壺室主”? 哪些民國暢銷作家自稱是”賣笑維生”? 軍閥時期的”放屁主義”從何而起? “幽默”如何成為我們今天的慣用語? 來聽UBC教授雷勤風介紹他獲漢學研究至高榮譽”列文森大獎”的力作——《大不敬的年代：近代中國新笑史》(台北:麥田, 2018)。中英文活動 China’s entry into the modern age was not just traumatic but uproarious. As the Qing dynasty collapsed, joke books boomed. As warlords fought, writers competed to sling the funniest insult. “Humour” (youmo) became a household word. Come hear UBC professor Christopher Rea talk about how...
[Seminar] A City Lost or Found? Sketching Hong Kong’s History of the Present
18th Oct 2018
With Prof. Ching Kwan Lee (University of California, Los Angeles) Free and open to the public Registration required. In recent years, political turmoil and popular revolt have engulfed Hong Kong in a broad struggle to preserve its foundational institutions and core values. While many observers and activists fear for the permanent loss of Hong Kong as a...
Scattered Sources, Intertwined Histories: Trade Networks and Consumption between Qing China and Imperial Spain across the Pacific (1580-1760)
18th Oct 2018
Part of the 2018 One Asia Forum Talk Series With Professor Manuel Perez Garcia (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Abstract: Global history is being renewed over the past years through concrete case studies. Formerly the pioneers of the field such as Braudel, Wallerstein, Gunder Frank and the California School scholars, among others, had undertaken ambitious research projects with...
“Teaching the Asian Book”: How and Why to Teach a Collaborative Course on An Unwieldy Region
23rd Oct 2018
With: Dr. Christina Laffin, Dr. Bruce Rusk, Dr. Adheesh Sathaye The written word is an essential source for our study of the past, yet it is easy to forget that it always took a material form that determined how it existed in the world and how people interacted with it. In this presentation, three faculty members...

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North American Taiwan Studies Association 2019 Annual Conference

The 25th North American Taiwan Studies Association 2019 Annual Conference will be held on May 16-18th at the University of Washington, Seattle. This conference invites and encourages studies related to Taiwan in all disciplines, and will invite panels that compare Taiwan, or any aspect of Taiwan, with findings from other regions to engage in a […]

Seeking Study Participants to Participate in a Project about Online Dating in Canada

A project about online dating in Canada, with a special emphasis on online dating experiences of Chinese immigrants and native-born Canadians, is looking for study participants. If you have any online dating experience and are interested to join, please email yue.qian@ubc.ca.

UBC China Studies Forum

UBC China Studies Forum contains regular series of meetings and talks for the UBC China studies community, offering opportunity for conversation as well as presentations. The forum is made up of three research groups: China in the World, China&, and China Environmental Science and Sustainability Research Group (CESS). Events List: September 12, 2018: Fires in […]

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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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