China
Book Nook: Xiran Jay Zhao’s Iron Widow series
January 30, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer Content warning: brief mentions of murder and war. Those familiar with Chinese history are probably no stranger to Empress Wu Zetian, the only legitimate empress of The Middle Kingdom. But, did you know there is a connection between Zetian and SFU? This connection is none other than Xiran Jay Zhao (the name may be familiar for those who frequent BookTok), an SFU health sciences alum whose fictionalized sci-fi duology reimagines Zetian. Their books, Iron Widow and Heavenly Tyrant, have both achieved number one spots on the New York Times bestsellers lists. To put into…
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The west is villainizing the Chinese government
March 20, 2023By: Karissa Ketter, News Editor Content warning: mentions of anti-Asian violence and racism. China has consistently been featured in western news for one reason or another these last couple years. Beginning with the COVID-19 outbreak, western media and government officials…
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Dr. Carman Fung discusses the transformation of tomboy identities
February 13, 2023By: C Icart, Staff Writer Dr. Carman Fung is a lecturer in the department of gender, sexuality, and women’s studies at SFU. They “study the lesbian secondary gender, ‘tomboy,’ across the transnational Sinophone world encompassing contemporary China, Taiwan, and Hong…
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SFU department of history hosts a conversation on Liu Xiaobo
June 17, 2021Written by: Kelly Chia, Staff Writer On May 27, 2021, SFU hosted an event featuring professors Jeremy Brown and Perry Link in a conversation. They discussed Link’s forthcoming biography, co-authored by Wu Dazhi. It is about Liu Xiaobo, a figure…
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Political Corner: Trudeau’s stubbornness in the Wanzhou extradition case is an incredible failure of duty
July 28, 2020By: Connor Stephenson, Peak Associate Our prime minister, Justin Trudeau, has shown clear negligence in his responsibilities as our leader in the mishandling of Huawei’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Meng Wanzhou’s extradition case. Despite a clear pattern of behaviour in Chinese…
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National security law for Hong Kong approved by China
June 10, 2020Written by: Michelle Young, Staff Writer China has approved a new bill to criminalize secession, subversion, terrorism, and foreign interference in Hong Kong. The law has yet to be drafted, as the process is expected to take a few months.…
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Political Corner: Heralding frontline nurses for working while pregnant hides systemic labour abuses in China
April 4, 2020By: Tianyi Wang, Graduate Student The World Health Organization declared that coronavirus was a global pandemic as of March 11. In addition to the increasing number of cases of viral infection, many social issues have been exposed during this extraordinary time that…
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We shouldn’t be normalizing the ethnocide of Chinese Uyghurs
October 26, 2019By: Mishaa Khan, Peak Associate Genocides and ethnic cleansing are not a thing of the past, and clearly neither are internment camps. In the province of Xinjiang in China, officials are currently holding an estimated 3 million Uyghur, Kazakh, and other…
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Opinions of the Hour
February 18, 2019Written by: Encina Roh, SFU Student “Mind your language, professors” – Liang Chenglu, China Daily Liang’s article is a sobering critique of Megan Neely, an assistant professor at Duke University, who sent an email regarding international students having conversations in…
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Political Corner: Canada is being put in the crossfire created by China’s conflict with the US
January 22, 2019Written by Kelly Grounds, Peak Associate In December 2018, the CFO of Huawei, a Chinese telecommunication and electronics company, was detained by Canadian authorities in Vancouver. Authorities detained the CFO, Meng Wanzhou, to assist US authorities seeking Meng on charges of fraud. Even though this…
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