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 scheduled for Fall 2022. Description: Presenting a thorough record of Canada’s diplomatic ties with China, Canada and China recounts ten stories regarding China policy decisions […]
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 SSHRC-funded research for the Work at Sea project. Co-author Melissa Marschke is also the grant’s co-investigator along with third author Trevor Swerdfager, a Practitioner-in-Residence at […]
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. The book examines the contradictions produced by superimposing twenty-first-century neoliberal projects onto diverse landscapes etched by decades of war and state socialism. Its chapter explore […]
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 of India’s Textile and Pharmaceutical Industries (Cambridge 2022). Book Description: Increased governance of international trade through supra-national institutions such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) […]
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 9, 1872, George Leslie Mackay arrived in Taiwan as a missionary for The Presbyterian Church in Canada. This year marks the celebration of 150 years […]
From designing lipstick packaging to a horror movie title sequence, the creativity of young Asian Canadians was brought together in a diverse, virtual exhibition organized in celebration of Asian Heritage Month in May. The virtual show, Embracing Young Asian Canadians’ Talent, featured the work of young designers of Asian descent who live in the Greater […]
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 […]
*this article was originally published on 5 May 2022 by the Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. This year, the York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) marks a significant milestone: its 20th anniversary! YCAR was launched in 2002 to support and promote research that bring a multi-disciplinary perspective to the study of Asia (and its component nations) […]
In our latest Asia Research Brief, D. Mitra Barua (YCAR External Associate) shares his work on Bengali-speaking Buddhists found in India, Bangladesh and Myanmar. He suggests that their collective identity is dialogical, particularly because it is a minority group. He illustrates and explains how this ethno-religious minority had to negotiate their collective identity with their […]
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 […]