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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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Unevenly Distributed: China and the Future of Work in Southeast Asia
27th Sep 2018
2018 UBC CHINA STUDIES FORUM SERIES Speaker: Dr. Stephen J. McGurk Special Advisor to the President Former Vice-President, International Development Research Centre Abstract This presentation reviews the findings of a series of International Development Research Centre papers on the Future of Work. Digitization of ever-more connected and networked value chains permits faster, simpler, and cheaper...
Asian Waters: The Struggle Over the Asia-Pacific & the Strategy of Chinese Expansion
3rd Oct 2018
ABSTRACT In our fast-changing and unpredictable world one thing is certain: Asia is the new center of wealth and power and with that comes opportunity, connectivity and contest. Whether on trade or tension around the Korean peninsula, America and China suspiciously circle each other while many other countries are deciding where their long-term future best...
The Impact of Media Censorship: 1984 or Brave New World?
4th Oct 2018
ABSTRACT Media censorship is a hallmark of authoritarian regimes. We conduct a field experiment in China to measure the effects of providing citizens with access to an uncensored Internet. We track subjects’ media consumption, beliefs regarding the media, economic beliefs, political attitudes, and behaviors over 18 months. We find four main results: (i) free access...
DEVELOPMENTS IN XINJIANG: CONCERNS FOR CANADA AND THE REGION
10th Oct 2018
Please join us for a roundtable discussion on the topic of developments in Xinjiang with – Timothy Cheek – Paul Evans – Graham Fuller – Diana Lary – Kai Oswald – Pitman Potter – Tsering Shakya No RSVP is required.

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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 […]

[Blog] Exploring China’s Conservation Efforts in Yunnan Province

Our Political Science Prof. Yves Tiberghien’s new blog series China’s Frontier Landsare published via the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. The blog series feature the Himalayan regions of China, they recently published the fourth chapter: Exploring China’s Conservation Efforts in Yunnan Province. This chapter is written by Prof. Yves, along with his writer/lecturer wife Yvonne Xiao […]

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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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