• 2024/25 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture: Journey into Exile: The Rare Books of the National Peiping Library, 1933–1941

    Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    On Apr. 10, join Professor Sophie Volpp (University of California, Berkeley) as she investigates the context behind and implications of rare books from the National Library of China being sent to the United States in 1941 through published and unpublished archival documents.

    Free
  • Research Seminar: Why Should We Care About Literary Objects?

    Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Rethink the conceptions of verisimilitude as well as mimetic illusion with Professor Sophie Volpp (University of California, Berkeley) as she examines scenic illusion paintings of the Forbidden City through the lens of perspectivalism in Cao Xueqin’s mid-eighteenth-century novel The Story of the Stone.

    Free
  • The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium

    The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium

    Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium will be focused on the metaphors and concepts of possession and dispossession. While we speak of various kinds of “possession”—spirit possession, drug possession, weapons possession—“dispossession” is used mostly in terms of property, and especially land under colonialism. The term also evokes the difference between possession and ownership. But what […]

    Free
  • The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium

    The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium

    Asian Centre 1871 West Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    The 9th Annual Hasekura International Symposium will be focused on the metaphors and concepts of possession and dispossession. While we speak of various kinds of “possession”—spirit possession, drug possession, weapons possession—“dispossession” is used mostly in terms of property, and especially land under colonialism. The term also evokes the difference between possession and ownership. But what […]

    Free
  • Screening of GOLDEN GATE GIRLS Documentary

    The Norm Theatre 6138 Student Union Blvd, Vancouver, BC

    GOLDEN GATE GIRLS, directed by S. Louisa Wei, is the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent women director in Hong Kong in the 1930s. A San Francisco native and open lesbian, her contribution to film history is sadly overlooked and most of […]

  • Screening of GOLDEN GATE GIRLS Documentary

    The Norm Theatre 6138 Student Union Blvd, Vancouver, BC

    GOLDEN GATE GIRLS, directed by S. Louisa Wei, is the story of filmmaker Esther Eng, the first woman to direct Chinese-language film in the US, and the most prominent women director in Hong Kong in the 1930s. A San Francisco native and open lesbian, her contribution to film history is sadly overlooked and most of […]