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• An art exhibition produced by Vancouver Asian Heritage Month Society (VAHMS) artists & community partners in multiple locations to showcase Asian-Canadian artists’ creativity and vitality, featuring both established local artists as well as emerging artists who are first-generation Canadians.
• Time: May 1- May31
• Location: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre, UBC
• Fee: Free admission

Reframing Waterscapes 

• Exhibition about globalization and migration along the Yangtze River in China. This exhibit is drawn from on an 1800 km journey along the Yangtze River from Chongqing to Shanghai taken by multi-media artist Gu Xiong and research collaborators Chris Lee and Jennifer Chun in 2011. A series of public events in conjunction with the exhibit will further explore waterways as metaphors for displacement, survival, and renewal. 
• Time: Mar 15- May 18
• Location: Lobby Gallery, Liu Institute for Global Issues
• Fee: Free admission

The Future of Mexican Past: A Roundtable Discussion on Mexico’s Porfirian Histories and Historiographies

• A roundtable discussion on the complex processes that go into the present and future making and remaking of Mexico’s histories and historiographies.  Chaired by Dr. Paul Garner (University of Leeds), with Dr. Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Brown University) and Dr. William French (UBC)
• Time: Thursday, May 17, 5:30-7:30pm
• Location: Liu Institute for Global Issues
• Fee: Free admission. Refreshments will be served.

Birding Bonanza: Discover the Amazingly Diverse Lives of Birds!

• View local birds like never before through displays and activities of bird specimens from our exclusive behind-the-scenes collections. Special programming will include hands-on activities with real bird specimens, birding activities and lessons, museum tours, puppet shows, scavenger hunts, crafts and more
• Time: Daily 12:45pm; Shows on weekends: 11am
• Location: Beaty Biodiversity Museum
• Fee: Free admission

Kesu’: The Art and life of Doug Cranmer

• Northwest Coast Kwakwaka’wakw art is renowned for its flamboyant, energetic, and colourful carving and painting. Among the leading practitioners was Doug Cranmer (1927-2006), whose style was understated, elegant, and fresh, and whose work quickly found an international following in the 1960s. He was an early player in the global commercial art market, and one of the first Native artists in British Columbia to own his own gallery. A long-time teacher, he inspired generations of young Native artists in Alert Bay, BC, and across the province.
• Time: May 17 to Sep 3
• Location: Museum of Anthropology
• Fee: Regular admission

Forest One By Annie Ross 

• Dr. Ross, a weaver and Assistant Professor in First Nations Studies at Simon Fraser University, completely transformed the car inside and out. Forest One speaks of colonization, urban sprawl, trash, and remediating the urban landscape through acts of salvage
• Time: Mar 20 – May 27 | 2pm to 7pm
• Location: Museum of Anthropology
• Fee: Regular admission

Yellow Signal: New Media in China Zhang Peili, Geng Jianyi, Huang Ran

• Featuring leading Chinese artists Zhang Peili, Geng Jianyi, and Huang Ran the Belkin Art Gallery will show a multimedia installation, photography and video art as part of a city-wide exhibition series of new media works by twelve internationally acclaimed Chinese artists
• Time: Apr 27 to Aug 29
• Location: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery
• Fee: Free admission

VSO: Bach & Beyond – Bach , Respighi, Mozart

• Presented by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra as part of the Bach & Beyond Series at the Chan Centre
• Time: May 18-19 | 8:00 pm
• Location: Chan Center
• Ticket: $25-$70

The Museum of Anthropology

The Museum of Anthropology was founded in 1949 to collect, preserve, research, and display archaeological and ethnographic material from British Columbia and the rest of the world. Today, it is Canada’s largest teaching museum and one of its most popular public museums

Address: 6393 NW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z2
Phone: 604.822.3825
Admission:
Adult $16.75
Student & Senior 65+ $14.50
Tuesday evenings 5-9pm $9
Open Hours:
Tues 10 am to 9 pm
Wed- Sun 10 am to 5 pm

Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery

The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery is one of the province’s premier showcases for contemporary art. Through exhibitions, publications, lectures and symposia, the Gallery’s programs emphasize research, teaching, and scholarship in areas ranging from B.C. art history to international contemporary art, and contemporary approaches to the practice of art history, criticism and curating.

Address: 1825 Main Mall V6T 1Z2
Phone: 604.822.2759
Admission: Free
Open Hours:
Tues to Fri 10 am—5 pm
Sat to Sun 12pm—5 pm

Chan Centre for the Performing Arts

Since its opening in spring 1997, the Chan Centre for the Performing Arts has earned an international reputation for its striking design and stellar acoustics. Artists, critics and patrons alike are unanimous in their praise of the multi-faceted facility, winning it a place among North America’s premier performing arts venues.

Address: 6265 Crescent Road, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z1
Phone: 604.822.9197

UBC Botanical Garden　

UBC Botanical Garden was established in 1916. It curates a collection of ca. 12 000 plants representing approximately 8000 taxa from temperate regions around the world. Temperate forest plants of British Columbia, eastern North America and Asia are curated in woodland gardens, while a classic alpine garden displays the diverse flora of high-altitude regions of the world.

Address: 6804 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6T 1Z4
Phone: 604.822.3928
Admission:
Adult $8
Student and 65+Senior $6
Hours: Daily 9:30am-5pm

Nitobe Japanese Memorial Garden

Opened in 1960, the Nitobe Garden is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Inazo Nitobe, a Japanese educator, author and international diplomat whose personal goal was ‘to become a bridge across the Pacific.”

Address: 1895 Lower Mall, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Phone: 604.822.6038
Admission:
Adult $6
Student and 65+Senior $4.5
Hours: Daily 9:30am-5pm (Apr. 1 – Oct. 31)

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Friday, May 18, 2012      9:00am-10:30am                                                      

1.  “Chinese Canadian Stories”: a University – Community Collaboration Project (Allan CHO & Yu LI, University of British Columbia)
2. Preserving History and Exploring Resources: A  U.S. – China Experience (Ying XU, California State University)
3. My experience with the Ron Bick Lee collection as a young archivist (Qinqin ZHANG, University of Western Ontario)
4. Internment Notices in Newspaper Published in Cebu, Philippines: A Source for Chinese Bio-Profiles (Gyo MIYABARA, Osaka University)
5. The Tung Wah Coffin Home Archives and Studies of Global Chinese Networking (Honming Yip, Chinese University of Hong Kong)

1. 日华作家的“日本论” (日本武藏野美术大学 廖赤阳)
2. 后方修马华文学史建构上的冲突：现实主义作家与留台作家 (日本立教大学 舛谷锐)
3. 寓言书写和语言策略：以李永平、张贵兴为例(日本学术振兴会 及川茜)
4. 馬華抗戰文學：中國抗戰文學的傳播與接受的探討(馬來西亞博特拉大學 莊華興)
5. 全球化視野下的華文文學 (巨濟大學 吕晓琳)

1. Intermarriage between First Nations women and the early Chinese male immigrants (Senator Lillian Eva (Quan) DYCK)
2. Experiences of immigrant Chinese Women with Canadian Immigration (1950-1990) (Senator Vivienne POY)
3. Challenges of Social Integration for Chinese Immigrants in Toronto (Jack H.T. LEONG, University of Toronto)

1. Paper trails:  Anglo-Chinese Australians and the White Australia Policy (Kate BAGNALL, Independent scholar)
2. Navigating Policies and the Seas: Mobile Migrant Merchants of Wing Sang & Co. and Wing On & Co. (Heidi H. KONG, University of British Columbia)
3. ‘Going Bananas’:  the Chinese in bicultural New Zealand (Manying IP, University of Auckland)

1. The new Peruvian-Chinese Association (APCh) or the heirs of the Dragon (Isabelle LAUSENT-HERRERA, French National Research Center)
2. Lost Nation: Malayan Communist party in the 1930s (Anna Belogurova, UBC)
3. Transpacific Steam: Mexico and the unexplored case of the China Commercial Steamship Company (1903-1913) (Ruth MANDUJANO, University of British Columbia)
4. Chinese Thai Remigration: From Thailand to the United States (Jiemin BAO, University of Nevada)
5. The Ambivalent Alliance: Chinese Policy towards Indonesia, 1960-1965 (Taomo ZHOU, Cornell University)

1. Moving words and images: Chinese rare collections at UBC (Jing LIU, University of British Columbia)
2. Cambridge Chinese Rare Book and Manuscript Collections: Discoveries and Rediscoveries of Items Related to Robert Morrison and the Taiping Rebellion (Kang TCHOU, Cambridge University)
3. 論UBC亞圖所藏中文善本古籍的文物價值與文獻價值 (四川師範大學 管錫華 / 加拿大卑诗大學 吳欣欣)

1. Sources on Chinese overseas: traces in business archives at the Hung On-To Memorial Library of the University of Hong Kong (Edith CHAN, University of Hong Kong)
2. From Criticism to Mutual Support: Richmond Public Library’s Relationship with the Cantonese Speaking Community (Wendy JANG, Richmond Public Library)
3. Bilingual Metadata and Discovery – Don’t Let Your Chinese Archives Get Lost In Translation (Lilly LI and Allan CHO, University of British Columbia)
4. Telling the Story of the Chinese of California in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries: A Collaborative Online Exhibition (Theresa SALAZAR, University of California, Berkeley)
5. Library Marketing for Southeast Asia Chinese Overseas Special Collections: Transnational Discovery & Delivery (Virginia Jing-yi SHIH, University of California, Berkeley)

1. 移民與難民：加拿大緬甸華人移民社群的形構與變遷  (台灣國立歷史博物館 翟振孝)
2. 1980年后福州向美国的移民及其发展变化 (福建社会科学院 黄英湖)
3. 八闽新侨觅缘踪  史海钩沉东西洋——庄国土教授主持编纂《福建新移民调查资料汇编》与《清代华侨史补充资料》中美国部分之析介(厦门大学  张长虹)

1. Participation of Chinese Pioneers in British Columbia Salmon Canneries, 1880’s to 1920’s (Rudy M.T. CHIANG)
2. Chung Nye of New Westminster, B.C – A Canadian Story from the Perspective of Chinese Pioneers living in B.C. during the 1880’s to 1920’s (Rudy M.T. CHIANG)
3. The transformation of funerary landscape by the evolution of Chinese burials in Burnaby, BC (Maurice GUIBORD)

1. Colorado’s Celestials (Katie ADAMSON, University of Colorado Denver)
2. Chinese Chicago: Transnational Migration and Business, 1870s-1940s (Huping LING, Truman State University)
3. The Growth and Sustainability of Chinese American Nonprofit Organizations in U.S. Metropolitan Areas (Chi-kan Richard HUNG, University of Massachusetts)
4. From Cultural Anxiety to Social Mobilization: The Making of a Chinese American Community in Boston, 1840s-1930s (Wing-kai TO, Bridgewater State University)

1. Exile and Imagined Homeland: Cultural Nostalgia and the Mainlander Native Place Associations in Taiwan, 1962-1987 (Dominic Meng-Hsuan YANG, University of British Columbia)
2. Overseas Chinese Refugees in the People’s Republic of China: A Neglected Field of Study (Glen PETERSON, University of British Columbia)
3. Transborder Sovereignty: Chinese “Coolie” Migration to the Americas and the Limits of the Nation-State (Elliott YOUNG, Lewis & Clark College)

1. Where East meets Eastern: Chinese early migration to Atlantic Canada (James H. MORRISON, Saint Mary’s University)
2. More than meets the eye: An examination of archival materials related to Chinese immigration in Nova Scotia, with specific reference to Halifax  (Grace BELL, Saint Mary’s University)
3. The Lees: a Chinese family’s century in Halifax (Albert LEE, Chinese Canadian photographer)

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The conference will be held May 16-19.  Click here for more information about our tentative conference schedule, paper abstracts and keynote speakers.

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For more information, contact us at wcilcos.2012@ubc.ca

We look forward to seeing you in Vancouver!

Friday, May 18, 2012        9:00am-10:30am

1. 日华作家的“日本论” (日本武藏野美术大学 廖赤阳)
2. 后方修马华文学史建构上的冲突：现实主义作家与留台作家 (日本立教大学 舛谷锐)
3. 寓言书写和语言策略：以李永平、张贵兴为例(日本学术振兴会 及川茜）
4. 馬華抗戰文學：中國抗戰文學的傳播與接受的探討(馬來西亞博特拉大學 莊華興)
5. An Essay on the Study for  “Chinese-language Literature by Chinese Diaspora” 华人华文文学新视角的必要性 (釜山大學 金惠俊)
6. 全球化視野下的華文文學 (巨濟大學 吕晓琳)

1. Vancouver’s Chinatown: A Place In The Making (Lisi FENG, University of British Columbia)
2. Places in Time: Chinatowns, Beginnings and Endings (Cindy Hing-Yuk WONG, City University of New York & Gary MCDONOGH, Bryn Mawr College)
3. The Divided Present (Andréanne DOYON, Justin H.K. TSE, University of British Columbia)

1. Paper trails:  Anglo-Chinese Australians and the White Australia Policy (Kate BAGNALL, Editor / Web content developer / Historical researcher)
2. Situ Family’s Experience between Papua New Guinea and China (1920s to 1930s) (Selia TAN, University of Hong Kong / Wuyi University)
3. Navigating Policies and the Seas: Migrant Merchants of the Wing On and Sincere Department Stores (Heidi H. KONG, University of British Columbia)

1. The transformation of funerary landscape by the evolution of Chinese burials in Burnaby, BC (Maurice GUIBORD)
2. Ethnic Enclave? Sex and the Myth of Isolation in Twentieth Century Chinese Canadian History (Elise CHENIER, Simon Fraser University)
3. Loaded Words: Race, Ethnicity and Language among Chinese Canadians (Kenneth HUYNH, University of Toronto)
4. Migration, Identities, and Transformation (Xiong GU, University of British Columbia)

1. The new Peruvian-Chinese Association (APCh) or the heirs of the Dragon (Isabelle LAUSENT-HERRERA, French National Research Center)
2. Transpacific Steam: Mexico and the unexplored case of the China Commercial Steamship Company (1903-1913) (Ruth MANDUJANO, University of British Columbia)

1. 论民国时期侨刊对侨乡社会的建构—以台山侨刊为切入点 (五邑大学广东侨乡文化研究中心 姚婷)
2. 构建海洋社会华人女性生活史：资料和方法的探讨 Building A History for Chinese Women in China’s Southeast Conner and Overseas: A Discussion on Research materials and Methods (厦门大学  沈惠芬)
3. 华侨华人民间文献的多重价值与开发利用 (暨南大学 徐云、朱丽娜)
4. 近代广东侨刊研究—以《香山旬报》为中心 (广东省立中山图书馆 倪俊明)

Friday, May 18, 2012        10:45am-12:15pm

1. From Chinatown to Ethnoburb: The Chinese in Toronto (Arlene CHAN, Toronto Public Library)
2. Pioneer Pacific Chinatowns: Tracing the Chinese Diaspora in History (Judy Lam MAXWELL, Chinese Canadian Military Museum)

1. Chinese Thai Remigration: From Thailand to the United States (Jiemin BAO, University of Nevada)
2. Chinese immigrants in Russia: Chasing the Canadian dream (Olga ALEXEEVA, Université Laval)
3. Transborder Sovereignty: Chinese “Coolie” Migration to the Americas and the Limits of the Nation-State (Elliott YOUNG, Lewis & Clark College)

1. Summary of Research Findings on the Family History of Yuan Shikai: a current and updated report ( KaChuen GEE, City University of New York and Sheau-Yueh CHAO)
2. Kuomintang’s Influence in East Canada and beyond: A Case Study of Shing Wah Daily News (Stephen QIAO, University of Toronto)
3. The Hong Men Min Chih Tang Association of Cuba: 125 Years Developing Friendship, Fraternity, and Assistance (Mitzi ESPINOSA LUIS, Nacional Association Min Chih Tang)
4. Chinese Freemason’s Lantern: The Transnational Vestige of Chinese Overseas Heritage (Tzu-I CHUNG, Royal British Columbia Museum)

1. 家庭团聚是移民法体系的核心—美国、加拿大家庭团聚移民政策分析 (华中师范大学  李其荣)
2. Found: Lin Chin and Lee Tuck Hor (Imogene L. LIM, Vancouver Island University)

1. 论重回故土对美华作家中国叙事的影响 (暨南大学  李亚萍)
2. 论华文文学研究中的“北美专题” (汕头大学  庄园)
3. 以「加拿大华裔作家协会」出版的作品选集为例，试谈「加华作家」的家（加）国情怀与表现 (香港中文大学 陈露明)
4. 本土身分的建構與反思──以阿濃的散文為例The Construction and Reflection of Local Identity: A Case Study of A Nong’s Prose (香港中文大學 馬輝洪/ 多倫多大學 梁恒達)

Thursday, May 17, 2012          9:00am-10:30am

1. Sources on Chinese overseas: traces in business archives at the Hung On-To Memorial Library of the University of Hong Kong (Edith CHAN, University of Hong Kong)
2. From Criticism to Mutual Support: Richmond Public Library’s Relationship with the Cantonese Speaking Community (Wendy JANG, Richmond Public Library)
3. Bilingual Metadata and Discovery – Don’t Let Your Chinese Archives Get Lost In Translation (Lilly LI and Allan CHO, University of British Columbia)
4. Telling the Story of the Chinese of California in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries: A Collaborative Online Exhibition (Theresa SALAZAR, University of California, Berkeley)
5. Library Marketing for Southeast Asia Chinese Overseas Special Collections: Transnational Discovery & Delivery (Virginia Jing-yi SHIH, University of California, Berkeley)

1. Intermarriage between the early Chinese immigrants and First Nations women (Senator Lillian Eva (Quan) DYCK)
2. Experiences of immigrant Chinese Women with Canadian Immigration and Settlement (1950-1990) (Senator Vivienne POY)
3. Chinese or Canadian: the Cultural Dynamic of Chinese-Canadians in Toronto (Jack H.T. LEONG, University of Toronto)

1. Exile and Imagined Homeland: Cultural Nostalgia and the Mainlander Native Place Associations in Taiwan, 1962-1987 (Dominic Meng-Hsuan YANG, University of British Columbia)
2. Overseas Chinese Refugees in the People’s Republic of China: A Neglected Field of Study (Glen PETERSON, University of British Columbia)

1. Colorado’s Celestials (Katie ADAMSON, University of Colorado Denver)
2. Chinese Chicago: Transnational Migration and Business, 1870s-1940s (Huping LING, Truman State University)
3. The Growth and Sustainability of Chinese American Nonprofit Organizations in U.S. Metropolitan Areas (Chi-kan Richard HUNG, University of Massachusetts)
4. Merchants, Students, and Laborers: The Intersections of Local, National, and Transnational History of Chinese America in New England, ca. 1840-1945 (Wing-kai TO, Bridgewater State University)

1. Immigration, Ethnicity and Diaspora Communities: The Study of Three Chinese Cultural Centres in Canada (Shibao GUO, University of Calgary)
2. Participation of Chinese Pioneers in British Columbia Salmon Canneries, 1880’s to 1920’s (Rudy M.T. CHIANG)
3. Chung Nye of New Westminster, B.C – A Canadian Story from the Perspective of Chinese Pioneers living in B.C. during the 1880’s to 1920’s (Rudy M.T. CHIANG)
4. A Page of Canadian History Retold in the Opera “Iron Road” (Ka Nin CHAN, University of Toronto)

1. 移民與難民：加拿大多倫多緬華社群的生活場域與文化實踐 (台灣國立歷史博物館 翟振孝)
2. 清末民国时期广东台山地方社会的变迁 (五邑大学 黄海娟)
3. 1980年后福州向美国的移民及其发展变化 (福建社会科学院 黄英湖)

Thursday, May 17, 2012        10:45am-12:15pm

1. Moving words and images: Chinese rare collections at UBC (Jing LIU, University of British Columbia)
2. Cambridge Chinese Rare Book and Manuscript Collections: Discoveries and Rediscoveries of Items Related to Robert Morrison and the Taiping Rebellion (Kang TCHOU, Cambridge University)
3. 論UBC亞圖所藏中文善本古籍的文物價值與文獻價值 (四川師範大學 管錫華 / 加拿大卑诗大學 吳欣欣)

1. Eileen Chang: Self-Translation of the Diaspora (Jessica Tsui Yan LI, York University)
2. Ethnicity in Transit: Eileen Chang, Translation, and Cold War America (Chris LEE, University of British Columbia)
3. Translation as Cultural Negotiation: On Eileen Chang’s Adaptation of her Own Novels (Xuanmin LUO, Tsinghua University& Jing WANG, Zhejiang Wanli College)

1. We’re not in Kansas anymore: Chinese Americans mirrored in picture books at Northeast Kansas Library System member libraries (Anna Ching-Yu WONG, Syracuse University iSchool)
2. 美国华人的多元认同及中国民众的反应：以骆家辉为例的分析 Multiple Identities of Chinese Americans and Responses from Chinese in Mainland China: A Case Study of Gary Locke (Yiping CHEN, Jinan University)
3. Chinese Gods in New American Homes? Material Religion, Rituals, and Community (Jonathan H. X. LEE, San Francisco State University and Vivian-Lee NYITRAY, University of California Riverside)

1. Where East meets Eastern: Chinese early migration to Atlantic Canada (James H. MORRISON, Saint Mary’s University)
2. Early establishment of the Chinese community in Halifax, 1890-1925 (Grace BELL, Saint Mary’s University)
3. The Lees: a Chinese family’s century in Halifax (Albert LEE, Chinese Canadian photographer)

1. 海外青田人社团与其乡缘意识的增生与回归 (暨南大学  高伟浓)
2. 八闽新侨觅缘踪  史海钩沉东西洋——庄国土教授主持编纂《福建新移民调查资料汇编》与《清代华侨史补充资料》中美国部分之析介 (厦门大学  张长虹)
3. 边缘的权力中心—新加坡潮人俱乐部醉花林的历史变迁与角色 (新加坡国立大学 李志贤)

Thursday, May 17, 2012        12:15pm-1:30pm

Thursday, May 17, 2012         1:30pm–3:00pm

1. The Current State of Chinese America: International Migration, Modes of Incorporation, and the Challenges of Success (Min ZHOU, University of California, Los Angeles)
2. Brain Circulation and Transnational Chinese: Highly Skilled New Migrants in China, Singapore, and Britain (Hong LIU, Nanyang Technological University)
3. 当代“地缘组织”的精英模式：日本华侨社会个案研究 (日本武藏野美术大学 廖赤阳)
4. The Transition and the Transformation of Chinatowns in Japan (Wei WANG, National University of Kagawa)
5. Multi-stream Flows Re-shaped Chinese Communities in Canada (Kenny ZHANG, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada)
6. New Chinese Migrant Community in Cambodia: A Fieldwork Report (James K. CHIN, University of Hong Kong)

1. Finding the Chinese-American Self in Scholarly Activities and Achievements (Shuyong JIANG, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
2. Organizational Action Makes the Visibility of Chinese American librarians (Lisa ZHAO, University of Illinois at Chicago)
3. Achievements, contributions and characteristics of Chinese American Librarians (Qi CHEN, Argosy University)
4. Diversity of Values in LIS Education in the United States (Ling Hwey JENG, Texas Woman’s University)
5. Dr. Hua-wei Lee and his contribution to Sino-American Librarianship (Huanwen CHENG & Lei WANG, Sun Yat-Sen University)

1. Literature of Chinese Immigrants in Canada (Macy ZHENG, McGill University)
2. Family Portraits in Asian North American Literature: Jean Kwok’s Girl in Translation and Sung J. Woo’s Everything Asian (Jennifer Junwa LAU, University of Toronto)
3. Coolie Encodings: representations of the coolie/emigrant figure in early 20th century Chinese fiction (Elizabeth Evans WEBER, University of California, Los Angeles)
4. Chinese Fatherhood as Alternative to Hypermasculinity in West Indian Fiction (Anne-Marie Lee-Loy, Ryerson University)

1. Kang Youwei’s Travels in Canada, the United States, and Mexico, 1899–1909 (Robert L. WORDEN, Library of Congress)
2. The United States as a Site for Baohuanghui Activism (Jane Leung LARSON, Baohuanghui Scholarship)
3. Kang Youwei in Canada and the Early Development of Baohuanghui in North America, 1899-1905 (Zhongping CHEN, University of Victoria)
4. Kang Youwei in Mexico (Evelyn HU-DEHART, Brown University)

1. The Forgotten Ties (Lily CHOW, Researcher & Writer)
2. A Journey to Serve:  A Chinese American Woman’s Service in the Canadian Armed Forces during WW II (Sharyne Shiu THORNTON, The International District Housing Alliance)
3. Nation State and Transnational Chinese Community in the Cold War: China and Indonesia, 1955-1965 (Taomo ZHOU, Cornell University)
4. The Intertwined History of Chinese in Cuba and the United States (Mary-Alice WATERS, Pathfinder Press)

1. Navigating the Doublespeak of Parental Involvement in Canadian Schools: Perspectives of Chinese Immigrants (Yan GUO, University of Calgary)
2. Teaching Mandarin Chinese to Heritage Learners in America (Whitney HAO, University of California, Riverside)
3. 文化传承与文化跨越研究 — 以20世纪80年代后华人新移民子女为中心 (暨南大学  鞠玉华)
4. 全美中文学校协会与美国华文教育(暨南大学 周聿峨)

Thursday, May 17, 2012        3:15pm – 4:45pm

1. “Chinese Canadian Stories”: a University – Community Collaboration Project (Allan CHO & Yu LI, University of British Columbia)
2. Preserving History and Exploring Resources: A  U.S. – China Experience (Ying XU, California State University)
3. My experience with the Ron Bick Lee collection as a young archivist (Qinqin ZHANG, University of Western Ontario)
4. Internment Notices in Newspaper Published in Cebu, Philippines: A Source for Chinese Bio-Profiles (Gyo MIYABARA, Osaka University)

1. Literary activities of early Chinese in Canada: the transformation of classical poetry in the Diaspora (Laifong LEUNG, University of Alberta)
2. 中国维度下的天使岛诗歌史诗性和文学性再认识Recognition of the Epic Quality and Literariness of the Poetry on Angel Island from the Chinese Dimension (暨南大学 易淑琼)

1. The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and China, 1884-1922 (Ying LIU and Tina BEBBINGTON, University of Victoria)
2. The Transpacific Fights of the Dare-to-Die Vanguard of the Overseas Chinese, 1915-1916 (Zhongping CHEN, University of Victoria)
3. Victoria Cheung and the War of Resistance against Japanese Imperialism (John PRICE, University of Victoria)
4. China’s State Farms for Returned Overseas Chinese: Models or Burdens? (Xiaorong HAN, Butler University)

1. Learning to play a public role through religions and politics:  Early Chinese women in North America (Bennet BRONSON)
2. Identity issues, Values, and Cultures as seen in Neillie Towers Yip, Sue Gee Jackman, and Jennie Wong Diment (Larry WONG)
3. Immigration Policies and Cultural Prejudice:  Ladies who crossed the boundaries – “prostitutes” in the Northwestern region before 1920 (Chuimei HO)

1. 海外客家人的文化认同 (嘉应大学 房学嘉)
2. 國家認同與國民觀念的重建–以美國舊金山華人社會對民國成立的反應為中心 (臺灣中央研究院 湯熙勇)
3. 从血统认同到利益认同—正确认识未来海外华人与中国的关系 (复旦大学 葛剑雄)
4. 地缘单位社会结构背景下的中国移民行为–以西班牙侨民为例 (Xiao FONG, Chinese Studies Center of Lu Xun and Eduardo Rubio ARDANAZ, University of Basque Country)

Co-hosted by the UBC Library and Ohio University Libraries, the 5th WCILCOS conference on “Chinese through the Americas” will be held May 16th-19th, 2012 at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.  In total 118 abstracts prepared by academic scholars and community researchers from 15 countries and regions (Canada, United States, Cuba, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Korea, United Kingdom, Spain, France, and Australia) were accepted. The tentative schedule of 36 panel sessions and the abstracts are now posted on the conference website.

The registration fee of CAD $168 will include two lunches and two dinners (opening and closing ceremony).  To encourage the younger generation to participate in the overseas Chinese studies, we are offering a discount to students (CAD $112).

The Organizing Committee also arranges a Vancouver one-day city tour on May 19 which will bring conference delegates and their families to visit the old and new Chinatown and other attractions of Vancouver.  Conference registrants will receive a discount.

For more information, please click here (registration) and here (conference schedule & abstracts).