East Asian Library events
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1pm-3pm
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Flexible Learning Space, East Asian Library, Room 8049,Robarts Library, 130 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5
linkhttps://east.library.utoronto.ca/eal-newsletter/book-talk-event-swimming-back-trout-river
Sold Out - Join us for a special discussion about the novel Swimming Back To Trout River, by Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Linda Rui Feng in conversation with Lynne Kutsukake about writing, immigration, and translation. There will be a short reading from the novel followed by a conversation, which will cover topics such as writerly craft and the possible relationships between scholarly writing and fiction.
Linda Feng,… Read more about this event
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3:00 - 4:30 pm EST
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Online Event - Zoom
linkhttps://east.library.utoronto.ca/eal-newsletter/east-asian-librarys-orientation-event-u-t-tibetan-studies-community
Sold Out - (view recording below) - Welcome Tibetan Studies Students, we invite you to join our orientation event!
The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library is hosting an orientation event for the U of T Tibetan Studies Community. The workshop will cover an introduction to the Tibetan Collections at the University of Toronto, tools and tips for accessing the collections; Romanization schemes for the Tibetan language, and recommended… Read more about this event
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7 - 9:40 pm
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Innis Town Hall
linkhttps://east.library.utoronto.ca/eal-newsletter/film-screening-house-lost-cape-jianomayoika
Sold Out - Join us for a special screening of the new Japanese anime film The House of the Lost on the Cape (岬のマヨイガ) Misaki no mayoiga based on the original novel by Sachiko Kashiwaba (柏葉幸子) who will be at the book signing at 7:00 pm and the Q & A session following the screening. The film directed by Shinya Kawatsura (川面真也) begins with a 17-year-old run-away Yui and 8-year-old Hiyori, who lost her family and her voice, have… Read more about this event
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4:00 - 5:00 pm EDT
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Zoom
linkhttps://east.library.utoronto.ca/eal-newsletter/have-you-eaten-yet-dialogue-cheuk-kwan
Have You Eaten Yet? A dialogue with CHEUK KWAN
The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library's Event for the Asian Heritage Month 2022
Date: Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Time: 4:00-5:00pm EDT
Location: Zoom
Register: https://bit.ly/3MQ8ndw
Sold Out - (view video recording below) - The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto, cordially invites you to this online event in celebration of Asian Heritage Month 2022. Join us for this dialogue with filmmaker and writer, Cheuk Kwan, about his… Read more about this event
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9:45 am - 1:00 pm EDT
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Zoom
linkhttps://east.library.utoronto.ca/eal-newsletter/visions-and-desires-independent-filmmaking-post-socialist-china
Visions and Desires: Independent Filmmaking in Post-Socialist China (event booklet)
The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library and the East Asian Studies Graduate Student Union (EASGSU) cordially invite you to join us on Thursday, May 19 for "Visions and Desires: Independent Filmmaking in Post-Socialist China," an online forum on Chinese independent filmmaking, featuring Shi Qing, Fan Popo, and Zhu… Read more about this event
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12:00 - 1:30 pm EST
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Online
linkhttps://east.library.utoronto.ca/eal-newsletter/racial-capitalism-and-national-question-early-peoples-republic-china
Racial Capitalism and the National Question in the Early People's Republic of China
The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library cordially invites you to join us for a lecture on "Racial Capitalism and the National Question in the Early People's Republic of China" with 2021 Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library Resources Access Grant Program grantee Professor Jeremy Tai. Professor Tai will discuss his research on conceptualizations of race (zhongzu) and ethnicity (minzu) in the People's Republic of China… Read more about this event
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11:59pm ET
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Online
linkhttps://east.library.utoronto.ca/eal-newsletter/2022-cheng-yu-tung-east-asian-library-resources-access-grant-program-amid-covid-19
The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library is excited to announce the 2022 Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library Resources Access Grant Program. This program aims to provide equity and access to East Asian Studies resources during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Through the Grant Program, the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library:
Offers support for faculty and doctoral students in the field of East Asian Studies in Canada to conduct research
Assists scholars in Canada to access the Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library's… Read more about this event
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4:00 - 5:30pm EST
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Online
linkhttps://east.library.utoronto.ca/eal-events/mysterious-dreams-dialogue-terry-watada
The Asian Heritage Month Celebration
The Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library, University of Toronto, would like to cordially invite you to join this online event to mark the 2021 Asian Heritage Month and celebrate two new books by Terry Watada. The event will feature a book reading by Terry and a dialogue led by Ken Noma, former President of the National Association of Japanese Canadians (NAJC). Pre-registration is required to get the event link.
Watch a recording of the event on YouTube.… Read more about this event
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12:30 - 1:30 PM EST
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Online
linkhttps://east.library.utoronto.ca/node/166608
Presenters: Dr. Alexander Gardner, Director and Editor in Chief; and Catherine Tsuji, Editor
Click here to watch the presentation on YouTube.
The Treasury of Lives is a biographical encyclopedia of Tibet, Inner Asia, and the Himalayan region. In development since 2007, the online resource provides accessible and well-researched biographies of notable scholars, masters, or leaders in traditional Himalayan and Inner Asian society and culture who are deceased and who were native to the… Read more about this event
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8:00 PM EST
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Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library
linkhttps://east.library.utoronto.ca/node/166587
National Apology and Reinvigoration of Indigenous Rights in Taiwan
The 2021 Taiwan Lecture on Chinese Studies is delivered by Dr. Awi Mona (Chih-Wei TSAI) 蔡志偉, Director & Associate Professor of Law and Indigenous Studies, National Dong Hwa University.
Click here to view event photos on Facebook and here to watch the lecture on YouTube.
Transitional justice has received considerable attention in recent years in Taiwan. Despite all this attention, transitional justice is an issue… Read more about this event