Papers by Jennifer J. Lau
Asian Review of World Histories, 2020
In this article, travel narratives by two late Qing diplomats, Zhang Deyi 張德彞 (1847-1918) and Fu ... more In this article, travel narratives by two late Qing diplomats, Zhang Deyi 張德彞 (1847-1918) and Fu Yunlong 傅雲龍 (1840-1901), are examined to explore global history from the perspective of Chinese travelers, revealing how discriminatory laws, imperial desires, mass migrations, power imbalances, and economic interests affected Chinese travelers who were distinct from other ethnic Chinese and non-ethnic Chinese itiner-ants traveling across the Pacific Ocean on the same ship and in the same era. Many of these Mandarin-speaking diplomats traveled on vessels with Cantonese-speaking ethnic counterparts, an indication of the multiplicity of "Chinese" migration experiences and distinct intraethnic encounters in the nineteenth century. This article shows how the embodied experience of Chinese travelers on ships affected not only the way they recorded the experience but also their understanding of the position of the Chinese empire with respect to the world at large.
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Facing China as a New Global Superpower: Domestic and International Dynamics from a Multidisciplinary Angle, 2015
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Talks by Jennifer J. Lau
It is 1987 and the waning years of British rule descend over Hong Kong with a mix of fear and exc... more It is 1987 and the waning years of British rule descend over Hong Kong with a mix of fear and excitement as one world power is eclipsed for another, eager to take its place and to make the city Chinese once again. In the Joint Declaration, Britain reluctantly hands over its last colony which would revert to Chinese rule starting fully in 1997. With that declaration comes the promise that the city will remain unchanged for fifty years. But upheaval is already happening in Diamond Hill. Once the “Hollywood of the Orient,” it is now a shanty town and an eyesore right in the middle of a glitzy financial hub. Buddha, a recovering heroin addict, returns home to find the shabby neighbourhood being bulldozed to make room for gleaming towers. Buddhist nuns, drug gangs, property developers, the government and foreign powers each have itchy palms, and all want a piece of Diamond Hill.
Kit Fan talks with Jennifer Lau about his hard-hitting and exhilarating debut novel, Diamond Hill, a requiem for a disappearing city, as well as a meditation on powerlessness, religion, memory, and displacement.
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This paper closely studies the travel accounts of two men from China, one who travels for leisure... more This paper closely studies the travel accounts of two men from China, one who travels for leisure and another who crosses the Pacific for scholastic exchange, between 1909 and 1925. The paper examines questions about border-crossing as ethnic Chinese men during the same era of restriction (1885-1923) and
exclusion (1923-1947) in North America. While Victoria was not a main point of interest on each traveller’s itinerary, how do the writings about the West Coast city construct Canada’s reputation for its contemporary audiences?
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Special Projects by Jennifer J. Lau
Curated by: Gaoheng Zhang (Italian Studies), Jennifer Lau (East Asian Studies), Paolo Frascà (Ita... more Curated by: Gaoheng Zhang (Italian Studies), Jennifer Lau (East Asian Studies), Paolo Frascà (Italian Studies) — University of Toronto
Sponsored by: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
With the support of: St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto (TORONTO) and Dante Society, Robson Square at the University of British Columbia (VANCOUVER)
This exhibition proposes multiple routes through which we invite you to experience the richness of Italian-Chinese relations, the longest-standing intercultural communication between Europe and China on written record. We also bring this experience home — how does Chinese-Italian communication thrive in the Greater Toronto Area?
Come and celebrate the Chinese-Italian transcultural past and present and help the two communities develop stronger ties in the future!
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Questa esposizione presenta diversi percorsi attraverso i quali vi invitiamo a conoscere l’abbondanza delle relazioni italo-cinesi, che costituiscono la testimonianza documentata più duratura fra Europa e Cina. Daremo un’occhiata anche al contesto canadese — come si articolano i rapporti tra la comunità italiana e quella cinese nella città metropolitana di Toronto?
Unitevi a noi nel celebrare il presente e il passato del legame transculturale italo-cinese, e contribuite alla crescita dell’amicizia fra le due comunità in futuro!
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中國與義大利之間的文化交流源遠流長。我們參考了目前可追遡的各種文獻,重整出中義交流的若干條路線,在這次展覧展出。另外,這次展覧亦對多倫多的中義關 係作出探檢,研究本地華人及義裔社團的演變和成長。 希望大家可以跟我們一同分享中國和義大利的過去和現在,並在將來進行更 緊密的交流!
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Book Reviews by Jennifer J. Lau
Jennifer Lau considers Lloyd Wong’s Trans-Pacific Mobilities: The Chinese and Canada, a collectio... more Jennifer Lau considers Lloyd Wong’s Trans-Pacific Mobilities: The Chinese and Canada, a collection of scholarly essays tracing the migration of people, ideas, and goods across the Pacific. Lau finds it “a useful and welcome anthology of ethnic Chinese in Canada and an introduction to the complex ebbs and flows of migration between the two spaces.” — Ed.
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Papers by Jennifer J. Lau
Talks by Jennifer J. Lau
Kit Fan talks with Jennifer Lau about his hard-hitting and exhilarating debut novel, Diamond Hill, a requiem for a disappearing city, as well as a meditation on powerlessness, religion, memory, and displacement.
exclusion (1923-1947) in North America. While Victoria was not a main point of interest on each traveller’s itinerary, how do the writings about the West Coast city construct Canada’s reputation for its contemporary audiences?
Special Projects by Jennifer J. Lau
Sponsored by: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
With the support of: St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto (TORONTO) and Dante Society, Robson Square at the University of British Columbia (VANCOUVER)
This exhibition proposes multiple routes through which we invite you to experience the richness of Italian-Chinese relations, the longest-standing intercultural communication between Europe and China on written record. We also bring this experience home — how does Chinese-Italian communication thrive in the Greater Toronto Area?
Come and celebrate the Chinese-Italian transcultural past and present and help the two communities develop stronger ties in the future!
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Questa esposizione presenta diversi percorsi attraverso i quali vi invitiamo a conoscere l’abbondanza delle relazioni italo-cinesi, che costituiscono la testimonianza documentata più duratura fra Europa e Cina. Daremo un’occhiata anche al contesto canadese — come si articolano i rapporti tra la comunità italiana e quella cinese nella città metropolitana di Toronto?
Unitevi a noi nel celebrare il presente e il passato del legame transculturale italo-cinese, e contribuite alla crescita dell’amicizia fra le due comunità in futuro!
—
中國與義大利之間的文化交流源遠流長。我們參考了目前可追遡的各種文獻,重整出中義交流的若干條路線,在這次展覧展出。另外,這次展覧亦對多倫多的中義關 係作出探檢,研究本地華人及義裔社團的演變和成長。 希望大家可以跟我們一同分享中國和義大利的過去和現在,並在將來進行更 緊密的交流!
Book Reviews by Jennifer J. Lau
Kit Fan talks with Jennifer Lau about his hard-hitting and exhilarating debut novel, Diamond Hill, a requiem for a disappearing city, as well as a meditation on powerlessness, religion, memory, and displacement.
exclusion (1923-1947) in North America. While Victoria was not a main point of interest on each traveller’s itinerary, how do the writings about the West Coast city construct Canada’s reputation for its contemporary audiences?
Sponsored by: The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
With the support of: St. Michael’s College in the University of Toronto, Department of Italian Studies at the University of Toronto (TORONTO) and Dante Society, Robson Square at the University of British Columbia (VANCOUVER)
This exhibition proposes multiple routes through which we invite you to experience the richness of Italian-Chinese relations, the longest-standing intercultural communication between Europe and China on written record. We also bring this experience home — how does Chinese-Italian communication thrive in the Greater Toronto Area?
Come and celebrate the Chinese-Italian transcultural past and present and help the two communities develop stronger ties in the future!
—
Questa esposizione presenta diversi percorsi attraverso i quali vi invitiamo a conoscere l’abbondanza delle relazioni italo-cinesi, che costituiscono la testimonianza documentata più duratura fra Europa e Cina. Daremo un’occhiata anche al contesto canadese — come si articolano i rapporti tra la comunità italiana e quella cinese nella città metropolitana di Toronto?
Unitevi a noi nel celebrare il presente e il passato del legame transculturale italo-cinese, e contribuite alla crescita dell’amicizia fra le due comunità in futuro!
—
中國與義大利之間的文化交流源遠流長。我們參考了目前可追遡的各種文獻,重整出中義交流的若干條路線,在這次展覧展出。另外,這次展覧亦對多倫多的中義關 係作出探檢,研究本地華人及義裔社團的演變和成長。 希望大家可以跟我們一同分享中國和義大利的過去和現在,並在將來進行更 緊密的交流!