Xin Liu received Canada-China Initiatives Fund support in 2020 for his master’s project, ‘Upstream’, a 20-minute docufiction film that explores the identity struggle of Chinese Permanent Residents in Canada and their immutable yearnings to return home. In summer 2020, he drove to British Columbia to document the schools of salmon that find their way back […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, Yukari Takai (History) examines the marriage and divorce practices among Japanese issei women and men in Hawai‘i from the 1880s to the 1910s. She focuses on three practices that are difficult to capture and previously little-studied: temporary marriage or karifūfu, wife sale and wife brokerage. Through her research she […]
YCAR offers or adjudicates nine awards to graduate students at York University on an annual basis. In 2020, 21 students received over $40,000 in support of their research, fieldwork and language studies. In each Update over the summer, we will introduce the 2020 winners. In this issue, we congratulate Heather Evans (Gender, Feminist and Women’s […]
In this latest Asia Research Brief, York Alumni and YCAR External Associates Laura Schoenberger (Banting Fellow, University of Ottawa) and Vanessa Lamb (Geography, University of Melbourne), along with co-writer Alice Beban (Sociology, Massey University), examine trends in authoritarian populism by examining the crackdown on the Cambodian free press. Their study focuses on Cambodia’s crackdown on […]
Rajat Nayyar‘s (Theatre & Performance Studies) proposed dissertation is titled “Women’s Vocality, Radical Sociality: Re-Imagining Power, Folklore & Audiovisual Ethnography in Rural North India,” and looks at North India from the nineteenth century onward, when forms of women’s entertainment attracted the attention of British colonial lawmakers, upper-caste social reformers, Hindu nationalists, revivalists, and an emerging middle […]
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YCAR is pleased to partner with the Emergent Futures CoLab, a laboratory for transdisciplinary experimentation and collaborative future-making. The collective of scholars and artists work on activist, speculative and future-oriented projects. They are actively seeking members, speakers and advisors. If you are interested, please reach out to them via Facebook or their website. This transnational […]
The York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR) recently received a $500,000 donation from the Honourable Dr Vivienne Poy to create an endowment to support student engagement in Hakka research and scholarship. This generous gift plants a seed for the growth of a Hakka Scholars Network to develop Hakka research and scholarship at York University and […]
Research Associate Colin McGuire was interviewed by Paul Bowman (Cardiff University) on Irish stick-fighting, Bruce Lee’s musicality, and Chinese Lion Dances for a Martial Arts Studies podcast. A summary of the podcast and a link to watch the interview are available here: https://colinpatrickmcguire.com/2020/05/09/interview-martial-arts-studies-podcast/.
The Marxist Studies in a Global and Asian Perspective (MSGAP) blog—York Left Consortium: Reflections on Capitalism’s Half-Life—serves as an accessible location for written interventions of various sorts relating to COVID-19 virus and its aftermath (from short blog posts to longer thought pieces and speculations) on the part of leftist faculty and grad students at York University […]