Events at: Boardroom, Rm 231, C.K. Choi Building

Chinese Origins, Indonesian Audiences: Contemporary Sino-Indonesian Identity Politics in the Case of a Puppetry Genre

By: Dr. Josh Stenberg, postdoctoral fellow in UBC’s Theatre and Film Type: Brownbag lunch talk Abstract This presentation examines wayang potehi, a cloth glove puppet theatre of southern Fujian origin performed in Indonesian on Java among ethnic Chinese. Rooted in temple-based ritual puppetry practice, potehi (along with other public displays of Chinese culture) arrived on […]

Lunchtime Roundtable with Dr. Justin Jacobs on his New Book: Xinjiang and the Modern Chinese State

About the Book: The book views modern Chinese Political history from the perspective of Han officials who goverened Xinjiang. ‘This region, inhabited by Uighurs, Kazaks, Hui, Mongols, Kirgiz, and Tajiks, is also the last significant “colony” of the former Qing empire to remain under continuous Chinese rule throughout the twentieth century. Jacob’s narrative tracks Xingjiang […]

Japan’s Multilevel Water Governance Export to SEA

Abstract: This dissertation explores the effectiveness of water governance on administrative capacity through multi-stakeholder partnerships in the context of development cooperation. By applying multi-level governance approach, it analyzes complex governance coordination in water governance and how experts from Japanese cities, firms and development agencies promote norms within transnational networks through local level water development projects […]