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Chapman

Mary

Arts

French

Immigration, Chinese, Literature, Media, Politics, Sex/Sexuality, Teaching, Women's Issues

American Literature; social media; popular literature; periodicals; magazines; propaganda; turn-of-the-century Chinese Canada; suffrage; gender and politics; American modernism; women's 19th century novels; masculinity & sexuality in literature; poetry; gothic literature

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Chau

Shirley

Health & Social Development

Cantonese

Adolescence, Canada, Children, Culture, Health Care, Immigration, Immigration, Chinese, Mental Health, Multiculturalism, Racism/Race Relations, Stress, Work

Service utilization, service barriers, physical and social health of marginalized and vulnerable populations, wellbeing of service providers, social work practice, cross-cultural practice, homelessness, adolescents, child welfare, effects of violence, psychological trauma, stress, work and wellness, social policy, immigrants, Chinese seniors, multiculturalism

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Chiu-Duke

Josephine

Arts

Mandarin, Taiwanese

Asian Affairs, China, Government, History, Hong Kong, Human Rights, Immigration, Chinese, Politics, Taiwan, Women's Issues

Chinese and Taiwanese history, political thought, human rights, democracy, intellectuals

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Fung

Kenneth

Medicine

Chinese

China, Health Care, Hong Kong, Immigration, Chinese, Taiwan

Healthcare policy

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Gu

Xiong

Arts

Chinese

China, Culture, Ethics, Fine Arts, Immigration, Immigration, Chinese, Multiculturalism

Fine Art. Transcultural identity and hybridity. Through the critical angle of visual art, my work encompasses other elements such as sociology, geography, economics, politics, literature; and finally, the dynamics of globalisation, local culture and individual identity shifts. These shifts do not merely constitute a simple amalgamation of two original subjects, but instead, seek to create an entirely new space.

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Ho

Kendall

Medicine

Chinese, French

Aboriginal Issues, Asian Affairs, China, Computers, Computers in Education, Consumers, Continuing Education, Education, Government, Health Care, Hong Kong, Immigration, Chinese, Internet, Medicine, Multiculturalism, Research and Development, Teaching, Technology, Telecommunications

eHealth, knowledge translation, educational research, continuing professional development, interprofessional education, evidence informed policy, eLearning, global eHealth

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Khan

Nadia

Medicine

-

Culture, Health Care, Immigration, Chinese, India, Women's Issues

ethnicity and cardiovascular disease or cardiovascular risk factors,hypertension

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Laquian

Aprodicio

Community and Regional Planning

Pilipino

Abortion, Addictions, Anthropology, Architecture, Asian Affairs, China, Community Planning, Crime, Culture, Environment, Geography, Government, Health Care, History, Human Rights, Immigration, Immigration, Chinese, International Studies, Management, Multiculturalism, Politics, Pollution, Racism/Race Relations, Third World, Transportation, Urban Planning, Waste Management, Water

planning and governance of metropolitan areas, poverty alleviation, affordable housing, urban development in Asia with special focus on China, India,Vietnam, the Philippines, inner city redevelopment with focus on Vancouver's Down Town East Side, how to solve problems of slums in developing countries

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Lee

Michael

Medicine

Chinese

Depression, Disabled Persons, Immigration, Chinese, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Schizophrenia, Stress, Students, Work

campus mental helath, mental health awareness, vocational rehabilitation, occupational therapy, meaning of occupation, chronic mental illness, compassion fatigue, interprofessional education, internationally educated health providers, psychosocial rehabilitation

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Ley

David

Arts

-

Hong Kong, Immigration, Immigration, Chinese

cities, neighbourhoods, gentrification, ethnicity, immigration, housing

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Liu

Jing

Library, Archival and Information Studies

Chinese

Archives, Asian Affairs, China, Government, Immigration, Chinese, International Studies, Libraries

library, rare books, information on China

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Mok

Hiram

Medicine

Chinese

Asian Affairs, Brain, China, Depression, Education, Hong Kong, Immigration, Chinese, Mental Health, Multiculturalism, Psychiatry, Research and Development, Stress, Taiwan, Teaching

Mood disorders, depression in the medically ill, cross-cultural psychiatry

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Sadovnick

Dessa

Medicine

French

Aging, Alzheimer's, China, Genetics, Immigration, Chinese, Teaching

Alzheimer disease,Multiple Sclerosis,Genetic Epidemiology,Genetic Counseling,Genetics

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Shakya

Tsering

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Tibetan

Anthropology, Censorship, China, Culture, Defence, History, Human Rights, Immigration, Immigration, Chinese, India, Literature, Politics, Religion

Tibet, Himalayas, China's minority issues, China and India relationship, refugee issues,

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Yu

Henry

Arts

-

Canada, History, Immigration, Chinese, Multiculturalism, Olympics, United States

Asian migration to Canada, Chinese Canadian, Asian Canadian, Chinese in British Columbia, multiculturalism, racism, Global Vancouver, Asian American history, sports and race, Chinatown, Head Tax, United States

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Yuen

Eleanor

Asian Library

Putonghua and Cantonese

Hong Kong, Immigration, Chinese

Hong Kong issues, irregular migration; Chinese-Canadian issues, Asian Libraries in Canada

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Zhao

Jinhua

Applied Science

Chinese

China, Engineering, Human Behavior, Immigration, Chinese, Sustainability, Transportation, Urban Planning

transportation engineering, transportation planning, urban development in China, urban planning, intelligent transportation system

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