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A new video featuring UBC Chinese rare books
Please take a moment to watch this new video showcasing the Chinese rare book collections with focus put on poetry covering all historical periods. Created by Jing Liu, Chinese Studies Librarian, this video is a part of UBC Asian Studies’ Lantern Festival Poetry Night (上元诗会), a multi-media and multi-lingual event hosted by the UBC Chinese […]
2021 Essay Competition for Punjabi Language Students
Update on April 5: We are sorry to announce that the Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program 2021, originally scheduled on April 7, is cancelled at this time. The event will be rescheduled and announced in due course. For more information, please visit the program page. The Department of Asian Studies and the Asian Library at […]
Ink Dance
Saturday, February 27, 2021 7:00PM to 8:15PM PST Online event via Zoom Co-presenters: Canadian Society for Asian Arts and UBC Asian Library Speakers: Dr. Jan Walls, Greta Ho, Andrew Young
Year of the Ox: Let’s Make Lunar New Year’s Cards
Friday, February 5, 2021 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm Online event! Please register at https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/event/3593609 Happy New Year! Let’s celebrate the year of the White Ox (辛丑年, beginning on Friday, Feb. 12th) by sending our thoughts to family and friends with a handmade card. The ox is said to be patient and kind, good qualities to have […]
Diwali (Festival of Lights) event recap
The Asian Library hosted its first virtual Diwali or Deepavali celebrations on Thursday, November 12 and it also marked the beginning of celebrating Asian Library’s 60th anniversary. Event attendees enjoyed a variety of folk dances, poems, songs, learned about the traditions surrounding Diwali, and also learned about the history of the Asian Library. Sarbjit Randhawa, […]
Celebrate DIWALI with the Asian Library on Nov 12!
Come and celebrate Diwali (Festival of Lights) with the Asian Library, with the support of the Department of Asian Studies. Thursday, November 12, 2020 11:00 am to 11:30 am Virtual event! Please register at https://libcal.library.ubc.ca/calendar/vancouver/diwali2020. Diwali or Deepavali, which means “a row of lights”, is the most widely celebrated festival in India and throughout the Indian diaspora. It […]
Rare Japanese materials acquired in memory of David Mark Graham
David Mark Graham (1945-2012) was a Vancouver native and a double UBC alumnus (BA, BArch) with a life-long interest in Asia. At UBC, he was closely involved with projects such as the construction of the Asian Centre, the rejuvenation of the Nitobe Japanese Garden, and a proposal for a travelling exhibition of the university’s Tokugawa […]
UBC Library support in making course materials available online for the Fall
Below is the announcement issued by the Associate University Librarian, Collections to faculty members about providing course reserve materials for students in the Fall term. If you have any questions on placing Asian-language materials on reserve, please contact your subject librarians or email asian.reserve@ubc.ca. Dear Colleagues, As UBC looks towards preparing for the Fall term, […]
