About
Services
- Director, Centre of Chinese Research, Institute of Asian Research, UBC
- Co-Director, Canada & Hong Kong Project, Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, Toronto
- General editor, UBC Press Series on Modern China
- Research Associate, David See-chai Lam Centre, Simon Fraser University
- External advisor, Hong Kong Culture project, University of Hong Kong
- Fellow, St. John’s College, UBC
Research
Current Research Interests
Chinese migration, especially internal; Canada and Hong Kong connections; the Chinese military; the impact of warfare on Chinese society; regionalism in China, focusing on Shandong and Guangxi provinces; the Zhuang people of southern China; colour symbolism in Chinese culture.
Research Interests
- Modern Chinese history
- Internal migration in China
- Military history
- Regionalism
- Hong Kong
Publications
Books
D. Lary. (with Hans van de Ven and Stephen MacKinnon) Negotiating China’s Destiny in World War II. Stanford University Press, 2014.
D. Lary. China’s Civil War: the social history of a war, 1945-1949. Cambridge University Press, 2015.
D. Lary. Liuli suiyue 流离岁月(Translation of The Chinese People at War), preface by Bai Xianyong 白先勇, Shibao, 2015.
D. Lary. China’s Grandmothers. Cambridge University Press, 2022.
D. Lary. Chinese migrations: the movement of people, goods, and ideas over four millennia. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012.
D. Lary. The Chinese people at war: human suffering and social transformation, 1937-1945. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
D. Lary. China’s Republic. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
S.R. MacKinnon; D. Lary; E.F. Vogel. China at war: regions of China, 1937-1945. Stanford, Calif: Stanford University Press, 2007.
D. Lary; E. Academic C. Collection; C. Publishers CRKN. The Chinese state at the borders. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2007.
D. Lary. China’s Republic: New Approaches to Asian History v. 2. GB: Cambridge University Press – M.U.A, 2006.
D. Lary; S.R. MacKinnon. Scars of War: The Impact of Warfare on Modern China. : UBC Press, 2001.
T.R. Gottschang; D. Lary. Swallows and settlers: the great migration from North China to Manchuria. Ann Arbor: Center for Chinese Studies, The University of Michigan, 2000.
D. Lary. Recycled Labor Systems: Personal Connections in the Recruitment of Labor in China. : , 1997.
D. Lary; R. Kunin. Succeeding: Profiles of Chinese Canadian Entrepreneurs. Vancouver: Asia Pacific Foundation, 1997.
D. Lary. Dumb foreigners: language and cultural barriers to Canadian relations with Asia and the Pacific. Toronto: Joint Centre for Asia Pacific Studies, 1990.
D. Lary; S. Chi-kun; J. Lum. Canada and Hong Kong. Toronto: Ontario Centre for International Business, 1989.
D. Lary. Warlord soldiers: Chinese common soldiers, 1911-1937. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
D. Lary. Region and nation: the Kwangsi clique in Chinese politics, 1925-1937. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1974.
Articles/Book Chapters
D. Lary, “Writing and war: silence, disengagement and ambiguity”, in Journal of Literature and Trauma Studies, II, 1-2 (2014), pp.45-63.
D. Lary, “Canada-China relations in wartime China”, in Hans van de Ven, Diana Lary and Stephen MacKinnon eds., Negotiating China’s Destiny in Wartime China. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2014, pp.91-108.
D. Lary, “The military ascendant: the ascendancy of the Chinese military during the Resistance War (and after)”, in Kai Filipiak ed,, Civil-Military Relations in Chinese History. Routledge: London, 2014, pp.231-250.
D. Lary, “Canadian Christians at war in China”, in Li Shenwen et.al. edt., Rencontres et meditations entre la China, l’occident et les Ameriques (Quebec City: University of Laval Press, 2015), pp.369-381.
D. Lary, “Kangzhan qijian de shehui dongtang (Social upheaval in the Resistance War)”, Academia Historica Newsletter, special issue on war, Taibei, 2016, pp.17-39.
D. Lary, “Manchuria: history and environment”, in Norman Smith, ed., Empire and Environment in the Making of Manchuria. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2017, pp. 28-51.
D. Lary, (with Alexander Woodside), “Regarding China”, in Reflections of Canada: Illuminating our opportunities and challenges at 150+years. Vancouver: Peter Wall Institute, 2017, pp.76-80.
D. Lary, “Shengli dongliu (Going east in victory)“, in Huang Tzu-chin and Pan Kuang-che eds., ZhongRi zhanzheng yu Dongya bianju ((Taibei: Jindai lishi yanjou suo, 2018), pp.71-104.
D. Lary, “Memory Times, Memory Places: Memories and commemoration of war in China”, in Mark Frost, Daniel Schumacher and Edward Vickers eds, Remembering Asia’s World War Two (Routledge: London, 2019), pp.56-71.
D. Lary, “The Civil War in China: the social costs of war”. To be published shortly in Paris.
D. Lary, “Pacific Crossings: the early history of Canada China relations”, Behind the Headlines (Canadian International Council), 68, 10 (October 2020).
D. Lary, “The Guangxi Clique and Hong Kong: sanctuary in a warlord world”, in Colonial Hong Kong and Modern China, L. Pui-tak Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2005.
D. Lary, “The peoples experience: China”, in The Great World War 1914-1945, P. Liddle, Bourne, J., and Whitehead, I. London: Harper-Collins, 2001, pp. 164-181.
D. Lary, “The burdens of war: regional variations in the impact of war. Guangxi in the Sino-Japanese War”, in Zhonghua junshixuehui huilan, Taipei: , 2001, pp. 627-646.
D. Lary, “A Ravaged Place”, in The Scars of War , D. Lary and MacKinnon, S. R. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2001.
D. Lary, “Drowned Earth: the breaching of the Yellow River Dykes, 1938”, War in History, vol. VIII, no. 2, pp. 191-207, 2001.
D. Lary, “Defending China: the battles of the Xuzhou Campaign”, in Warfare in Chinese History, H. van de Ven Leiden: Brill, 2000, pp. 398-427.
D. Lary, “The ‘static decades’: inter-provincial migration in pre-reform China”, in Internal and International Migration: Chinese Perspectives, F. Pieke and Mallee, H. London: Curzon, 1999, pp. 29-48.
D. Lary, “Women at home/women in leadership: combining family and community roles for First Nations and immigrant women”, in Funu yu fazhan/Women in Development, J. Walls and Shusong, L. Beijing: Minzu daxue chubanshe, 1999, pp. 94-6, 127-130.
D. Lary, “Political participation amongst Chinese Canadians”, in The Last Half Century of Chinese Overseas, E. Sinn Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1998, pp. 217-228.
D. Lary, “Recycled labour systems: personal connections in the recruitment of labour in China”, in Economy and Culture: the Making of Capitalism in Eastern Asia, T. Brook and Van Luong, H. Michigan: , 1997.
D. Lary, “Hidden migrations: movement of Shandong people, 1949-1978”, Special issue of Chinese Environment and Development, 1997.
D. Lary, “Regions and nation: the present situation in China in historical context”, Pacific Affairs, no. Summer, 1997.
Additional
D. Lary, “Workshop on One Country Two Systems: What Happened? – Co-organiser”, Workshop on One Country Two Systems: What Happened. Vancouver, 2003.
D. Lary, “Workshop on Chinese Migration – Organiser”, Workshop on Chinese Migration. UBC, 2003.
D. Lary, “Workshop on the Taiwan Economy – Organiser”, Workshop on the Taiwan Economy. UBC, 2002.
D. Lary, “Conference on Wartime China: Regional Regimes and Conditions,1937- 45 – Co-organiser”, Wartime China: Regional Regimes and Conditions,1937- 45. Harvard University, 2002.
D. Lary, “Workshop on Hong Kong Culture – Initiator”, Workshop on Hong Kong Culture. 2001.
D. Lary, “Workshop on Chinatown: Past, Present and Future – Co-organiser”, Workshop on Chinatown: Past, Present and Future. UBC, 2001.
D. Lary, “Workshop on Chinese Migration – Organiser”. Peter Wall Institute, UBC, 2000.
Work in progress
Chinese Migration. Historical migration within China and on contemporary emigration from China, especially to Canada.
Canada and Hong Kong. The relationship between Canada and Hong Kong, especially in terms of migration.
War and Society. The impact of the Anti-Japanese War on Chinese society.
The Chinese Military. The role of the Chinese military in China’s recent past and present.
Guangxi Province
Colour symbolism in Chinese Culture