Research
Read how they describe their research on their University of British Columbia profile.
Latest funding
- $25,000
Partnering with the City of Vancouver to Reshape the Representation of Its History: Developing the Collaborative Infrastructure for UNESCO World Heritage Site Nomination for Chinatown
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $199,058
Activating a Multi-sited Museum: an Innovative Organizational Model for Heritage and Community Knowledge-Making
SSHRC · 2018 · Principal investigator
- $2,496,476
From the ground up: East Asian religions through multi-media sources and interdisciplinary perspectives
SSHRC · 2016 · Co-investigator
No publications available.
Partnering with the City of Vancouver to Reshape the Representation of Its History: Developing the Collaborative Infrastructure for UNESCO World Heritage Site Nomination for Chinatown
Principal investigators: Yu, Henry S.N.
Keywords: Chinatown; UNESCO; history; heritage; intangible heritage; intangible culture; cultural innovation; cultural policy; historical memory; history education; public education; cultural tourism
Activating a Multi-sited Museum: an Innovative Organizational Model for Heritage and Community Knowledge-Making
Principal investigators: Yu, Henry S.N.
Keywords: Chinatown; heritage; Chinese Canadian; virtual reality; augmented reality; museum; Vancouver; British Columbia; Trans-Pacific; Pacific
From the ground up: East Asian religions through multi-media sources and interdisciplinary perspectives
Keywords: East Asian religions; interdisciplinary studies; Buddhism; folk religions; Shinto; Daoism; China; Japan; Korea; Vietnam
Cantonese Pacific in the making of the modern world
Principal investigators: Yu, Henry S.N.
Keywords: Cantonese; Canton; China; Chinese; Hong Kong; Vancouver; Toronto; Canada; migration; migrational effects; history; linguistics; real estate; education; language; ethnicity; ethnic diaspora; conference; partnership development; multidisciplinary; multisect
The rise and fall and rise again of Pacific Canada, 1858-2008
Principal investigators: Yu, Henry S.N.
Keywords: migration; immigration; China; Canada; trans-Pacific; head tax; exclusion; settlement; remittances; rural
Refracting Pacific Canada: New Directions in Research on Citizenship, Race and Migration
Principal investigators: Yu, Henry S.N.
Keywords: Canadian; literature; history; Asian Canadian; Pacific; migration; immigration; citizenship; multicultural
The Chinese Canadian migration project
Principal investigators: Ward, W. Peter
Keywords: Chinese migration; Chinese migrants; Canadian immigration; adult height; historical anthropometry; immigration patterns; financial remittances
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
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