The Department of Asian Studies is excited to invite you to our annual Welcome Back Night on September 19! Whether you’re brand new to UBC or returning for another year, come celebrate Asian cultures and languages and learn more about the Asian Studies programs. You’ll get the chance to meet our faculty and staff, and mingle […]
Cave of the Silken Web (Pan si dong; Dan Duyu, dir., 1937) is a silent feature film adapted from an episode in the Ming-dynasty novel Journey to the West in which the monk Tripitaka is kidnapped and held prisoner in a cave of spider women. Will his traveling companions the Monkey King, Pigsy, and Sandy […]
Join the CMS Mobilities Research Group and UBC Asian Studies for “Why Do Chinese Women Seek Western Men? The Case of China’s Email-Order Brides” with Dr. Monica Liu. Join our invited speaker or a roundtable discussion on Wednesday, November 27, from 2:00 to 3:00 PM in ANSO 119. Dr. Liu, author of Seeking Western Men: Email-Order Brides […]
The UBC Indigenous Science Colloquium presents a conversation with Dr. Salena Hill, a member of the Apsáalooke (Crow) and Amaskapi Pikuni (Blackfeet) Tribal Nations and Assistant Professor in the Doctoral Program of Leadership Studies. She holds a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and Supervision from the University of Montana. Rooted in Indigenous philosophies, her work emphasizes […]
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of rare books from the National Library of China being sent to the United States in 1941 through published and unpublished archival documents.
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.
