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Anne Murphy is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Chair of Punjabi Language, Literature and Sikh Studies. She is a cultural and intellectual historian whose work focuses on the Punjab region of India and Pakistan, with interests in language and literary cultures, the history of ...Read more

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I am a historian of modern Japanese material and visual culture. My research explores the ways Japan's social, political and cultural transformations shape photographic culture and the mass press; state implementations of photography and uses of photography against the state; the gendering of photog...Read more

Leo K. Shin is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Born and raised in the former British colony, Dr. Shin was for a brief period an education and political reporter for The Hong Kong Standard. Trained as a historian of China, he is inter...Read more

Shoufu Yin is an assistant professor of history at the University of British Columbia. His primary expertise lies in the intellectual and political cultures of China and Inner Asia from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries. Simultaneously, his interests extend to the global histories of politic...Read more

Timothy Cheek is a Professor with the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs and Department of History, Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research, and C0-Director of the Centre for Chinese Research at the Institute of Asian Research (IAR). He has been a professor at UBC since 2002. His research, teach...Read more