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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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“Technologies of ‘Reeducation’: International Implications of Turkic Muslim Surveillance, Internment and Labor in Northwest China”
25th Nov 2019
ABSTRACT A new system of control, made up of a multi-billion dollar industry of computer-vision technologies, militarized policing, and the mass mobilization of Chinese civil servants and Han industrialists, is attempting to transform Uyghur and other Turkic minority societies in Northwest China. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the Uyghur Autonomous Region, this talk describes the...
INFRASTRUCTURES OF OCCUPATION: DAMS, DEVELOPMENT, AND THE POLITICS OF INTEGRATION IN KASHMIR
25th Nov 2019
Dr. Mona Bhan, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Syracuse University, will be giving a talk that analyzes the relationship between dam building, border wars, and India’s settler colonial politics in Kashmir, particularly in the aftermath of the removal of Articles 370 and 35A that maintained Kashmir’s semi-autonomous status in the Indian union. Dr. Bhan will...
The Last Gasp of the Little Ice Age & Fiscal Reform in Qing Mongolia (1823-1838)
27th Nov 2019
Sam H. Bass PhD Candidate, Departments of History and Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University ABSTRACT The Mongolian nobility, the descendants of Chinggis Khan, enjoyed exemptions from tax and compulsory labor during the Qing dynasty (1691-1911) until the mid-nineteenth century, when those privileges diminished. Scholars have correlated this...
BOOK LAUNCH: Jessica Hanser – Mr Smith Goes to China: Three Scots in the Making of Britain’s Global Empire
29th Nov 2019
An illuminating account of global commerce in the eighteenth-century Indian Ocean world as seen through the lives of three Scottish traders This book delves into the lives of three Scottish private traders—George Smith of Bombay, George Smith of Canton, and George Smith of Madras—and uses them as...

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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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