The 2010 Asia Lecture, 40 Years with China: From the Establishment of Diplomatic Relations in 1970 to the Present Day, will examine four decades of diplomatic relations between Canada and China. York political science Professor Emeritus Bernie Michael Frolic, of the Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, will deliver the lecture Tuesday, Sept. 21, from […]
An International Symposium on Chinese Canadian Literature at York this week will introduce Chinese Canadian writers and their works to readers, writers and researchers from China and elsewhere. This international symposium aims to facilitate the exchange of ideas on Chinese Canadian literature, review and define the parameters of the research field and promote a robust […]
On air Professor Gregory Chin, a senior fellow at the Centre for International Governance Innovation and a political scientist in York's Faculty of Liberal Arts & Professional Studies, took part in a panel discussion about China’s growing economic power in the world, on TVO’s “The Agenda” July 19.
Six York students have won five awards for their research on Asia or Asian diaspora this year from the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR). Vanessa Lamb (right), a second-year doctoral candidate in geography, is the 2010 Vivienne Poy Asian Research Award recipient. Her research interests include the politics of the environment and development, feminist political ecology […]
The 10-storey York Research Tower provides new facilities purposely designed to help graduate students be more effective researchers on floors six, seven and eight. Professor Susan Henders, director of the York Centre for Asian Research, spoke about the new facilities during a recent research celebration. Her remarks are available on the Research Web site's multimedia […]
Researchers, faculty, administrators and staff working in the York Research Tower gathered on May 4 to celebrate the new building’s role in fostering social science and humanities research across York University (all speaker videos are available in the Research Multimedia Centre). Above: The York Research Tower, which opened in September 2009, features some 84,000 square feet […]
Acclaimed author Wayson Choy will deliver this year’s Asian Heritage Month Lecture at York next Tuesday. In his lecture, “Asian Identity: Becoming Canadian”, Choy will review his personal insights into life as an in-between citizen, living as a hyphenated Chinese-Canadian for most of his life. Choy – born in Canada in 1939 – will explore how […]
Interest in China is strong, and scholars and students alike continue to be intrigued by the country, whether viewing it through the lens of the past two or 2,000 years. That intrigue proved evident on Thursday, Jan. 28, when a record 110 people crowded into a room in York Lanes for the Faculty of Liberal Arts […]
With any kind of catastrophe, such as the recent earthquake in Haiti, helping victims cope and figuring out what to do differently in the future can take years. This is something York social work Professor Renita Wong knows a thing or two about. Following the 2008 8.0-magnitude earthquake in the Sichuan province of China, Wong has […]