BC China Scholars Forum brought together China specialists from across British Columbia on April 9th and 10th. Although I had reference shifts and the Asian Viola, I managed to present our rare book collection and gathered quite a lot feedback and suggestions. Alison said that there are about 250 of us in BC, many are not from traditional area studies fields. Some profs asked for my full paper, I will try to find time for it. Wonder if I shall submit to print publications in library or Asian Studies.
Prof. Bryant told me how he benefited from Puban when he studied at UBC. He even sent me a long email about some rare editions that he conducted research on in Asia and did the comparison with our Puban titles. Bless his heart! Will follow up. Thanks to Allan, we may enter the whole forum into cIRcle this year. Many good presentations, Kang Youwei in BC sounds fascinating to me, Prof. Brook’s research on the Ming daily life expenditure, the new mental health programs in China, and etc all attrated interesting discussion. Too bad, I missed the session more related to MAPPS, chaired by Prof. Cheek.
Bummed into Prof. Gu Xiong today, who reminded me his presentation “Becoming River” and the exhibition in MOA. At the end of the Forum, Prof. Gu gave me, Richard and Jeremy a special tour of MOA right before the Keynote. MOA was bright right and I enjoyed the sun set stroll and chat with the gentlemen. We saw the “river” made of thousands of little white boats, floating from the Pacific Ocean into MOA…
It’s my third visit and very different one. Riding a taxi with