Heritage Incubator: Fostering Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion through CHIN243
A heritage Chinese class can mean much more than teaching students linguistic skills, such as how to correctly pronounce words, or how to fluently formulate sentences. By encouraging the students to reflect on their own cultural heritage, CHIN 243: Basic Chinese II: Part 2 (Heritage) motivated them to further explore such significant concepts as equity, […]
Forming a Global Family with Mandarin: 2021 BC Chinese Bridge Mandarin Speech Contest
Under the theme of “Mandarin as a Bridge, the World as One Family,” the 2021 Chinese Bridge Mandarin Speech Contest successfully took place online on May 4th. This year, the contestants virtually gathered together to think about how the Winter Olympics in the upcoming year will provide a precious opportunity for everyone in the global […]
A Bittersweet Night: 2021 Year-End Online Appreciation Event
👉 Summer 2021 CLP Volunteer Recruitment: https://chinese.arts.ubc.ca/21440-2/ In the last Chinese Language Program (CLP) event of this school year, volunteers TAWLs, and professors alike gathered to celebrate the fruit of this year’s hard work. For a reminiscent night full of laughter and emotional sharing, there is only one way to describe the Online Appreciation event: […]
2021 UBC Lantern Festival Poetry Event
The 2021 UBC Lantern Festival Poetry Event, the fourth annual extracurricular event organized by the Chinese Language Program, is drawing to a successful conclusion on April 9, 2021. The Covid-19 challenges restricted the event to Canvas, but its talented organizers, contributors, and participants have in turn extended the event from Feb 26 to April 9 […]
CHIN 493: Discovering the Beauty of Classical Chinese
— 探索中国古代汉语的魅力 CHIN 493 Classical Chinese II (Heritage) covers a range of pre-modern classical Chinese essays since the Tang Dynasty (618 – 907). This three credit course is one of the many higher level Literature Chinese courses in the Chinese Language Program that are designed for advanced heritage Chinese students. In these courses, students are […]
Asian Studies Statement on Anti-Asian Racism
The Department of Asian Studies joins voices across UBC and the world in condemning the violent hate crime in Atlanta which targeted Asian American women at a time of ongoing anti-Asian racism in Canada and the US. We invite faculty, staff, students, alumni, and all members of our Department of Asian Studies community to recognize […]
Learning from Laughter: Happiness and Curiosity Keeps You Exploring
Learning a language is a source of excitement and immense fun. The decision to take Chinese classes is often simple, although navigating the complex web of language and literature learning is certainly not so. How does one keep motivated? How can Chinese serve my future? What can one do […]