Summer 2022 recipients of Canada-China Initiative Funding
02-11-2022
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...
Videos | Crossing the Bridge Mackay Built: 150 years of Canada in East Asia and East Asia in Canada
01-11-2022
In June of 2022 a virtual symposium was held celebrating the connections built by George Leslie Mackay. Crossing the Bridge Mackay Built: 150 years of Canada in East Asia and...
YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship: The Structural Determinants of Urbanization in India and China
13-09-2022
We are pleased to welcome Paramjit Singh to YCAR. Together with Cary Wu (Sociology), the pair are recipients of a YCAR Research Collaboration Fellowship. Their joint project looks at the...
Echo from the Archipelago: Connecting Indonesia and Canada through Traditional Music by Exploring Collective Memories in Canada
29-08-2022
The Echo from the Archipelago: Connecting Indonesia and Canada through Traditional Music by Exploring Collective Memories in Canada workshop was designed to develop a bridge between Indonesia and Canada through music...
Canada and China: A Fifty-Year Journey (New Book)
26-08-2022
Congratulations to B. Michael Frolic] (ABMP and Professor Emeritus, Politics) on the publication of his long-awaited new book, Canada and China: A Fifty-Year Journey (University of Toronto 2022). The book launch is...
Human Rights, Forced Labour and Sustainability in Global Fisheries: A Potential Canadian Contribution to Enhancing Decent Work in Fishing
24-08-2022
Faculty Associate Peter Vandergeest (Geography) co-authored a report released this summer that considers potential Canadian contributions to enhancing decent work in fishing. Commissioned by Oceana Canada, it draws from Vandergest’s...
Turning Land into Capital: Development and Dispossession in the Mekong Region (New Book)
22-08-2022
Faculty Associate Nga Dao (Social Science) and Research Associate Vanessa Lamb (University of Melbourne) have authored chapters in a long-anticipated edited collection on development and dispossession in the Mekong Region....
India’s Textile & Pharmaceutical Industries (New Book)
19-07-2022
Congratulations to Faculty Associate Preet Aulakh (Schulich School of Business) who is co-author with Raveendra Chittoor (University of Victoria) of a new book, Coping with Global Institutional Change: A Tale...
*Site under (re)construction*
21-06-2022
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...
Upcoming symposium explores 150 years of Canada-Asia relations
17-06-2022
Crossing the Bridge Mackay Built: 150 years of Canada in East Asia and East Asia in Canada International Symposium will take place virtually on June 23 and 24. On March...
