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Asian Centre
1871 West Mall
Vancouver, B.C.
Canada V6T 1Z2
Art Exhibition: Trauma, Memory, and the Story of Canada
Date: September 30 – December 3, 2017 Location: Asian Centre (1871 West Mall) (map) Hours: Asian Library open hours (see hours) Visit the art exhibition “Canada at 150+: Trauma, Memory and the Story of Canada” presented by the South Asian Canadian Histories Association from now until early December at UBC, and in the Punjabi Market […]
New Books at the Asian Library (Sep 29, 2017)
INDIC-LANGUAGE MATERIALS PK2099.32 A83 V37 2016 Vāṭsa epa para kṛāṇti : kahānī-saṅgraha / Anurāga Pāṭhaka PK2099.34 S64 W43 2016 Whatsapp: riśte-nātoṃ kī kahāniyām̐ / Raśmi KOREAN-LANGUAGE MATERIALS BL2230 Y525 2016 한국 신화 와 문화 / 이 병찬 DS916.5 Y53 O27 2016 대한 민국 임시 정부 의 정신적 지주 이 동녕 / 한국 독립 운동사 연구소 […]
Celebrate DIWALI with the Asian Library
Join the Asian Library to celebrate Diwali (Festival of Lights)! Wednesday, October 18, 2017 12:00 noon to 1:30 pm Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall Diwali or Deepavali, which means “a row of lights”, is the most widely celebrated annual Indian festival. It marks the victory of good over evil, and the beginning of the […]
From Wenzhou to Vancouver, From Yale to Oxford: Journey of Knowledge Archaeology of a Freelance Writer
With speaker SHEN Jia (沈迦) Date: Wednesday, October 11, 2017 Time: 12:00-1:30 p.m. Venue: Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall Language: Mandarin 以商品经济闻名遐迩的浙江温州，其老城区里有一座百年历史的基督教堂，但教堂创建者的名字及其作为这座城市现代化奠基人的事迹却被有意无意淹埋在波云诡谲的历史里。童年时曾随祖母去这座教堂礼拜的沈迦，大学读了新闻系，毕业后做过记者、编辑、商人，然后在十余年前移民来到了温哥华。在安静的温哥华，他依托近代史料宏富的UBC亚洲图书馆，从童年的家乡记忆出发，通过爬梳档案、田野调查、口述访谈，历时六年，跨越亚欧美三大洲，以知识考古学的方式还原了这位名叫苏慧廉的英国传教士波澜壮阔的一生，及其与中国近代史一咏三叹的关联。 成书于温哥华的《寻找·苏慧廉》2013年在台湾、大陆相继出版后一纸风行，当年即获评中国“年度十大好书”，凤凰卫视还据此拍摄了同名记录片。 In the old quarter of Wenzhou, a well-known city for its commodity economy in Zhejiang Province, stands a Christian church built about one century ago. However, the name of the builder […]
New Books at the Asian Library (Sep 14, 2017)
JAPANESE-LANGUAGE MATERIALS BQ4475 M682 2016 いまを生きる江戶思想 : 十七世紀における仏教批判と死生観 / 本村昌文 DS889 S8542 2016 なつかしの昭和時代 / 写真・文鈴木育男 HV555 J3 H55 2017 東日本大震災と<復興>の生活記錄/ 吉原直樹, 似田貝香門, 松本行真編著 N7359 F825 A4 2016 ひかり埃のきみ : 美術と回文 / 福田尚代. PL726.55 H5 2016 文学の歴史をどう書き直すのか : 二〇世紀日本の小說・空間・メディア / 日比嘉高 PL822 K294 Z55 2016 幾世の底より : 評伝・明石海人 / 荒波力 CHINESE-LANGUAGE MATERIALS DS774 Z436 2016 […]
Welcoming AAPS members to the Asian Centre and Asian Library
This summer the Asian Library offered two tours to the members of the Association of Administrative & Professional Staff (AAPS), the professional association for the Management and Professional (M&P) staff group at UBC. The tours took place on July 6 and August 29 with a total of 30 M&P Staff from 18 departments attended. Phoebe […]