Tue, May 9th, 5:15 PM @ VIFF Centre - Vancity Theatre
Sun, May 14th, 3:15 PM @ The Cinematheque

Description: With the devastating economic impact of the pandemic and city redevelopment, Chinatowns in New York, Montréal and Vancouver search for innovative ways and resistance to keep their communities thriving. With lush verité footage of bustling Lunar New Year celebrations and warm social gatherings, filmmaker Karen Cho celebrates the vibrance of Chinatown communities. 

When: Monday, May 15th, 3-5pm PDT
Where: WCC 420 (Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue, SFU Downtown Campus, 580 W. Hastings St)
Details at: https://events.sfu.ca/event/35004-roundtable-discussion-a-hundred-years-later-asian

Published: April 27, 2023
Written by: Evan Halper and Maxine Joselow

"Solar companies have become the latest clean tech sector to find itself in the crosshairs as Democrats, in particular, grow anxious that taking anything other than a hard line against China will cost them voter support. Momentum in Congress is escalating to reimpose steep trade tariffs that were suspended by President Biden last summer, a White House effort to give the industry time to move supply chains onshore.
The outcome of this unfolding political drama could have major consequences — not just for solar energy companies, but also for homeowners hoping to add solar panels to their roofs, motorists wanting to charge electric vehicles with clean power and utilities trying to reduce their carbon footprints."

Published: April 29, 2023
Written by: Susan L. Shirk

"China's overreach doesn't have to lead to overreaction by America and a dangerous standoff between the two."

Published: May 3, 2023
Written by: Michelle Gomez

"The Tam Kung Temple on Government Street in Victoria was built in 1912. But its history goes back even further, according to Nora Butz, president of the Yen Wo Society, which manages the temple."

Published: May 1, 2023
Written by: John Pilger

"The responsibility I felt as a journalist was immense. I had witnessed the injustices and suffering delivered by the Depression, and I knew, we all knew, what was coming if silences were not broken.‘
Her words echo across the silences today: they are silences filled with a consensus of propaganda that contaminates almost everything we read, see and hear."

Published: May 2, 2023
Written by: Henry Heller

"The opposition of the US to China’s growing influence bases itself in the notion that there exists a rules-based order which the latter does not accept. Many find it difficult to understand what the rules-based order is. But it seems to hark back to the rules established at the end of the last great war when America laid down the rules on which its global dominance was based. This included dollar supremacy, open markets and the spread of liberal democracy. The American rules-based order meanwhile effectively excluded the development of the countries of the Global South which were crippled by the super-exploitation of labour and unequal exchange between themselves and the developed capitalist countries from whom they were forbidden to delink."

"When he visited Australia in 2014, Chinese president Xi Jinping said there was an ‘ocean of goodwill’ between our country and his. Since then that ocean has shown dramatic signs of freezing over. Australia is in the grip of a China Panic. How did we get here and what’s the way out?"

Published: June 2021

About the Author: David Brophy is a historian of Uyghur nationalism and the author of Uyghur Nation. He is a frequent commentator on the Xinjiang crisis and a senior lecturer on modern Chinese history at the University of Sydney.