[Media] Dr. Henry Yu, a HKSI Associate, on the relationship between drugs and race [CBC Radio]
July 20, 2017
"As University of British Columbia historian Henry Yu explains, the opium trade was carefully used to portray the Chinese community as an outside threat."[Publications] Op-ed by Dr. Josephine Chiu-Duke, a HKSI Associate, on the passing of Liu Xiaobo [Vancouver Sun]
July 19, 2017
"To those who have been concerned with building a modern China that would realize and secure the values of its own humanistic tradition based on liberal democracy and the rule of law, Liu Xiaobo’s passing means that that empty chair in Oslo will never be filled by his person, and yet, so many of them believe Liu did not die, just like so many noble characters whom we encounter in life or in history and literature have never left us."[Media] HKSI partners with Ming Pao (Vancouver) on HK20
July 7, 2017
The Hong Kong Studies Initiative is pleased to have partnered with Ming Pao (Vancouver) and the Vancouver Hong Kong Forum Society to produce a series of reports on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong.[Media] Vancouver still shaped by Hong Kong handover two decades later [CBC]
July 2, 2017
"Twenty years later we live in a completely transformed city," says Dr. Henry Yu, a HKSI Associate, on the influence of Hong Kong immigrants.[Media] Dr. Leo Shin on the 20th anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong [SCMP]
July 2, 2017
“. . . . So Hong Kong is not just some city out there we pay attention to every five years or whenever there is violence or a protest—it’s at the forefront of the influence of China," says Dr. Leo Shin.[Media] Chinese Canadian Literature In the Asian Canadian Canon—An Interview with Dr. Laifong Leung [Ricepaper]
June 13, 2017
Dr. Laifong Leung, a HKSI Associate, speaks to Ricepaper about her upcoming course on the literature of Hong Kong, among other topics.[Media] Hong Kong Studies Initiative launched [Asia Times]
May 28, 2017
“By exposing our students to . . . Hong Kong, we help them to become more globally aware citizens. As a public institution, this is what UBC can do for Canada,” said HKSI convenor Leo K. Shin, an associate professor of history and Asian studies at UBC."[Media] Dr. Leo Shin spoke to the South China Morning Post on the launch of the Hong Kong Studies Initiative
May 19, 2017
"In Vancouver’s ‘Cantosphere,’ a sense of responsibility and an identity under siege—Artists and academics in Vancouver are carving out a space to examine both the fate of Hong Kong and the diaspora identity"[Community] Dr. Miu Chung Yan of the School of Social Work urges all to vote in the upcoming election
May 3, 2017
In a video public service announcement (in Cantonese), Dr. Miu Chung Yan, a HKSI Associate, urges all to vote in the upcoming provincial election.[Media] News coverage of “Hong Kong: 20 Years After” and associated events
April 28, 2017
Links to media coverage of the symposium on "Hong Kong: 20 Years After" and associated events.