Opportunity | Canada-China Initiatives Fund | Deadline: Jan. 22

YCAR invites applications from York University faculty and graduate students for the Canada-China Initiatives Fund call for proposals. Founded in 2019, the Canada-China Initiatives Fund (CCIF) was created to support scholarly exchanges and research on modern (i.e., post 1911) and contemporary China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan and their global outreach or Canada-China linkages, or […]

root, branch, driftwood workshop series for Tamil-English translators, poets and writers

SERIES 1: Saturdays 11 am-1pm EST | Nov 12, 19, 26 | 2022 SERIES 2: Saturdays 11am-1pm EST | Feb 4, 11, 18 | 2023CELEBRATION: April 2023 with the Tam Fam Lit Jam trace: translating ‘x’ is part of a long-term culturally responsive, strength-based project organized by trace press to address structural and systemic racism within […]

Summer 2022 recipients of Canada-China Initiative Funding

The summer 2022 recipients of Canada-China Initiative Funding engage in a variety of topics, ranging from Chinese Canadian prose fiction to Chinese international students in Canada. Congratulations to the recipients! Monique Attrux (English) received funding for her dissertation project, Writing Chinese: Diasporic Entanglements in Chinese Canadian English Prose Fiction. The project examines language—as a form, theme, […]

*Site under (re)construction*

Welcome to the website for the York Centre for Asian Research. We apologize for its state. Due to a cyber attack, we are in the process of rebuilding the site and thank you for your patience. You can always reach us at ycar@yorku.ca or via Facebook and Twitter (insert needful). We hope to have the […]

Inaugural recipient of Global Hong Kong Essay and Creative Project Award

We are pleased to announce that Ernest Leung is the inaugural recipient of the Global Hong Kong Essay and Creative Project Award. Leung, who is a master’s student in the joint York and Toronto Metropolitan University Communication & Culture program, received the award for his paper, Humour and Political Resistance: Dayo Wong’s Stand-Up Comedy in […]

Opportunity | ABMP is seeking a Project Assistant

The Asian Business and Management Program (ABMP) at York University in Toronto, Canada provides professional development and management training to educators, undergraduate and graduate students as well as senior executives and officials from Asian countries in virtual or blended forums. In the last two decades, ABMP has successfully delivered in Canada and China close to […]

Asia Research Brief #33 | Ang 2017 Okupang Pabahay sa Pilipinas: Isang Kontra-Proyekto para sa Maayos na Pabahay at Alternatibong Mundo

This Asia Research Brief, previously published in English, is now available in a Tagalog translation. Hazel Dizon (Geography) shares her research on a housing occupation by thousands of urban poor near Manila in March 2017 who claimed idle government housing as their own. It examines the impacts of increasingly neoliberal policies and practices on social […]

Modern Potters from Ban Kham Or

Designs on Pots: Ban Chiang and the Politics of Heritage in Thailand (sample page)

Fourth Bernard H. K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies & Hong Kong Beyond Hong Kong symposium [June 2021]

The York Centre for Asian Research is pleased to host the Fourth Bernard H. K. Luk Memorial Lecture in Hong Kong Studies in June 2021 as well as three panels inquiring how Hong Kong as a “distinct society” culturally, politically and economically can sustain moving forward within geographical Hong Kong and beyond. *For details, please […]