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Please join us for the book launch (March 8, more info below) of
Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea
by Dr. Christina Yi. In this monograph, Dr. Yi investigates how linguistic nationalism and national identity intersect in the formation of modern literary canons through an examination of Japanese-language cultural production by Korean and Japanese writers from the 1930s through the 1950s, analyzing how key texts were produced, received, and circulated during the rise and fall of the Japanese empire. She considers a range of Japanese-language writings by Korean colonial subjects published in the 1930s and early 1940s and then traces how postwar reconstructions of ethnolinguistic nationality contributed to the creation of new literary canons in Japan and Korea, with a particular focus on writers from the Korean diasporic community in Japan. Drawing upon fiction, essays, film, literary criticism, and more, Dr. Yi challenges conventional understandings of national literature by showing how Japanese language ideology shaped colonial histories and the postcolonial present in East Asia.
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Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Auditorium, Asian Centre (1871 West Mall)
By: Rachael Bedlington (Consul General of Canada in Guangzhou, China), Richard Liu (Board of Director at the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre - Museum of Migration), Jennifer Ward (Freelance Translator), Nathan (Kuang-Chi) Hwang (Senior Business Development Assistant at Sojitz Canada Corporation), Aaron Posehn (Strategic Planning Support at UBC Office of the Provost), Kyubak Lee (New Business Development Manager at Cambridge Global Payments), Alysha Joo (Student Librarian, UBC Woodward Library)
Online registration required
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Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
Location: Room 604, Asian Centre (1871 West Mall)
By: Professor Christina Yi (UBC Asian Studies)
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Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall)
By: Dr. Barbara Molony ("Gender/ed Justice: Feminism in War and Peace"),
Dr. Sabine Frühstück ("The Power of Innocence: Gendering Children in War and Peace"), Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh ("Nadeshiko in Monpe: Women in Propaganda Kamishibai"), Dr. Hillary Maxson ("From Martial Mothers to Peaceful Family Managers: Food, Gender, and Labor in the Postwar Japanese Household")
* To be followed by a public reception.
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Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
By: Dr. Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei (
UCLA Professor Emerita
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Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Auditorium, Asian Centre (1871 West Mall)
By: Dr. Peter Kornicki (Emeritus Professor of Japanese at Cambridge University)
Online registration required
here
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In the episode 18 of the
Meiji at 150 Podcast,
Dr. Radu Leca (Kyoto Institute, Library and Archives) charts conceptions of spatialiy in the Tokugawa period and maps continuities in understandings of geographic space into the Meiji period. We discuss traces of Edo in the urban space of Tokyo, the use of maps as historical primary sources, and global and interdisciplinary approaches to teaching the Meiji period.
Listen to the episode
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In the
Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class. Students share their research findings, thoughts, and passion for Japanese anime, manga, food, music, literature, film, sports, and other facets of Japanese society and popular culture. Check out the
episodes on Hotaru no Haka (Grave of the Fireflies) and Japanese Whisky at the bottom of the page
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All are free and everyone is welcome
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