By phchow on September 30, 2013
Come and visit Asian Library’s new exhibit Memory of Korean War Performing by Ilsoo Kyung MacLaurin in the Asian Centre foyer from September 23 until January 31, 2014.
Born in Korea, Ilsoo shares some of her memories of the Korean War in this exhibition. As a child living on a farm, Ilsoo and her family were forced to flee their home with literally what we could carry on a small cart. Food was scarce then and she can remember the many hardships they had to endure while running away from the violence. Her family was able to return to their farm after the fighting stopped. Ilsoo became a nurse and immigrated to Canada in 1967.
Canada for decades has been Ilsoo’s home and it has reshaped her into who she is today. Living here in Vancouver, she has witnessed a different kind of hardship seen in certain downtown neighbourhoods. This inspired her to re-enact her childhood escape from the Korean War. She is attempting to draw attention to the plight of the downtown Eastside homeless. These works of art blend together the cultural themes that she identifies herself with.
About Ilsoo Kyung MacLaurin
Ilsoo is a multi-media artist. She started painting in early 1997, and continued after retiring from her nursing career in 2002. She graduated at UBC with a Bachelor of Fine Art, major in Visual Art. She has involved in numerous solo and group exhibitions. Many of her art works are in private collections in Korea, Australia, the United States and Canada.
Ilsoo’s work is focused in personal identity and expression, as well as themes in the context of Korea and Canada. In her recent work, she is exploring her cultural identity; and in the process, new synthesis is emerging in her own individual practice of painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, video, photography, digital imagery, performing art and installation works.
Her works are grounded in the natural world, but looking beyond the scenic or the physical form to search for symbols and meaning in all that she encounters; her style is representation with special attention to colour, texture and form. Ilsoo’s work has been featured in a number of articles in magazines including Senior Living, the Delta Optimist, the Tricity newspaper and YouTube. For more information, visit http://www.ilsookyung.com/.
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By phchow on September 26, 2013
Pai Hsien-yung (白先勇), one of the most important modern Chinese fiction writers, will be visiting Vancouver next week and giving lecture on his book Father and the Republic (父親與民國) at this year’s Yip So Man Wat memorial Lecture hosted by the Department of Asian Studies.
Father and the Republic is a photobiography devoted to the life and career of the late General Pai Ch’ung-hsi (白崇禧 1893–1966), father of Pai Hsien-yung. General Pai’s career both paralleled and profoundly influenced the history of the Republic of China. This book includes nearly six hundred photographs that serve to illustrate the public career and family life of General Pai from the 1920s to his days in Taiwan. As a witness to the birth of the first republic in Asia, Pai Ch’ung-hsi felt an unwavering sense of loyalty to it and chose to stay on in the Republic’s last foothold in China.
In conjunction with the lecture, Asian Library has set up a book display on Pai Hsien-yung’s works, which is located at the Asian Centre entrance from September 26 until October 19. For more information on the lecture and other associated events, please visit http://www.asia.ubc.ca/2013/08/26/2013-yip-so-man-wat-memorial-lecture-guest-speaker-pai-hsien-yung/.
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By phchow on September 16, 2013
The week of September 16-22 is the BC Reconciliation Week. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC), which was established in 2008 to gather testimony on survivors’ experiences of the Indian Residential Schools, is also holding its BC National Events at Vancouver PNE from September 18-21.
UBC is dedicated to developing a better understanding of Indian Residential School histories, the policies that guided the operations of the schools, and their effects upon individuals and communities. The University will be suspending classes on September 18 to allow students, faculty and other members of the UBC community to participate in this historic event and other events around the city.
Asian Library, as part of the UBC Library, joined this campus-wide initiative by setting up a display to feature books, journal and blog articles as well as newspaper clippings on the Indian Residential Schools, in particular from an Asian perspective. It’s located in the Asian Centre foyer from September 16 to 25. Exhibits and displays on the Aboriginal issues can also be found at Education Library, Koerner Library, and Irving K. Barber Learning Centre.
For more information, visit facebook/ourtruthubc | twitter/ourtruthubc | ubc.ca/ourtruth
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By phchow on August 22, 2013
Paper dolls by Ilsoo Kyung
Paper is a medium of ideas.
We write or print on paper every day to record what is in our mind. Paper is also a versatile medium for artist to express their creative thoughts.
From trained artists to kindergarten students, they use techniques of folding, cutting, pop-ups, papier-mâché to create fascinated papercraft to decorate their lives.
CREATING WITH PAPER highlights selected library collections on paper art as well as features artworks including traditional Chinese papercuts, paper dolls by Korean artist Ilsoo Kyung, origami (paper folding), pop-ups, etc.
Origami
Come check out the exhibition on the upper floor of the Asian Library from August 26 to October 19. It is open to the public during the library open hours:
August
Monday through Friday 9am – 5pm
September-October
Monday through Thursday 9am – 8pm
Friday 9am – 5pm
Saturday 12noon – 5pm
(Library is closed on Labour Day Sept 2 and Thanksgiving Day Oct 14)
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By phchow on July 2, 2013
Zhang Hai’ou, Editor-in-chief, and three other representatives from the New World Press (新世界出版社) visited the Asian Library on Tuesday, June 25. They generously presented to the Library 16 titles of Chinese monographs, including “我们的荊轲(莫言)”, “做个快乐读书人(刘墉)”, “沙海(南派三叔)”, “平凹文墨迹(贾平凹)”, “漫画一生(华君武)”, “北大国学课”, “”一百个中国人的梦”, etc. The books are now on display at the Asian Centre entrance until July 10 and will be available for circulating the week after.
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By phchow on May 24, 2013
To facilitate the annual cleaning of carpet, different floors of the library will be CLOSED at the time listed below:
Upper floor
Tuesday May 28 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Lower floor
Wednesday May 29 12:00 noon – 3:00 pm
Seminar rooms & CJK reference area
Wednesday May 29 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
We apologize for any inconvenience caused.
Eleanor
Head, Asian Library
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By phchow on May 15, 2013
Come and join us next week at the Generation One art exhibition to celebrate the Asian Heritage Month!
As one of the signature programs of this year’s celebration, the 4th Generation One Art Exhibition is a distinctive exhibition featuring artworks of inter-cultural and cross-generational Pan-Asian artists. The displays of paintings and calligraphy will put spotlight on local young artists as well as established masters who are either first-generation Asian Canadians or new immigrants.
This week-long exhibition is co-presented by Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society and UBC Art History and Visual Art Department (AHVA). Asian Library, together with the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and Asian Studies Department are happy to be the co-sponsors.
Opening Reception is held Monday, May 20, 2:00pm – 5:00pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public Monday through Sunday, 10:00am – 6:00pm, from May 20 until May 27 at the Asian Centre Auditorium (map).
A simultaneous exhibition is held at the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (map) Level 2 foyer and Ike’s cafe gallery until May 30.
For more information, please visit the explorAsian website.
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By phchow on April 22, 2013
Indonesian gamelan, African mbira… Cantonese music – what do these all have in common? Find out at “Where East Meets West – An Exhibition of 20th Century Cantonese Musical Instruments in Vancouver” (中西合流: 二十世紀溫哥華廣東樂器展)
In collaboration with the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum and Archives (CCC) (大溫哥華中華文化中心文物館), Asian Library remounts this exhibit which was first shown in the CCC last November to this February.
The exhibit showcases 19 pieces of Chinese musical instruments from the Chinese Cultural Centre and the Asian Library’s Lok-Tin Lee Collection, used in Vancouver’s Chinatown in early to mid 20th Century.
Special thanks to our Consultant Dr. Alan Thrasher, Professor Emeritus in UBC School of Music and Curator Alan Lau, Board Director of the Vancouver Chinese Instrumental Music Society. Click here for Alan’s introduction on Chinese xylophone (木琴).
You can visit the exhibit in the foyer of Asian Centre Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, please contact Phoebe Chow at phoebe.chow@ubc.ca.
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By phchow on April 12, 2013
The history of the Protestant translation of the Christian Bible into Chinese is a fascinating one. Beginning with Robert Morrison and Joshua Marshman sharing sources yet working independently in the early 19th century, many versions and editions of the Chinese Bible had emerged in the following decades. No less than 9 major Chinese versions were produced during this vibrant period of translational activities, in addition to numerous dialectical translations plus works such as Chinese-English dictionaries, Chinese grammar works and histories of China. Only after the completion of the “official tongue” version of the Union Version (1919) was there an increasing loyalty and consensus towards a particular version.
Co-presented by Clement Tong and the Asian Library, “The Protestant Chinese Bible – The First Centenary” (基督教華文聖經百年翻譯史) explores a number of precious early Protestant Chinese translations, which take the viewers through the first one hundred years of the Protestant attempt to give Chinese people a Bible written in their languages.
Clement teaches translation skills and cultural studies at Simon Fraser University and New Testament Greek at the Vancouver School of Theology. He has been a professional and certified translator in Canada for 14 years, serves as a board member of the Society of Translators & Interpreters of British Columbia and a national certification examiner for the Canadian Translators, Terminologists and Interpreters Council. He is currently working towards a PhD in Religious Studies at UBC. His research interests include an examination of the early Chinese translations of the Christian Bible completed in the 19th century, and he has often presented papers on the Asian translation and hermeneutics of the Bible at various international conferences.
Come and visit the display on the upper floor of the Asian Library. It is free and open to the public Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. until the end of June.
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By phchow on April 8, 2013
Spring has arrived and all three display cases of Asian Library received a new look!
The Protestant Chinese Bible – The First Centenary 基督教華文聖經百年翻譯史 (Asian Library upper floor)
Co-presented by Clement Tong and the Asian Library, this display takes the viewers through the hundred years of the Protestant attempt to give Chinese people a Bible written in their languages. [More]
Where East Meets West – An Exhibition of 20th Century Cantonese Musical Instruments in Vancouver 中西合流: 二十世紀溫哥華廣東樂器展 (Asian Centre foyer)
Indonesian gamelan, African mbira… Cantonese music – what do these all have in common? Come check out “Where East Meets West – An Exhibition of 20th Century Cantonese Musical Instruments in Vancouver”. [More]
Works by Gill Moranwali (Asian Centre foyer)
Gill Moranwali was born in 1937 in the village of Miranwali in Hushiarpur distt of Punjab, India. He began writing in 1964. Immigrated to Canada in 1970, he has been involved in the North American Punjabi Writer’s Association. He made a sort of bridge between Indian and Canadian Poets.
Gill obtained the “Punjabi Sahit Sabha Canada” award and “Rim Jhim Radio” award in 1991 and 1993 respectively. Gill’s best known poetic works include “Tanweer E. Bazal”, “Chambe Di Dali”, “Babal Jaee kee Karay” and “Amee Jaee Kee Kare”.
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By phchow on April 8, 2013
UBC Library has been introducing a new course reserve system since last August through Connect, UBC’s new learning management system. This system, launched by UBC Library in collaboration with the Centre for Teaching, Learning and Technology and UBC IT, is a portal to all course reserves on a secure, campus-wide basis. Old course reserves request forms will be retired on April 30, 2013 in favour of the new system, which provides many benefits.
Benefits for instructors:
- Easy addition of articles, books, web links and media resources
- View the status of course reserve requests
- Get a hyperlink for your course materials for use outside of Connect
- Seamlessly integrate course reserves into your Connect course
- Group items using tags
- Reactivate readings in future terms in a single step
- UBC Library and Copyright Office support available
- View usage data
Benefits for students:
- Targeted and easily accessible readings
- A single list for electronic, print and multimedia course materials
- Email notifications when a new item is added
- Anywhere, anytime access to electronic course reserves
How do I get started?
- Go to connect.ubc.ca
- Log in with your CWL
- Click on the Library tab
- Select your course under My Course Reserves
- Start adding or accessing your course materials
More information on course reserves is available at courses.library.ubc.ca or contact your local Library branch.
Note: Asian Library Course Reserve looks after courses CHIN, JAPN, ASLA and ASIA (graduate courses). Please contact asian.reserve@ubc.ca or 604-822-2427 if there is questions.
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By phchow on March 15, 2013
It is nearly a year since the 5th WCILCOS Conference on Chinese through the America was held at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. As the Conference Secretariat, Asian Library is delighted to announce that the conference handbook, keynote speech webcasts, authorized papers and presentation slides are now available in cIRcle, UBC’s Digital Repository – an open, accessible and searchable database!
You can access cIRcle from UBC Library Open Collections at https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/59585. In addition, visit the WCILCOS conference website for the conference photos as well as interviews of six delegates.
On behalf of the 2012 WCILCOS Conference Organizing Committee, we would like to thank you again for everyone’s support and contributions to this very successful conference. The WCILCOS email account wcilcos.2012@ubc.ca will be closed by the end of March, 2013. For future news about WCILCOS, please visit its official website: https://overseaschineseconfederation.wordpress.com/.
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By Shaun on February 27, 2013
The removal of all materials from the Asian vault on the ground floor was completed last week. ALL Asian rare collections including the Puban, Pang Jingtang collections are now kept at the Rare Books and Special Collections division at IKBLC with storage conditions that meet international standards.
Other big sets such as 百部叢書集成 AC149.P25 S.1-S.100, 韓國口碑文學大系 PL968.4 H34 1980, 大日本近世史料 DS803 D28 are now shelved on open stacks next to the CJK journals on the Lower Floor, but not according to call number sequence for the time being unfortunately.
We are also in the process of moving all the “L” and “G” books to the compact shelving and relocating all oversized books regardless of call number groups to the shelves against the walls at the lower floor.
We understand that the book moves might cause inconveniences and confusion. Please enquire at the circulation desk or contact the language librarians for assistance if necessary.
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By phchow on January 25, 2013
Asian Library has recently joined the UBC-BWB partnership in handling discarded library materials.
UBC Point Grey, UBC Okanagan and the UBC Bookstore have long developed partnerships with Better World Books, an award winning online bookstore “with a soul” based in Atlanta, GA. This company is considered a trail blazer among newly emerging socially and environmentally responsible businesses that makes every effort to resell materials sent to it from libraries and institutions around the world. It also donates educational materials to organizations throughout North America and the world over as well as recycles all materials it cannot sell in an environmentally responsible manner.
As usual, Asian Library will first put out discarded items and unneeded gift books for sale at the library. Sending materials to Better World Books is only a sober “last” look for these materials.
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By Shaun on January 11, 2013
The roofing project has been completed. The contractor has removed all the scaffolds and fences around the building. They have also installed new “snow stoppers” on the roof. Hopefully we will no longer have tall banks of snow blocking our front and and back entrances whenever there is a heavy snow fall.
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By phchow on December 23, 2012
UBC Asian Library, Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver and B.C. Chinese Music Association are pleased to announce that their collaborated exhibition, Where East Meets West: An Exhibition of Mid-20th Century Cantonese Musical Instruments in Vancouver, has been extended to February 24, 2013.
To coincide with the exhibition, curator Alan Lau will be giving two talks in January on Chinese opera and Cantonese music. Both talks will be in Chinese and please see details below.
The exhibition is located at Chinese Cultural Centre Museum (555 Columbia Street, Vancouver) and is open Tuesday to Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Closed on Mondays and holidays). Admission: $3/adult, $2/senior or student, free for children under six and Tuesdays by donation.
For question about the exhibition please contact Chinese Cultural Centre Museum at 604-658-8880.
Curator’s Talk (in Chinese)
Place: Chinese Cultural Centre Museum (555 Columbia Street, Vancouver)
Saturday, January 5th 2:00pm
Ten Thousand Flowers – the Kaleidoscopic World of Chinese Opera
Saturday, January 19th 1:00pm
The Great Harmony of Music
中文講座 (由展覽策劃人劉嘉麟先生主講, Tina Ho 示範)
地點：中華文化中心文物館 (溫哥華哥倫比亞街555號)
2013年1月5日(六) 下午2:00 《姹紫嫣紅 － 千變萬化的中國戲曲》
2013年1月19日(六) 下午1:00 《音樂大同》
這次講座將從多元文化角度, 透過亞洲各國帶有中國元素和影響的音樂 (如日韓雅樂), 重塑中國音樂史, 窺探當中種種的文化合流, 展望中國音樂的發展與未來。
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By phchow on November 9, 2012
Indonesian gamelan, African mbira… Cantonese music – what do these all have in common? — Find out at Where East Meets West: An Exhibition of Mid-20th Century Cantonese Musical Instruments in Vancouver. The exhibition showcases a collection of Chinese musical instruments from the Chinese Cultural Centre and the UBC Asian Library’s Henry Lok-Tin Lee Collections, used in Vancouver’s Chinatown during the 1950s and 60s.
It is a somewhat unknown fact that Cantonese music is a relatively new phenomenon, derived from regional styles approximately a century and a half ago. Cantonese people are known for their receptiveness and adaptability to new ideas, evident in their use of hybrid instruments, such as modified guitars and banjos, castanet-like percussions, and in fact, xylophones tuned according to Cantonese musical modes, which are all featured as part of the exhibit. — Imagine these cultural influences and interactions, carried along by early Chinese migrants in search of the “Gold Mountain,” slowly unfolding in Vancouver’s Chinatown under the backdrop of post-war prosperities, where the East meets with the West in novel yet subtle ways…
Co-organizers:
Asian Library, University of British Columbia
Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver
B.C. Chinese Music Association
Date: November 15 – December 16, 2012
Place: Chinese Cultural Centre Museum (555 Columbia Street, Vancouver)
Time: Tuesday – Sunday, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m. (closed on Mondays and holidays)
Admission: $3/adult, $2/senior or student, free for CCC members and children under six (Tuesdays by donation)
Opening Reception and Live Performance (B.C. Chinese Music Association)
Saturday, November 17, 2:00 p.m.
Musical Demonstration (B.C. Chinese Music Association) &
Interactive Workshop: Intra-lingual: A Tale of Cantonese Music
(Presenter: Alan Lau, Exhibition Curator)
Saturday, December 1, 2:00 p.m.
For exhibition poster, visit here.
For news about this exhibition in Chinese, please visit:
Ming Pao | Sing Tao Daily | World Journal
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By phchow on November 9, 2012
Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy
灋迹: 觀遠山莊珍藏法書選
Edited by Michael Knight and Joseph Z. Chang, this catalogue is published on the occasion of the exhibition Out of Character: Decoding Chinese Calligraphy, at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, October 5, 2012 – January 13, 2013. Sponsored by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation, the show includes 40 extraordinary Chinese calligraphies along with three major Western paintings on loan from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
For more information about this exhibition, click here.
We All Live in the Forbidden City Publication Series
我的家在紫禁城系列
Co-presented and co-published by the Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation and Design & Cultural Studies Workshop, We All Live in the Forbidden City publication series is a lively interpretation of the Forbidden City that allows readers an opportunity to time travel to the past, visit and learn about the great palace from a fresh perspective. Comprised of nine books and three maps, this series received the Hong Kong Book Prize and Hong Kong Print Awards in 2010, and the Silver Award from the Design for Asia Award in 2011.
For more information about this publication series, click here.
The Forbidden City 100: 100 timeless images of the Forbidden City
故宫百集紀錄片
Co-produced by CCTV9 and the Palace Museum, Forbidden City 100 features a hundred different locations within the Palace Museum all revealing the unseen cultural significance and history of China. The 100 locations include the well-known buildings standing on the central axis: the Meridian Gate as well as three main palaces on the axis – Hall of Supreme Harmony, Hall of Central Harmony and the Hall of Preserving Harmony. Also highlighted in the series are places that either not accessible to tourists or have never been shown on TV before. The documentary series also illustrates building features such as dou-gong (bracket system) and golden bricks, small structural features that explain the inner meanings of Chinese building and culture.
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By phchow on September 5, 2012
Date: September 13 – 26, 2012
Place: Asian Centre Auditorium (1871 West Mall, Vancouver)
Sponsors: UBC Library, The Memorial Museum of Generalissimo Sun Yat-Sen’s Mansion, OMNI/City TV
日期: 2012年9月13-26日
地点: 卑诗大学亚洲中心 (1871 West Mall, Vancouver)
合办: 卑诗大学图书馆, 孙中山大元帅府纪念馆, OMNI/City TV
Details 详情:
http://guides.library.ubc.ca/page-22415314
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By phchow on September 4, 2012
Dear all,
Seeing old colleagues and returning students after the summer break as well as many new faces remind me to update you all on the roof and skylight replacement project which has been going on since May.
RJC, the contractor expects the project to be completed and scaffolding demolished on October 26th this year. Between now and the completion date, the library will be mostly impacted from September 24 through mid- October when the contractors start working on the roof panels, the roof at base of the skylight on the western elevation and installing gutter around the roof base.
The fenced area on the upper floor, however, will remained inaccessible to staff and users until 2:00 p.m. every weekday.
The entire building, unfortunately will be impacted during the entire project.
If you have questions, please contact me at Eleanor.yuen@ubc.ca or by phone at 604-822-5905.
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By Shaun on June 27, 2012
The Asian Library will close the 2nd floor from July 10 through 12 for renovation. There will be no access to our Chinese, Japanese and Korean collections in the call number range of A to F, H, P to PL4000s during that period of time.
Library patrons can still access the lower floor collections: newspapers, all journal collections, CJK fine arts, oversize and call number G, L and M monographs, South Asian and Southeast Asian collections.
We apologize for any inconvenience. Please don’t hesitate to contact our circulation staff for any urgent requests.
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By Shaun on April 19, 2012
Asian Centre lobby upgrade
Timeline: March 5 – mid-May
– New carpet already installed in March.
– Lighting to be replaced and upgraded to improve usability of space.
– 8 additional electrical outlets, 3 work benches with seating, and low tables; 1 water fountain and a book return inside the building to be installed.
Access from Asian Centre front entrance might be compromised after library/building open hours on certain days, to be confirmed by Andrew Mah, Project Manager, UBC Project Services.
Asian Centre Roof Repair
Timeline: End of March – Aug 2012
– Project notification received in mid-February.
– Project mobilization started in mid-April. Project scope includes replacement of roof and sky light.
– Building is to remain fully operational during May 16th – 19th, both dates inclusive.
– Traffic management schedule, scaffolding at roof line level and sidewalk closure started Apr 16- Aug 12.
Contact: Eleanor Yuen, Head, Asian Library at eleanor.yuen@ubc.ca or 604-822-5905
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By eshghi on February 14, 2012
UBC Library will be hosting an exhibition and one-day conference to commemorate the March 11 disasters in Japan. Click here for detailed information.
Exhibition | February 20 – April 30, 2012
Rare Books and Special Collections, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
retelling the history of the areas affected by the disasters
Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Foyer
rethinking social media & the use of nuclear power
Asian Library
recovery in Japan and its ties to Canada
3.11 Portrait Project | February 20 – April 30, 2012
Ike’s Café, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
featuring picture portraits of survivors
sponsored by The Japan Foundation & Shiseido
Conference | Saturday, March 10, 2012
10am – 4pm
Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
students, faculty, alumni & community members
share their experiences & insight
co-sponsored by UBC Asian Studies Department
e-mail to register: retell-rethink-recover[at]interchange.ubc.ca
schedule is available via the wiki, or download ConferenceSchedule_Rev20120229
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By phchow on January 31, 2012
The mapping of geographic names recorded in the head tax database was launched in the fall of 2008 by the Asian Library. It took 20 rounds of community–based meetings with Taishanese and Zhongshanese-speaking participants to match the towns and villages of origin reported by 90% of immigrants from these two counties with the geographical names in Chinese scripts. The results were released in May 2010 at the “Workshop on the Taishan and Zhongshan Immigrants in North America”.
The workshop inspired Rudy Chiang, one of the workshop participants to match the towns and villages of Sun Woy (Xinhui 新會) District found in the Head Tax database. Out of the 13,000 immigrants from Sun Woy, he successfully matched more than 7,100. On January 26th, Thursday, the Asian Library organized a workshop to celebrate Rudy’s research findings and his hard work in recapitulating the early Chinese Canadian history. Click here for Rudy’s Powerpoint presentation.
When more resources are available, mapping should also be conducted for Kaiping (開平), Panyu (番禺), Enping (恩平) and Heshan (鶴山), the remaining major sending counties. For more information on this project, please click here or contact Asian Library.
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By phchow on December 16, 2011
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By phchow on October 4, 2011
Date: October 8-10, 2011 (Saturday to Monday)
Time: 10:00am – 5:00pm
Place: David Lam Auditorium, Chinese Cultural Centre of Greater Vancouver (50 East Pender Street)
This exhibition is jointly organized by the Chinese Numismatic & Philatelic Society, Chinese Industrial and Trade Council of Canada and the National Congress of Canadians to celebrate the Centennial of the great Xinhai Revolution. UBC Asian Library is one of the supporting organizations. For more information, please call 604-278-0321.
溫哥華紀念辛亥革命百年主題展: 華僑為革命之母 真品真跡展
日期：2011年10月8-10日
時間：上午10時至下午5時
地點：大溫哥華中華文化中心林思齊禮堂 (片打東街50號)
此展覽由加拿大中華郵幣學會, 加中工貿理事會及全加華人聯會聯合主辦, 卑詩大學亞洲圖書館為支持機構之一. 查詢請電 604-278-0321
展品簡介 | 明報報導
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By phchow on September 27, 2011
The Department of Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to attend the 2011-12 Yip So Man Wat Memorial Lecture and its associated activities.
Transformative Identities: Literary Adaptation and Cultural Negotiation in Hong Kong Cinema of the 1950s
Leung Ping-Kwan
Chair Professor of Comparative Literature, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Wednesday, October 5, 7-9pm (reception starts 6pm)
Auditorium, Asian Centre
Research Seminar: “The Second Writing Career of Eileen Chang”
Monday, October 3, 4-6pm, Room 604 Asian Centre
October Harvest: Chinese and English Poetry Recital (Oct 6)
Thursday, October 6, 3-5pm, Dodson Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre
Workshop: “Intersecting Critical & Creative Practices in Academia”
Friday, October 7, 3-5:30pm, Room 2200, Harbour Centre, SFU
For more details, please visit http://www.asia.ubc.ca/watlecture/2011leung.
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By phchow on September 22, 2011
Come and join us on September 28th in our 2011 orientation event! In a relaxed atmosphere, grab a cup of coffee, chat with our friendly librarians on anything you want to know about the Library. You can also check out the new look of our website and our first orientation video. If you think you know Asian Library pretty well already, challenge yourself with the library games and you will win a prize! So drop by anytime between 3:00 and 6:00pm and say hi to us!
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By phchow on June 30, 2011
The Asian Library is happy to announce that we recently received a donation of 67 Chinese titles of monographs from the Society for Chinese Canadian Literature Studies (加拿大華人文學學會). All are works written by Chinese American writers, including Huang Helang (黃河浪), Lin Tingting (林婷婷), Li Yan (李彥), Zeng Xiaowen (曾曉文)…etc . Some of them are now on display at the Asian Centre entrance. The books will be processed and available for circulating in the near future.
嫁得西风 / 李彦
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By phchow on June 22, 2011
University of British Columbia’s Asian Library is pleased to announce that, in cooperation with the Ohio University Libraries, it will host the 5th WCILCOS International Conference of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies on Chinese through the Americas. The event will be held May 16th to 19th, 2012 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
The conference now seeks roundtable, panel and paper proposals as well as poster presentations. Please visit http://wcilcos.library.ubc.ca for details.
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By phchow on May 27, 2011
The UBC Library Human Resources has the following announcement:
“Anthony Hardy passed away at his home today, May 25, 2011.
Anthony, originally from Indonesia, completed his Master’s degree in Library Sciences from the University of Indonesia. He worked as deputy head of the central library of the Atma Jaya Catholic University in Jakarta before deciding to relocate to Canada. In November 1990, Anthony joined the UBC Library as Indonesian language Bibliographer in the Asian Library; a position he held to the present date.
On behalf of all of us at UBC Library, we extend our deepest sympathies to Anthony’s wife, his children and extended family members. He will be remembered fondly and missed.”
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By phchow on May 17, 2011
UBC Asian Library and the CHRP program will join the Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) this Saturday (May 21) at the New Westminster Multicultural Festival.
From 12 noon to 5:30pm, visit our booths at the Fraser River Discovery Centre, say hi to our friendly Indic Librarian and Chinese Language Community Archivist, or watch a few educational short films at the theater. Learn more about the Asian heritage and culture through the interactive games and demonstrations. You’ll also find music performances, fashion shows and other fun proprams at the River Market and Hyack Square. For more information, please visit VAHMS website at http://vahms.org/2011/04/new-westminster-multicultural-festival/
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By phchow on May 12, 2011
UBC Asian Library, in collaboration with the Chinese Cultural Centre Museum and Archives remounts the exhibit “Where Did the Immigrants Actually Come From?” This exhibit was first shown in the Asian Library in 2010 followed by a two-year project on mapping the villages and towns recorded in the Head Tax database.
The very idiosyncratic dialects of the immigrants from a myriad of villages and towns of southern Guangdong left behind a pool of sometimes indecipherable documentation of their roots. The inadequacies of custom personnel to accurately capture and document the villages and towns of origin in verbatim form culminated in a host of Romanized forms for reported places. As a result, research based on the place of origin has been rendered fuzzy and inaccurate. Since 2008, Asian Library has organized 20 rounds of community-based meetings with Taishanese / Zhongshanese-speaking participants to match the towns and villages of origin reported by 90% of the immigrants with the original geographical names in Chinese scripts.
The exhibit is now on until July 3rd, Tuesday to Sunday daily 11am-5pm at the Chinese Culture Centre Museum in Chinatown (555 Columbia Street, Vancouver).
Click here for the detailed description of the project and the Head Tax database.
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By phchow on April 28, 2011
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Visit here for UBC Library open hours
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By phchow on April 21, 2011
The Consulate General of Japan recently made us aware of a short film entitled “The Big Idea“, which looks at Dr. Iida’s proposal to transport the roof of the Sanyo Pavilion (at the 1970 Osaka Expo) to UBC to create the Asian Centre. The film includes footage from the Osaka Expo, as well as UBC Campus at the time. UBC Archives has now digitized this film and has made it available through cIRcle. Please click on the following link to get to the item page, and then select “view in browser” (under files in this item) to quickly open and view the film.
https://circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/33023
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By phchow on April 18, 2011
Asian Library open hours during the Easter weekend
(April 22-25):
Friday: closed
Saturday: 12:00 noon – 5:00 pm
Sunday: closed
Monday: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
Visit www.library.ubc.ca for branch hours.
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By phchow on March 28, 2011
Spring is back, so is our popular annual book sale! As the part II of Asian Library Open House 2011, this book sale carries new, used, and hard-to-find books and magazines in different Asian languages (mainly Chinese and Korean) and some in English. Prices range from 10 cents to $5 but most of them are 50 cents only! You should find books you like! Bring a tote bag with you. ALL ITEMS CASH and CARRY.
Same day at Asian Centre:
IDENTIVERSE: Group Exhibition of UBC 3rd Year Painting & 4th Year Art Theory – Some of the exhibit shown in our Open House Part I continues to be on display on the upper floor of the Library.
Vancouver Mokuyokai’s 27th Annual Ohanami
(Cherry Blossom Viewing Festival)
Celebrate spring under the cherry blossoms with a tea ceremony, garden tour, haiku writing, kamishibai (Japanese storytelling), origami, yukata-dressing, Japanese food and traditional music at UBC Nitobe Garden, an authentic Japanese garden illuminated by lantern-light for this special event. At 6pm, ring the Pacific Bell outside UBC Asian Centre and send your prayers to those affected by Japan earthquake. For details please visit Vancouver Mokuyokai Society’s website.
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By phchow on March 7, 2011
The Asian Library and the Department of Art History, Visual Art and Theory are pleased to present two displays – Identiverse and Dimensions of the Asian World at UBC – as part of the Asian Library Open House 2011.
DIMENSIONS of the ASIAN WORLD at UBC: A display 
Viewers are invited to conceptualize “Asianness” as a construct in Canada by examining various cultural products – paintings, writings, photographs, quotations, images and video clippings, facts and figures. Alongside the growing Asian student population at UBC is a rich array of Asian-themed activities, the ever-expanding Asian Studies programs and research, and the participation of non-Asian students and staff in these initiatives.
By featuring the 2010 Maclean’s article entitled “‘Too Asian’?” alongside B.C. responses to the segregation of coloured students from Caucasian children in the 1920s, viewers are prompted to ponder the tension between coercive practices of exclusion and assimilation. Excerpts of UBC’s forum on the thought-provoking Maclean’s article, as well as quotes from the Library’s Diversity Caucus discussion on the same piece, capture some thoughts about the Asian world on campus.
Please come and visit the display which is in the foyer of the Asian Centre from March 13, 2011.
INDENTIVERSE: Group Exhibition of UBC 3rd Year Painting & 4th Year Art Theory
Identiverse, a combination of “identity” and “diversity,” explores the transitions and struggles of ethnic groups regarding their individual and cultural identities. The identities of university students are also examined.
Opening Reception:
Sunday March 13 4-8pm
Exhibition Dates:
March 14-17 12noon-5pm
March 18 11am-3pm
Asian Centre Auditorium & Asian Library Upper Floor
Co-organizers Asian Library | Art History + Visual Art + Theory
Sponsor Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society
Collaborators Institute of Asian Research | Chinese Language Program, Asian Studies Department | Punjabi Language, Literature & Sikh Studies, Asian Studies Department
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By phchow on January 10, 2011
With the support from a family trust fund, our subscription to Duxiu is paid up and service guaranteed. What is as exciting, if not more exciting is that the Library has also committed to fund the expanded and full access to all 9 China Academic Journal Databases. Now we have access to the China Doctoral and Master Dissertations database; the Conference Proceedings database; the Yearbook full-text database; the Core Newspaper and Reference Works Online databases on top of the 3 journal databases we currently enjoy. Please note that newly named China Knowledge Resource Integrated Database has replaced the former “China Academic Journals.”
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By phchow on November 3, 2010
The mapping of geographic names recorded in the head tax database was launched in the fall of 2008 as one of the “Asian Library’s Partnerships with Communities’ Program Series”. It took 20 rounds of community-based meetings with Taishanese/Zhongshanese-speaking participants to match the towns and villages of origin reported by 90% of the immigrants with the original geographical names in Chinese scripts. With the findings, community members interested in their genealogy, UBC students and indeed scholars from all over the world are able to work toward an international research network for reporting the roots of emigrants from Guangdong, China from 1885-1947, during which head tax was levied on incoming ethnic Chinese. (more)
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By phchow on October 20, 2010
Hanfu or Han Chinese clothing refers to the historical dress of the Han Chinese people (the biggest ethnic group in China), which was worn for millennia before the establishment of the Qing dynasty in 1644. It is a product of collective wisdom and artistry, and can best reflect the ethnicity of Han people. Some other Asian countries like Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Mongolia, and Bhutan also have implemented Hanfu elements in their own clothing.
Hanfu Club (汉服学社) consists of a group of students who are enthusiastic in the Hanfu culture and wish to revive Hanfu. In collaboration with the Asian Library, they created this exhibit with the aim to introduce the various types of Hanfu with one at a time. The display is set up in the foyer of the Asian Centre and is changed every other week until November.
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By phchow on January 28, 2010
Message from Eleanor Yuen
Head, Asian Library
University of British Columbia
This year, we are celebrating our 50th birthday truly at another new era of knowledge creation and curation.
We know that it is imperative that we revisit our roles, re-configure our service model and repurpose our facilities. From the inception with the amassing of Chinese and Japanese classics in humanities to being the very place that users at UBC and beyond turn to for information on Asia, we have filled our shelves, physical and virtual with more than 580,000 items and delivered information on multiple platforms that is rich with databases, web sites, blogs, videos, images, audios and much more. We respond to users’ changing study habits and demands, face-to-face or online through social networks. Our commitments to the community run deep and we have been welcoming an exponential number of community members. We are privileged to call the beautiful Asian Centre home but we have yet to improve the functionalities of the space and the ambience of the library.
Our 2010 team of ten needs to champion the necessary transition from print to on-line collections and help patrons to adapt to the state-of-art information skills. Predictions about information trends and future technologies may always be fraught with uncertainty. While we are excited by the opportunities on the horizon, we also have to reposition ourselves for the burgeoning virtual world and the growing and diverse user communities that support and challenge us. It is no long satisfying to find strength in the supremacy of number. Rather, with the largest Asian collection in Canada in seven languages as the cornerstone of the library, we must stay forward-looking, courageous, agile and adaptable.
Together with our users, may we strive to bridge Asian culture with that of Canada and indeed North America and be a living library of Asian studies and research in the new era of information ecology.
Could we combine wisdom of the east
with the progress or “push” of the west in a Latin phase of 3 or 4 words
Sketch of UBC Crescent Frank Westbrook fonds, Box 1-17
Omnia mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis.
— All things are changing, and we are changing with them
Cheers to the three “r” s at the Asian Library!
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By phchow on January 28, 2010
In celebration of the Asian Library’s 50th birthday, UBC Library is pleased to announce the Peter Ward Open Essay Contest.
The contest’s theme is “How has the Asian Library helped you achieve your goals?” It aims to challenge students and community users to review their experiences and contemplate the Asian Library’s future. Essay topics on collections, services, facilities, space and your vision of the Asian Library will be accepted.
The winning essayist will receive $500!
At the Asian Library, we strive to bridge Asian, Canadian and North American cultures so we are truly a living library of Asian studies and research. We respond to users’ changing study habits and demands, face-to-face or online. Our commitments to the community also run deep.
We are privileged to call the beautiful Asian Centre home – but we would like to improve the Library’s space and ambience. By sharing your experiences and ideas, you will be part of a milestone in the Asian Library’s development.
ESSAY ENTRY DEADLINE: FEBRUARY 20, 2010
Essay submissions will be judged by a panel of UBC faculty and librarians. Entrants are encouraged to use images, videos, sound files and other formats to illustrate their ideas.
Application Rules:
- The contest is open to all.
- All entries must be received (mail or electronic) on or before deadline date. Mail to:
Peter Ward Essay Contest
The Asian Library
1871 West Mall, Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z2
OR submit by e-mail to asian.library@ubc.ca
- Submissions in any ONE of the following languages will be accepted: Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Hindi, Punjabi, Indonesian, English.
- All essays must be titled and signed, accompanied by an electronic file.
- Essays must contain a minimum of 1,000 words and no more than 1,500 words.
- Essays must be typed, double-spaced, on one-sided 8.5 x 11-inch paper.
- Student entries should include the name of the school or university the entrant is attending.
- All entries must include a cover sheet with the entrant’s legal name, mailing address, e-mail address if available and telephone number.
- The Asian Library retains the right to quote, publish or upload the essays in part or in entirety for administrative and educational purposes.
- All entries become the property of the Asian Library and will not be returned to the writers.
The winner will be notified by mail or e-mail and invited for the presentation of the award on March 5, 2010 at UBC.
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By phchow on October 28, 2009
Ravinder Ravi is a well-known writer and poet who has more than 80 publications including the famous and well known Restless Soul. He has fully exploited fresh themes and techniques causing him to be the rightful winner of many awards including the Pride of Performance Award, the Fellowship Award, The Best Writer Award as well as the Amrita Pritam Memeorial International Award of Distinction. Ravinder has a unique and bold style and as Dr. Kohli says, he is truly “an experimentalist”.
From now through March 2010, come check out Ravinder Ravi’s collection displayed on the upper floor of Library. For more information, please contact Sarbjit Randhawa, Indic Librarian, at 604-822-2162.
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By phchow on October 28, 2009
Westernization has been a major process in Chinese music since the beginning of the 20th century, illustrated by the adoption of Western harmony, counterpoint and performance practices. Western elements have also influenced the design of instruments, introducing new sonorities to traditional texture.
Created by the Asian Library, this exhibit includes samples of hammer dulcimers, two-stringed fiddles, three-stringed lutes and a zither, along with scores. It’s believed that Steven Lee, who was an active member in Vancouver’s Chinese community in the 1940s and 1950s, collected these instruments.
You can visit the display, which is in the IKBLC Gallery located on 1961 East Mall [map], until December 7, 2009.
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By phchow on September 1, 2009
Digitization of Chinese Clan Association Publications
五邑僑刊電子數據化項目
In collaboration with FAMILYSEARCH, Genealogical Society of Utah, USA
Field Supervisor, FamilySearch Imaging Services at work：
Aug 18th, 2009 –
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By phchow on April 6, 2009
The Cataloguing Backlog Project that comprises 40,000 monographs in seven Asian Languages will begin in May 2009. Titles from special collections such as Jing Yi Zhai and Punjabi/Hindi/Sanskrit/Urdu materials of the Shastic Program, that are never in the library catalogue will be prioritized for cataloguing, so are missing out titles of catalogued series. Please stay tuned for periodic progress reports from the language librarians.
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By phchow on April 6, 2009
The Binding Backlog Project will start in April 2009. A full time staff will be hired to help bind 6,000 Chinese, Japanese, Korean and South Asian serial back issues. Print issues which are available on-line in dependable and reputable databases that the library has been subscribing for more than three years will not be bound except for very rare circumstances that call for a duplicate copy. Please contact respective language librarians or Shaun Wang, Circulation Supervisor at shaun.wang@ubc.ca for assistance.
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By phchow on April 1, 2009
In collaboration with Ming Pao, the digitization of the “Community News” is launched, starting from its inception issue of October 15, 1993. To date, articles after January 2008 are available for searches, free-of-charge. Older archival issues are uploaded to the database weekly or at more frequent intervals.
Please click here to go to the database.
Here is a screen shot of the database’s home page:
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By phchow on March 18, 2009
Come out to UBC’s beautiful northwest quadrant and enjoy some of the many Asia-related cultural resources on campus! to celebrate the Asian Heritage Month. This is the first-of-kind event in UBC which involves more than 10 University departments and units offering a one-day event to celebrate Asian Heritage Month.
Asia Voilà features traditional Asian dance and music performances, films, art and photo exhibitions, lectures on poetry chanting and calligraphy, guided library tours and workshops, an Asian languages round robin, a book sale, Nitobe Garden tours and more! Please visit the ASIA VOILA website for more info.
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