York Centre for Asian Research (YCAR)
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YCAR faculty associate Thomas Klassen on the senior demographic and US politics. "The age of those holding executive, legislative and judicial power in Washington, D.C., sends a warning. American politicians are much more generous to the old than they are to the young. ... The aging of the political class illustrates how (old) age is now accepted in workplaces and more generally in the public domain." https://globalnews.ca/news/7453643/joe-biden-seniors-vote/

Politics of Corruption and State Transformation: Turkey and China Compared 24 Nov, 11am State-Capital Relations in Turkey under the AKP Rule: Corruption, Clientelism, or a New Form of State? Dr. Pnar Bedirhanolu, Associate Professor, Middle East Technical University, Turkey... Corruption and Anti-Corruption as Class Consolidation in Post-Socialist China Dr. Ceren Ergenç, Assistant Professor, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca//politics-of-corruption-tur/

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Himani Bannerji (Sociology) is the author of the recently published The Ideological Condition: Selected Essays on History, Race and Gender, part of Brill's Historical Materialism Book Series (Volume: 212). https://brill.com/view/title/59057 The reader comprises many of Bannerji’s English writings over a long period of teaching and research in Canada and India. She creates an interdisciplinary analytical method and extends the possibilities of historical materialism by predominantly drawing on Marx, Gramsci and Dorothy Smith. Congratulations Himani!

Yvonne Su (Equity Studies) is featured as one of three experts in the field of climate change and migration in a new education video series. The Big Climate Movement: Migration & Displacement in Times of Climate Change is a series of 11 bite-sized videos featuring Su, Caroline Zickgraf and François Gemenne of the Hugo Observatory, and eight young climate activists from seven countries. The series was made by an educational start up in Berlin and will be shown in classrooms a...round the world. Su speaks about her research on Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. You can access the series: https://www.youtube.com/watch

Jessica Tsui-yan Li’s (DLLL) new article, Fate, Reincarnation and Medicinal Cannibalism in Lillian Lee’s Dumplings, appears in Fate and Prognostication in the Chinese Literary Imagination (Brill, 2020). The essays in the edited collection deal with the philosophical, psychological, gender and cultural issues in the Chinese conception of fate as represented in literary texts and films, with a focus placed on human efforts to solve the riddles of fate prediction. https://brill.com/view/title/56797

Research Associate Zed Zhipeng Gao (Simon Fraser University) has recently published two articles concerning the roles of psychology and education in China’s socialist movement in the 1950s. Both projects received funding from YCAR. (1) From Empirical Observation to Social Intervention: The Marxization of Psychology in China, 19491958 examines how Chinese Marxist psychologists approached the issues of research methodology, human agency and value neutrality as part of the s...ocialist movement. https://journals.sagepub.com/d/abs/10.1177/1089268019880888 (2) ‘Gems Unwrought Can Form Nothing Useful’: Socialist China’s Pedagogical Erasure of Individuality, 19491958 discusses socialist China’s pedagogic treatment of individuality by examining the conflict between the principles of ‘all-round development’ and ‘teaching in accordance with aptitude’. https://www.tandfonline.com//10.1080/0046760X.2020.1748728&

Event of Interest Nov 23 | A New Age of Sino-US Higher Education Relations: Challenges and Opportunities with speakers including Qiang Zha (Education) https://scape.edu.hku.hk ... RSVP here: https://hku.zoom.us///tJAlde2hqjsvHde1nqJQ0dyUxD61g7yokGQK

Event of Interest Jamhoor invites you for the launch of Brewing Resistance: Indian Coffee House and the Emergency in Postcolonial India by Dr. Kristin Plys. With authoritarian regimes in firm control in India as well as around the world, it is critical to remember how people’s movements have fought for democratic rights and civil liberties before. Public spaces have been central to such mobilization, and it is especially appropriate to think about such spaces in the context... of a global pandemic and the re-emergence of restrictive measures this fall. Date: Saturday, October 24 Time: 12:00-2:00pm Eastern time (5pm GMT, 9:30pm IST) Register on Eventbrite (free): https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/brewing-resistance-from-emergen In this book, Plys recounts the little-known story of the resistance movement against the Emergency that brewed in New Delhi’s Indian Coffee House - a colonial institution that turned into a zone of social protest where workers and intellectuals alike gathered. This event will provide an accessible introduction to the events of the Emergency, drawing parallels with the current authoritarian turn, and discussing the role of students’ movements and coffee houses then and now. The goal is to think about how to take lessons from this history and connect them to ongoing struggles, engaging with activists today. There will be ample time for Q&A - attendees will be encouraged to un-mute and participate in the discussion. The time has been selected with a view to making this event accessible to participants across multiple time zones - we hope you will be able to attend! --- About Jamhoor Jamhoor is an independent media platform for artists, writers, activists, academics and others to share their work on South Asia. We aim to support critical left perspectives on South Asia and South Asians around the world.

KORE Event Translation and North Korean Literature, Film and Animation Conference (14 Oct) Details: https://kore.info.yorku.ca//translations-and-north-korea/

Call for Papers | Deadline: Tuesday, 20 October 2020 Translation of foreign official texts, and the translation of domestic official texts for foreign consumption, is important for governments in all nations. This conference will investigate current scholarly issues in the translation and interpretation of official texts in North Korea. The conference is broadly focused on the relevance of translation, from Korean and into Korean, of official documents speeches, news rele...ases, treaties and others in contemporary North Korea and how translation is constrained and influenced by ideology. This call for proposals is open to scholars from a range of disciplines whose research touches upon translation, propaganda and North Korea. Details: https://kore.info.yorku.ca/call-for-papers-translation-and/

In this latest Asia Research Brief, Zahra Nader (Doctoral Student, Graduate Programme in Gender, Feminist and Women’s Studies) investigates whether the use of the Facebook platform is helping Afghan women to create an alternative public space where they can engage in politics and be heard by their government. Download issue 38 here: https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/arb38-nader/

YorkU Event Bruce Mau (Founder, Bruce Mau Studio) will be in conversation with James Orbinski, Sarah Bay-Cheng, and Irene Chong. They will explore critical problem-solving as a way to address urgent global health challenges, with a focus on equity, effectiveness, and excellence. This event is the Dahdaleh Institute's latest step in exploring the intersections of design and global health. It takes place on October 20, 1:00 - 2:00pm EST.

Wednesday, 14 October 2020 | 7 PM Asian Heritage: A Spiritual Quest through the Creation of Poetry Dr. Lien Chao in conversation with Professor Leslie Sanders... *This event is co-organized by YCAR.

An engaging conversation between The Honourable Dr. Vivienne Poy and Jack Leong on Hong Kong, Canada, Mainland China and their relations. More: https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/perspectives-on-china-2oct2020/ (Photograph by Chiao Sun)

Book Launch: A Single Swallow by Zhang Ling / Translated by Shelly Bryant

*YCAR is a partner of Emergent Futures CoLab: https://ycar.apps01.yorku.ca/emergent-futures-colab/

KORE Event Translation and North Korean Literature, Film and Animation Conference (14 Oct) Details: https://kore.info.yorku.ca//translations-and-north-korea/