December 7, 2009
Ten undergraduate students travel to Taiwan for eight days in December to meet Taiwan leaders in government, civil society and industry. Student blogs of the trip is posted at the Asia Pacific Reader.
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Dr. Neville Poy has made a gift of 21 photos from his collection, “Photographic Expressions of Asia”, to the RCL-Canada Hong Kong Library. The director of the library, Dr. Jack Leong, will organize a benefit sale of the photos for interested collectors.
Read full entryNovember 10, 2009
The multi-year Chinese Turkistan project has been making exciting progression in both the disciplines of anthropology and photography, in an attempt to emulate the methodology of the great documentary photographers of the past century.
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East Asian development deeply impacts our global future. Invited film directors and panelists discuss the emerging social and culture changes that we face, and in particular look at how film plays a role in understanding these changes.
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The University of Toronto has been invited to select a delegation of ten outstanding students – future leaders – to participate on a one-week visit to Taiwan.
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The Asian Institute and UNICEF is holding a panel discussion to focus on the 2008 earthquake in China’s Sichuan Province and its impact on children and families. The massive earthquake left 88,000 dead and five million homeless.
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Asian Institute affilliate, Ryan Pyle, recently had the opportunity to visit a region of China that has often been overlooked during China’s sprint towards modernity, and that region is the province of Guizhou.
Read full entrySeptember 18, 2009
The director, Joe Wong, announces the following scholars who will be at the Asian Institute: Golam Dastagir, Jennifer Hsu, Norihito Kubota, Dong-Hwi Lee, Jessica Li, James Manicom, Mariam Mufti, Bharat Punjabi, Hong Loan Trinh, and Toshiko Tsujimoto.
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The 25@25 contest celebrates APF’s 25th anniversary by asking young Canadians to share their vision for Canada’s future with Asia. 25@25 sets out to identify the 25 most important issues for Canada-Asia relations.
Read full entrySeptember 14, 2009
The director of the Asian Institute, Professor Joseph Wong, is very pleased to announce an appointment of Dr. Yiching Wu to the Asian Modernities position at the Insitute and Department of East Asian Studies.
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